HOME | CONTACT US
 
   FR | NL
Profile & References
Business Cases
 
 
 
WASLET has worked on a wide range of security, storage or printing projects.

The cases featured below demonstrate our ability to address new business challenges, as well as to protect IT infrastructures and lower costs across a variety of business sectors.
A selection of business cases
 

High street brand Cassis Paprika, strong of 105 shops in Belgium, offers prêt-à-porter garments targeting active women in their thirties. The aim has always been very clear for the company: to give its clients the best service they can get in the market. To do this, it has relied heavily on its IT solutions... yet without the use of an IT department ! Doesn't this sound like an impossible paradox?
Instead of having to manage these services internally, Cassis Paprika has chosen to externalise them, thereby addressing concerns about security and availability. For instance with their HP LeftHand virtual storage solution deployed by Waslet IT.

French - Dutch
 

The Messer Group is one of the leading industrial gas companies, operating over 60 companies throughout Europe, Asia and Peru and employing around 5.000 employees worldwide. The company’s Belgian facility called on the services of leading systems integrator and services provider WASLET IT and Canon’s consultancy team, to introduce a new highly automated invoicing solution in their existing ERP. Canon’s IRISCapture™ invoicing solution significantly increased operational efficiencies within the accounting department, reducing manual errors and increased processing speed while meeting the objectives of saving both time and money.

English
 

When the caring personnel of the “Clinique et Maternité Sainte Elisabeth” can gain time doing their administrative tasks, all the benefits are for the patients. Waslet IT implements an IT tool that helps realize this ambition.
 The paramedical personnel takes care of the input of the different activities or observations. Previously, this input was done on laptops in the rooms of the medical staff. It didn’t take long to realize that this wasn’t optimal and that the caring personnel had to travel too much between the patient’s room and their own staff room. Today, “thin client” terminals have been installed in the hallways. Thanks to this, the number of entry points has multiplied and the caring personnel can input the data as soon as they leave the patient’s room. The gain in time is considerable, time that can now be spent on the patient.

French - Dutch
 

IT on wheels at FEBIAC ! The Belgian federation of car and cycling industry decides to review its IT infrastructure thoroughly.
 10 out of 45 FEBIAC people work in the IT department. Jean-Luc Malfait, Data Services Manager at FEBIAC : “Our data treatment capacity is extremely important, it’s our core business. The services that we offer to our members are getting more and more diversified. They constantly evolve with the changes in technology and society, more specifically everything around environmental issues. We need reliable, flexible and energy efficient tools. The management of the disk space wasn’t optimal, there were issues with the backups, development didn’t go smoothly because all servers were aimed at production and the control of the 7 maintenance contracts was pretty heavy on the administration. A request for proposal was made and 6 possible suppliers were asked to respond to this request. Waslet IT Services & Solutions was the winning supplier.

French - Dutch
 

A new infrastructure for better centralized and secured data at KESAR.
With over 50 persons in Belgium and 15 independent agents in different countries, Kesar (‘Mais il est où le Soleil ?’) is the second largest growing company in its category which is prêt-à-porter. The company moved to a new location in the capital. This was the ideal moment to align the IT to this new situation. The goal was to centralize the data which was scattered over different servers into one location, an HP MSA 2000 SAN. WASLET IT also took advantage of the new cabling to implement a new HP Procurve network switch. This combination of SAN/Switch brought a real boost in performance for all persons at Kesar needing access to this data. Waslet IT also proposed a modified storage solution. The data are saved on the SAN before being transferred to an HP StorageWorks LTO library.

French - Dutch
 

WASLET IT steers the PSA HNN print infrastructure into calm waters.
PSA HNN is part of PSA International, one of the top-ranked companies in container handling. The company operates five container terminals at the port of Antwerp, handling around seven million units (TEU ) last year. In conjunction with HP and WASLET IT, PSA HNN completed an ambitious consolidation project in which the original 586 printers were replaced by 210 HP machines with only 8 different types. This has made central remote management possible and costs have become more transparent.

French - Dutch -  English
 

The Belgian architects association ASSAR calls upon to the system architect WASLET IT.
The IT partner installs a solution combining reliability, performance, energy savings, evolution and scalability, both for the servers and the storage. The backup policy is being redefined and the performance of the servers is increased. In the course of 5 years, an energy saving of 12.000 € is calculated.

French - Dutch   
 

A powerfull and homogeneous IT infrastructure.
FIB, elected “Company of the year 2008” by Ernst & Young, decides to invest in a homogeneous IT park as a stable basis for the development of a VPN and the implementation of an ERP package. For the audit and implementation, FIB calls on WASLET IT, preferred thanks to its reputation in this domain. The solution consists of 4 HP Proliant DL servers (SQL, Backup, File & Mail) and 1 HP MSA2000 SAN. The partner takes care of the migration of the existing data and applications, and also the installation of the Exchange 2007 mailsystem.

French - Dutch   
 

Cogen Employees save a couple of hours every month thanks to digital archiving system.
Cogen, established in Nivelles, chiefly translates machine manuals for its customers in many different languages. The 40 employees save a lot of documents in their mailboxes. Completed projects are stored in triplicate on CD and DVD for at least seven years costing the company considerable time and money. Thanks to a digital archiving system with DiskXtender, EmailXtender and an EMC Centera of four terabyte, the problems with exploding mailboxes and time-consuming archiving have gone once and for all.

English   
 

Securex supplies services to businesses, self-employed people and individuals as a specialist in social management.
The company has about 1.500 staff in Belgium, France and Luxembourg. The employees of Securex are sending more and more e-mails with large attachments. They are also saving them for increasingly longer periods, often because they are obliged to for legal reasons. So Securex had to keep on extending the storage space for the mailboxes, and performing backups and restores took a lot of time. Assisted by WASLET, Securex installed EmailXtender, EMC's software for archiving e-mails. The business benefits are smaller mailboxes, faster backup and restore and better Return on Investment.

English   
 

American Express, WASLET and Xerox : A global migration plan of the printer fleet.
American Express is currently present in over 130 countries and has succeeded in becoming one of the worldwide leading companies in the area of payment and credit cards. At Amex Belgium, the printing equipment mainly consisted of personal printers of various brands. Henny Koense, Facilities Manager Benelux, decided to start a global migration plan in order to harmonise this equipment. To make this plan a full success, H. Koense calls upon WASLET IT Services and Solutions who performs an ODA (Office Document Assessment). The personal printers and copiers are being replaced by Xerox multifunctions, connected to the network. The first savings amount to 33%. By the end of 2007, the network will be made more performing by migrating to an Active Directory environment. New document flow management tools will be deployed (scan-to-mail) and the colour production of marketing documents will again be done within the company. Additional savings up to 7% are being foreseen by the end of this year.

French - Dutch   
 

For L’Oréal, WASLET and Xerox are working with the cosmetics giant to form a triumvirate aimed at reducing document costs at L’Oréal by 25% by the end of 2006.
L’Oréal is the undisputed leader in cosmetics in Belgium and Luxembourg and the organisation is based around three main entities: L’Oréal Belgilux N.V., L’Oréal Produits de Luxe N.V. and Cosmétique Active Belgilux N.V. Over the years, each of these entities has grown. Taken together, they employ approximately 360 people at their administrative headquarters in Anderlecht. This extraordinary company has opted for the solution proposed and implemented by WASLET IT Services & Solutions and Xerox. This solution involves the gradual replacement of L’Oréal’s existing assorted office equipment with colour multifunctionals connected to the L’Oréal network.

French - Dutch   
 

Kraft Foods Namur: The right ingredients for an IT environment upgrade.
As the years pass, a company's IT infrastructure can sometimes become diluted with different systems, hardware and software. It is at times like this that the whys and wherefores need to be realigned and is precisely why Kraft Foods Namur called in WASLET IT Services & Solutions to come and sort out the problem.
In addition to harmonising and upgrading the platforms, WASLET was also asked to reorganise Kraft’s servers, storage equipment and backup environment. As a result, a more uniform and powerful structure was created by implementing a SAN based on the technology and stability of HP platforms.

French - Dutch   
 

Banque Degroof: The robustness of clustering technology.
Banque Degroof’s active acquisition policy, as well as increasing numbers of PCs and servers, plus the need to guarantee increasing levels of availability to both applications and customers were the principal factors that prompted the bank to seek a more up-to-date solution that delivered enhanced performance. The system also needed to be better suited to supporting the Degroof intranet, as well as the functions of file serving in cluster configurations and application development. A first step towards creating a SAN came with the purchase of an MSA 1000, which provides a high level of availability and continuity using existing equipment.

French - Dutch   
 

DaimlerChrysler opts for SAN, the great data orchestrator.
For an industrial sector to evolve satisfactorily these days, major infrastructure and IT solution challenges are involved. So when DaimlerChrysler decided to adopt a proactive approach to managing its commercial and other types of information, the solution implemented was based on the principles of SAN (Storage Area Networks), as well centralising information and management, and digitising documents.

French - Dutch   
 

Agence Belga: The key to new information technologies.
Relaying information over proprietary systems is now a thing of the past. These days, Agence Belga is on the threshold of a new era in which the Internet will play a key role, with all that this implies in terms of the immediate and constant availability of information.

French - Dutch