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NBN Co implements a cloud-based

IT platform at unprecedented speed,to support Australias largest

infrastructure projectTo commence with the construction

of the countrys national broadband

network, a A$27 billion investment

financed by the Australiangovernment, NBN Co needed to

quickly design and build the

technical infrastructure necessary

to support the delivery of new

capabilities as well as supporting

the production operations and

maintenance for the companys

core business capabilities. Working

with Accenture, NBN Co now has an

IT platform, based on cloud

infrastructure, which is agile,

dynamic, reduces project delivery

time frames and increasesflexibility. The first application

release was completed within only

three months, supporting the

fastest ever roll-out of Oracle

E-Business Suite applications.

Business situation

During 2010, the company building

Australias National Broadband

Network, NBN Co, was working under

an aggressive timeline to establish in

14 months the companys core

business capabilities: financial

management, procurement

management and project

management; supply chain and asset

management; workforce management

and health and safety capabilities.

NBN Co needed an IT platform that

would support the design, build, test

and deployment of new systems, as

well as maintain the implementedapplications and capabilities.

Additionally, NBN Co had to provide

physical desktops, network services

and client operations services, and

these were likely to increase

significantly due to the increased

number of staff.

NBN Co turned to Accenture for help

to quickly mobilise a team that had the

technical infrastructure implementation

experience. Adding to this capability,

Accenture offered a suite of cloud

services that would allow a fast and

flexible infrastructure for the early

stages of the program.

How Accenture helped

Working together, Accenture and

NBN Co developed a staggered

approach to design and build the

infrastructure. This consisted of two

stages: first, a package standard

approach was adopted to implement

the IT infrastructure recommended by

the third-party vendor. The main

objective of this phase was to

consolidate and rationalise the IT

infrastructure. Then, the joint NBN Co

and Accenture team opted for a

virtualised private cloud strategy.

This approach resulted in reduced

installation requirements and

hardware commissioning tasks,

which in turn reduced the number of

IT personnel required to maintain

the system.

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This case study is one of a series of seven that tell how Accenture helped build key capabilities for NBN Co.

The team then supplied numerous

production and non-production

technical environments for a wide

variety of applications on very short

notice for the following purposes:

To support the implementation of

all software applications to be

deployed in the future on an

ongoing basis. The infrastructure

was designed to be flexible in order

to meet roadmap requirements for

different applications that were to

be delivered at different points in

time. The implementation approach

required 30 separate IT

environments for applications

implementation and integration,

disaster recovery and rapid-

access delivery.

To support the maintenance of theproduction operations. In this case,

the technical infrastructure required

scalability rather than flexibility. As

new applications were being

delivered, the predetermined

infrastructure would extend to

support the new capabilities vital to

a growing organisation.

To help ensure that the solutions

performed as intended in the

production environments, the team

instituted a rigorous gating process.

Application development was

regulated by checklists in order to

verify that releases conformed to

production environment standards,thus helping to ensure expedited

deployment and to prevent

compatibility issues.

High performance delivered

NBN Co now has an IT platform,

based on cloud infrastructure, that is

agile and dynamic, which reduces

project delivery time frames and

increases flexibility. NBN Co achieved

its first application release within three

months from the start of the project in

April 2010, supporting the fastest ever

roll-out of Oracle E-Business Suite

applications. Over the following 15

months, the team provided the IT

infrastructure required to deliver 10

major application releases.

By mid-2011, delivery time was

reduced to two weeks for non-

production environments and three

weeks for production environments.

Between April 2010 and October 2011

35 Linux server environments were

stood up, leveraging on 550 virtual

machines and databases.

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