business analysis consulting project borealis infrastructure

Business Analysis Consulting ProjectBOREALIS INFRASTRUCTURE

About the Company

Pioneer and recognized leader in Infrastructure Investing

What they do =

About the Company

Diverse Staff of approximately 50 people

Offices : Toronto, London , UK first group formed by a Canadian

pension plan with a mandate to invest in infrastructure as a separate asset class.

approximately C$7 billion invested 20+ investments = value of in

C$40 billion

Accountants

Engineers

Lawyers

Finance Professional

What they do

Invest in Traditional and non- traditional infrastructure sectors Business/ assets exhibiting monopolistic qualities Stable Cash Flows

OMERS - Acts as the infrastructure investment arm.

A Canadian pension plan with $50 billion in net investment assets

They secure and deliver the pension promise given to beneficiaries of OMERs pension plan

Examples of Sectors

Energy – Electricity, Pipelines transmission/distribution

Transportation – Roads, bridges, tunnels

Communications – Data and voice, satellites and cable

Water – Wastewater plants, distribution systems

Satellite Communication – data and voice satellites

Examples of Sectors

Management Strategy

Employ an active and direct-drive strategy Do this by seeking meaningful stakes in assets

Prefer to invest in: Large mature operating assets requiring an equity

investment of at least C200$ million They do evaluate and participate in both Greenfield

opportunities and smaller investments

Management Philosophy

Motivates the employees to avoid short term decision making at the investment stage

Responsible for all Decisions during the whole investment process

Management Philosophy (cont)

Senior Management

Team

One Member from this team were involved in each asset & Investment Opportunity

Deep Set of Investment

Professionals

Focus in a particular

infrastructure sector

Broad Skill set

Team Members have full Support of Borealis’ accounting, finance, credit and legal support teams.

PUT IN THE MAN (niwaz)

Current Technology & Processes

Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Exchange Email

Server

Current Technology & Processes (cont.)

VOIP Phone System Cisco Routers Firewalls Web Development

Current Technology & Processes (cont.)

Network design Architecting Visual basic programming

Current Processes IT Department is responsible for:

Technology Deployments Setting new technologies Support Troubleshoot end-user problems

Problems I Employees complain

about having to take a laptop around everywhere, they want something more portable

Problems II Security problem with documents

being changed on the server Those who are authorized to

make changes can make them and reverse them without it being documented

Internal audit wants the company to have an auditable change management routine/process

Problems III Too much time and

money is wasted when manually looking for documents concerning investments, legal documents and etc. on the company’s server

Problems IV Slow communications problem between

head office (Toronto, Borealis Infrastructure) and remote office (UK, Borealis Infrastructure)

Remote office in UK needs information from head office in order to complete operations

Solution I Blackberry Playbook

Solution I Blackberry Playbook Features

Enterprise Ready Business Driving Multitasking Device Pairing HD Video Camera Adobe Flash compatible Bluetooth

Solution II Symantec Security Information Manager

(SSIM) Key Benefits

Optimize budget options for hardware acquisition Leverage existing hardware

investments/maintenance contracts Increase scope of security data included in

intelligence gathering Automate collection, analysis and delivery of

compliance evidence

Solution II Symantec Security Information Manager

(SSIM) Key Benefits contd.

Save time not having to customize reports Easy reporting Reduces administration of rules maintenance

and can reduce number of rules needed Increases detection of multidimensional user

access activities

Solution II Symantec Security Information Manager

(SSIM) Key Features

Supports virtual environment deployments Soft appliance deployments Custom log management/universal

collectors Over 150 out of box compliance reporting

templates Multi-conditional correlation rules

Solution III & IV Ademero Document Management System Key Benefits

Organizes data on network Provides security for information Communication line speed between Toronto

& UK offices increases dramatically Helps workflow, content retrieval & transfer

of documents between the offices

Solution III & IV Ademero Document Management System Key Features

Document capture, retrieval & management simple with Content Central™.

Captures documents: through scanning & transferring of electronic files

Manages documents Find documents

Questions?

About your speakers: Names: Ameerah Razac, Nikhita

Rele, Niwaz Mann, Toloue Ghasemloo

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