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Ardian chooses Activeo and Cisco to boost performance

"UC Care is a real asset for our organization. The solution allows local IT teams to be autonomous in certain support and administration tasks, freeing them from the Paris head office."
Ardian - Charles ARGANT
Charles ARGANT
IT Service Manager for infrastructure and work place at Ardian
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Ardian

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Founded:
1996
year of collaboration:
2015
Location:
International
Employees:
430
Industry:
Investment capital
Solution:
UC Care

Since its creation in 1996, Ardian, a private equity company (formerly Axa Private Equity), has been investing in unlisted companies and managing assets on behalf of third parties.

With operations in Europe, North America and Asia, Ardian employs over 430 people in 12 offices worldwide.

"It was in 2013, when Ardian became independent, that we left Axa's infrastructure and wanted to replace our aging and fallible systems. We then decided to launch the Telephony over IP migration and deployment project as we renovated and modernized our sites."

At the end of 2015, Activeo responded to the call for tenders and won the project against two other competitors.

"We chose Activeo for the quality of its response, its eagerness to support us and its ability to develop the use of collaboration."

The value proposition includes the Cisco Unified Communications solution, messaging and directory functionalities, fax to mail, unity and jabber to facilitate accessibility, as well as UC Care, an application published by Activeo that simplifies the operation of the overall solution.

"UC Care is a real asset for our organization. The solution allows local IT teams to be autonomous in certain support and administration tasks, freeing them from the Paris head office."

"Tomorrow, we intend to promote the collaborative synergy of our systems - telephone and video - in the broadest sense of the term, to enhance the working comfort of our users wherever they are and whatever their preferred "device"".

Ardian’s employees are cosmopolitan, nomadic and highly involved; we have to be agile and responsive to users at all times.

"Activeo's expertise and flexibility are real assets in supporting us over the long term."

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