It’s easy for Denmac to tell you why we think we should work together. Our customers actually do a better job. Here’s what just a few have to say.
Briggs and Stratton is the world's largest producer of air-cooled gasoline
engines for outdoor power equipment. A recently acquired division was
using Microsoft Exchange instead of Briggs and Stratton's corporate standard
Novell GroupWise. Inconsistencies in scheduling, calendaring, and
addressing created barriers to collaboration between the new division and the
rest of Briggs and Stratton. Having work with Denmac for over 14 years,
they asked us to help consolidate the environments.
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“Denmac has been a
trusted partner for many years. They understand our business and we depend
on them to deliver meaningful business results. This was a highly visible
project throughout the organization and we know that projects of this nature can
be tricky even with the best planning. Denmac did a great job in executing and
managing the project.”
Jay Schaffer, IT Technology Manager, Briggs and Stratton
A name recognized around the world, Master Lock is the largest global
manufacturer and marketer of padlocks. After 64 years in their Milwaukee,
Wisconsin location, Master Lock was moving to a new facility in Oak Creek,
Wisconsin. With over 750 employees, the challenge was determining how to
build a voice-over-IP enabled LAN network, move the WAN, re-route the telephony
network, and migrate the data center with minimum disruption. Having
worked with Denmac on a number of previous projects, Master Lock asked Denmac to
head up the LAN/WAN infrastructure and data center aspects of the move.
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“This was a high
profile project that needed to be done seamlessly, or pretty darn close to it.
Having worked with Denmac on previous projects, I had the trust that they would
get the job done right. This is the type of project where experience
counts and it showed in how well they designed the environment and managed the
project to get us there. From the planning and details, to the communication and
collaboration with other vendors. The project was a tremendous success and
I am extremely pleased.”
Barry Jondahl, Technical Services Manager, Master Lock
The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA) owns the McCormick Place
complex, including McCormick Place Hyatt Regency and Navy Pier. They seek to
promote tradeshow, conventions and public events to Chicago, in an effort to
strengthen the city, state and regional economies. Their goal was to be the most
technologically advanced exposition center in the nation. This demanded a
network that was reliable, scalable, customizable, high performing, able to
guarantee any bandwidth - and it need to protect both the exhibitors and the MPEA from intentional or accidental compromised to their environment. MPEA
asked Denmac to build their next generation tradeshow floor. Read the full
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“Our show floor network at McCormick Place
and Navy Pier cannot be down - "Period". At MPEA, we demand the highest
level of performance and reliability from the technologies that we've invested
in. There are only a handful of people we trust to help us design,
implement and change this environment. Denmac is one of those trusted
partners that deliver the quality and value that we need to be successful.”
Richard Piotrowski, Director, Technology Services, Metropolitan Pier and
Exposition Authority
Headquartered in Chicago, IL, JC Whitney & Co. is America’s premier source of “Everything Automotive.”
Maintaining their competitive edge hinged in part, on having the technology in
place to support their needs for today and the growth of tomorrow. After
seven years of reliable performance, the existing shared service environment
was in need of a complete overhaul. JC Whitney called on Denmac (we had
designed and built the original infrastructure) to develop a strategy to
upgrade their shared service environment to one that provides better
performance, better reliability and fault tolerance, and is easier to maintain
and support. Read the full
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“Like most companies, if our network goes
down, our company stops. We realized that it was time to upgrade our
file, print, and e-mail environments in order to continue providing the
invaluable services that JC Whitney needs to function. This massive
migration would have to be done right the first time. . . so we turned to a
business partner we could trust, Denmac.
We were familiar with Denmac's technical
expertise and results-oriented methodologies from prior projects, and we could
afford no less in accomplishing our current goal. The results speak for
themselves - we have a rock solid shared services infrastructure that has
positioned us for the growth we are anticipating. The project was a
wonderful success.”
Gary Johnson, Director of Computer Services, JC Whitney & Co.
Consumers Cooperative Credit Union (CCCU) is one of the largest credit
unions in Illinois, offering an extensive array of products and services
geared to meet the specific financial needs of their members. Their
computing environment based on Citrix and thin client terminals had served
them well for over four years, but the technology was now outdated,
resulting in performance bottlenecks and outages. Denmac partnered
with CCCU to re-architect their environment, leveraging the latest in
hardware technology, managed desktops, and server management.
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“Denmac has transformed our entire desktop
and Internet computing environment, allowing us to be much more nimble in
meeting the needs of our members and employees. They worked closely
with us in identifying our needs, designing a solution, testing, and
implementing it. We are very happy with the results."
Jim Benlein, Information Systems Director, Consumers Cooperative Credit
Union
ACCO Brands, Inc., a subsidiary of Fortune Brands, Inc., the consumer products company (NYSE:FO), partnered with Denmac when their business expanded to 15 offices. According to Steve Paolella, Network Engineering Manager of ACCO, the company’s Novell NetWare 3.x infrastructure would not scale to meet the growth. ACCO selected Denmac to engineer a NetWare 4.x & 5.x solution leveraging NDS to meet this challenge.
Denmac's NDS design is one of the most stable and trouble-free implementations we have ever experienced,” stated Steve. “We view Denmac engineers as experts in Novell and NDS design and implementation and as some of the most competent engineers we have worked with,” Steve adds. “Denmac has provided us with real-world perspectives on technologies to successfully leverage the network as a strategic asset. This has proven to be valuable within our company and, as a result, we will continue to partner with Denmac to grow and maintain our network.”
Steve Paolella, Manager, Network Operations, ACCO Brands, Inc.
A name recognized around the world, Master Lock is the largest global
manufacturer and marketer of padlocks. After 64 years in their Milwaukee,
Wisconsin location, Master Lock was moving to a new facility in Oak Creek,
Wisconsin. With over 750 employees, the challenge was determining how to
build a voice-over-IP enabled LAN network, move the WAN, re-route the telephony
network, and migrate the data center with minimum disruption. Having
worked with Denmac on a number of previous projects, Master Lock asked Denmac to
head up the LAN/WAN infrastructure and data center aspects of the move.
The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA) owns the McCormick Place
complex, including McCormick Place Hyatt Regency and Navy Pier. They seek to
promote tradeshow, conventions and public events to Chicago, in an effort to
strengthen the city, state and regional economies. Their goal was to be the most
technologically advanced exposition center in the nation. This demanded a
network that was reliable, scalable, customizable, high performing, able to
guarantee any bandwidth - and it need to protect both the exhibitors and the MPEA from intentional or accidental compromised to their environment. MPEA
asked Denmac to build their next generation tradeshow floor. 
Headquartered in Chicago, IL, JC Whitney & Co. is America’s premier source of “Everything Automotive.”
Maintaining their competitive edge hinged in part, on having the technology in
place to support their needs for today and the growth of tomorrow. After
seven years of reliable performance, the existing shared service environment
was in need of a complete overhaul. JC Whitney called on Denmac (we had
designed and built the original infrastructure) to develop a strategy to
upgrade their shared service environment to one that provides better
performance, better reliability and fault tolerance, and is easier to maintain
and support. 
Consumers Cooperative Credit Union (CCCU) is one of the largest credit
unions in Illinois, offering an extensive array of products and services
geared to meet the specific financial needs of their members. Their
computing environment based on Citrix and thin client terminals had served
them well for over four years, but the technology was now outdated,
resulting in performance bottlenecks and outages. Denmac partnered
with CCCU to re-architect their environment, leveraging the latest in
hardware technology, managed desktops, and server management.
ACCO Brands, Inc., a subsidiary of Fortune Brands, Inc., the consumer products company (NYSE:FO), partnered with Denmac when their business expanded to 15 offices. According to Steve Paolella, Network Engineering Manager of ACCO, the company’s Novell NetWare 3.x infrastructure would not scale to meet the growth. ACCO selected Denmac to engineer a NetWare 4.x & 5.x solution leveraging NDS to meet this challenge.
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