CDW Case Study Sample

Recruiting and job seeking are networking processes based on shared databases of candidates and opportunities. This makes reliable, high-performance and affordable connectivity across all of CareerBuilder's international locations a strategic advantage. In essence, data sharing and telephone relationships are the recruiting firm's stock in trade

Going into 2006, CareerBuilder's network and telecommunications infrastructure was decentralized, a result of the firm's acquisition of other companies in recent years, as well as what had been a conventional approach to telecommunications service during the company's infant stages. Each location was on a discrete contract, some with providers that served only that one location, and there was no unified convention for connecting colleagues between locations. Every inter-location call required dialing out of the local system, incurring significant costs in long distance fees, but also compounding the inconvenience of the system. Beyond such operating issues, the billing for each location was separate, providing no centralized operating statistics or cost analysis other than what CareerBuilder could produce with a significant investment of internal staff time.

The company at this state had grown to a total of 33 sites, including three data center and five regional offices, with IT staff in four locations. The company's growth plans demanded scalability of the new system