Technology Consulting Case Studies
Making Networks Work: The Barclays Center
How Burwood turned into reality Forest City Ratner’s unified technology vision for a highly connected, state-of-the-art modern sports arena.
What is speed to value?
To meet today’s business demands, enterprise IT teams must be able to support an increasing pace of change. Company profitability, customer experience, and application innovation are all exponentially reliant on IT to drive output.
Speed to value is a concept rooted in agile methodology. The goal is to deliver the most important items as soon as possible. We identify the high value milestones and deliverables and create a project plan that enables us to work on these high-priority items as quickly as we can, showing progress along the way. This approach fosters a sense of joint ownership and collaboration with our clients, establishing an immediate feedback loop to ensure clarity and success.
Information technology leaders face increasing expectations, competing priorities, and immense pressure to innovate. Burwood Group creates practical, innovative technology solutions to accelerate business results.
When Burwood begins a client engagement, we have one overarching priority: speed-to-value. Our team strives to bring value to your IT organization and business from day one, whether it’s a defined project or long-term contract. Our case studies reflect the wide variety of consultative expertise and technical depth on our teams, from infrastructure planning, to system integration, and managed services.
Unified Communications Strategy in an M&A Environment
When a global food distributor needed a customized unified communications architecture to keep up with their rapid M&A business, they turned to Burwood Group to create an evolving, user-focused strategy.
What industries do you serve?
Burwood Group serves a diverse client base. We prioritize creating technology solutions for the healthcare, financial services, higher education, government and manufacturing verticals. Our clients range from commercial to enterprise-size firms and institutions headquartered in the United States, from regional companies to global corporations.
What makes Burwood different from other IT consulting companies?
For nearly 25 years, Burwood Group has been enabling technology leaders to impact business goals with technology. Our consultants are experts in mapping organizational priorities to selecting the right technology investments for your business. Today, our technical expertise includes cloud, network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and collaboration. To support our consulting and integration expertise, we maintain 24x7 managed services as well as a broad catalog of partnerships to serve your hardware and software needs.
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Healthcare
Burwood Group helps healthcare organizations use technology to drive clinical and organizational goals. Our work includes upgrading and automating IT infrastructure processes, migrating workloads to the cloud, designing communication and collaboration environments, and more. Find out more about Burwood and healthcare.
Silver Cross Hospital enlisted Burwood Group’s vCISO services to help refine existing policies and provide hands-on guidance toward compliance readiness, cyber insurance preparedness, and corrective action plan effectiveness.
When AllianceChicago needed to improve the uptime of an integrated electronic health record (EHR) platform for its extensive healthcare network, it looked to Burwood to help ensure the availability of its underlying infrastructure.
What began as an emergency outage call became a powerful partnership based on expertise, trust, and a mutual passion for community healthcare. Watch our story about the Carle Hospital and Burwood Group technology partnership.
Burwood Group designed and implemented a clinical communications environment for the NNICU including commissioning testing, clinical adoption training, and go-live support.
To seamlessly provide patient care in the new 1.2 million square-foot, 242-bed facility, AbilityLab needed sophisticated wireless, security, and data center capabilities to be ready on day one.
Serving more than 80,000 medical and dental patients across its 13 Chicagoland locations, Erie Family Health system envisioned a better way to manage its longstanding network.
As part of a vision to enhance its student experience with a modern, technology-driven learning environment, a renowned medical education institution was converting a historic manufacturing plant into a cutting edge learning facility.
Preparing for a move to a new facility, Chicago-based Shirley Ryan AbilityLab needed to ensure that its clinical staff could smoothly and efficiently learn and adopt a new technology platform without missing a beat in care delivery.
When a nationally-recognized health system uncovered gaps in its medical device security practices, administrative leaders sought a cross-departmental security risk management program to protect against cyberattacks.
Denver Health recognized the need for a long-term strategy to align technology with best practice clinical workflows. Burwood Group provided a unified clinical communication strategy to empower caregivers and patients, and improve outcomes and efficiency.
When Rush University Medical Center was planning a move into their new facility, they chose Burwood Group to help their nursing and information services staffs smoothly transition.
As one of the nation’s top 10 health care organizations, Advocate Health Care wanted to update and expand its use of videoconferencing technology to reduce business travel requirements and improve patient care outcomes throughout geographically dispersed hospital locations.
Via Christi Health, the largest provider of healthcare services in Kansas, had been delivering Meditech, the electronic health record system, to workstations throughout the hospital with Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 for several years and recognized the need to upgrade this legacy solution.
California’s largest public healthcare system planned to build a new 740,000-square-foot “Hospital of the Future” and upgrade existing hospitals. The new facility required a scalable, forward-looking IT infrastructure to support current and future technologies.
When UConn Health began developing a state-of-the-art Outpatient Pavilion, it needed to ensure that the comprehensive IT portfolio would be seamlessly activated and commissioned during the multi-phased construction and move-in schedule.
When a Midwest-based medical school and its health system counterpart decided to adopt a new electronic medical records (EMR) system, it was clear that new infrastructure would be needed as well. The joint leadership team, enlisted Burwood to architect a solution.
A major, multi-faceted health system brought on board a technology executive with deep expertise in enterprise telecommunications to transform diverse workflows and enhance patient care.
When Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago moved from its Lincoln Park facility to a new, state of the art building, they turned to Burwood Group for project leadership and networking expertise to help with this substantial transition.
A major, multi-faceted healthcare system wanted a forward-looking telemedicine solution to enable staff neurologists and residents to effectively diagnose and treat stroke patients in a timely and effective manner within their 21 system hospitals.
Manufacturing
Burwood Group helps manufacturing, logistics, and transportation enterprises leverage technology to enable competitive success, mitigate risk, and enhance productivity. Our work includes data center consolidation, network segmentation, application modernization, and more. Find out more about Burwood and manufacturing.
When a global food distributor needed a customized unified communications architecture to keep up with their rapid M&A business, they turned to Burwood Group to create an evolving, user-focused strategy.
C.H.I Overhead Doors needed to ensure regulatory compliance and position the enterprise for growth. This strategy required modernization of their data center and overall infrastructure.
When Crescent Electric needed a better approach to performing critical security updates on its servers and applications, they enlisted the Burwood Cloud Services team for a streamlined solution.
After completing a major security assessment, a global food and beverage manufacturer uncovered an opportunity to further strengthen its security posture with a network segmentation solution.
Tarter Farm and Ranch Equipment was at a crossroads when its data storage lease was up for renewal. Burwood Group designed a solution—and uncovered an opportunity to modernize its infrastructure and dramatically enhance communications.
A global company engaged in bustling M&A activity needed to upgrade its outdated network infrastructure to support data-driven R&D and cloud services across its rapidly evolving global footprint.
Higher Education and Research
Burwood Group designs higher education solutions to enable student success, faculty productivity, and institutional technology strategy. Our expertise includes cloud enablement and migration, VDI and infrastructure as code for workload-intensive classroom applications, wireless upgrades, and more. Find out more about Burwood and higher education.
Run by the state’s Board of Higher Education, USHE includes eight public colleges and universities as well as eight technical colleges. It sponsors initiatives to improve student outcomes and generates data to facilitate research. Their briefs and reports provide a comprehensive overview of the state of higher education in Utah.
OCC partnered with Burwood and Google Cloud to implement Gen3 Workspaces on the GCP, which facilitated the adoption and use of the Gen3 data platform.
How we helped a flagship public research university quickly expand their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) at their affiliated hospital.
UW-Madison partnered with Burwood Group to implement the university’s first public cloud environment with security controls for working with sensitive public health data.
When Brown recognized scaling issues with a critical classroom application, they engaged Burwood Group to help with creating an automated, infrastructure as code production environment.
A ransomware attack in August of 2019 caused this higher education institution to expand off-campus cloud backups to improve disaster recovery. Burwood Group, HYCU, and Google Cloud stepped in to help.
Pierce College enlisted Burwood Group to modernize its local area network (LAN) to support new learning technologies and enhance security.
As part of a vision to enhance its student experience with a modern, technology-driven learning environment, a renowned medical education institution was converting a historic manufacturing plant into a cutting edge learning facility.
East LA College needed to replace legacy desktop virtualization tools in its campus labs and libraries. Timing was critical to ensure nearly 35,000 students could enjoy a reliable technology experience on the first day of Fall classes.
Facing budgetary and technological challenges, a large community college district enlisted Burwood to conduct a comprehensive assessment to help identify and prioritize technology opportunities to improve the delivery of education.
Unit 5 School District in McLean County, Illinois needed to ensure compliance with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s Children’s Internet Protection Act to provide content filtering for its students. The district turned to Burwood for networking and digital security expertise.
The College of Pharmacy within the University of Illinois at Chicago has long offered streaming video classes to better attract and serve geographically dispersed students. However, the demand for distance learning eventually exceeded the capacity of the existing campus network.
When a Midwest-based medical school and its health system counterpart decided to adopt a new electronic medical records (EMR) system, it was clear that new infrastructure would be needed as well. The joint leadership team, enlisted Burwood to architect a solution.
Financial Services
Burwood Group’s financial clients include regional and national banking institutions, high frequency trading firms, and insurance companies. Our clients rely on Burwood for help with customer and employee access, software-defined WAN design and deployment for branch locations, and state-of-the-art networking and security technology for securing critical data. Find out more about Burwood and financial services.
Leading Futures Brokerage Firm Transforms Data Bottlenecks into Business Agility using Data Mesh Approach
The journey toward digital transformation can be taxing for any organization, grappling with legacy systems and modern technology complexities. One global futures brokerage found their progress stifled by their systems and existing processes.
CEFCU, one of the largest credit unions in the U.S., needed to equip 20 of its member centers with wireless networking, while minimizing demands on its IT staff. Burwood Group was selected to recommend and implement a value-added wireless solution.
To reduce risk and support compliance, First Bankers Trust's IT leadership needed to strengthen the reliability of its two data centers to improve application access. Burwood Group was engaged to design and implement a solution to add full high-availability (HA) and redundancy for improved business performance.
Rather than simply renew with their existing provider, CEFCU wanted to explore the possibility of expanding their existing virtual environment to yield a more cost-effective, forward-thinking storage solution.
NFR partnered with Burwood to implement a Modern Workplace solution which included upgrading to the latest Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops offering to provide operational optimization and reduced complexity.
When AllianceChicago needed to improve the uptime of an integrated electronic health record (EHR) platform for its extensive healthcare network, it looked to Burwood to help ensure the availability of its underlying infrastructure.
Lyric Opera of Chicago turned to Burwood Group to update its wireless network and expand coverage across its seven-floor facility.
As developer of the Barclays Center, the 675,000-square-foot, 18,000-seat sports and entertainment venue that is home to the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, Forest City Ratner Companies envisioned a highly connected, state-of-the-art, $485 million sports arena.
Scott County's technology team turned to Burwood Group for a new virtual desktop and application delivery platform that would improve stability and the user experience, while optimizing the budget.
A large retailer needed to optimize their data warehousing strategy for data-driven customer service. They called Burwood Group to uncover new value using the Google Cloud platform.