CASE STUDY
EMBRACING THE DIGITAL FUTURE SAYMAAD MANSOOR, HEAD OF IT, SPEED HOUSE GROUP, EXPLAINS HOW THE 46-YEAROLD FIRM INITIATED A DIGITAL JOURNEY THAT RESULTED IN THE COMPLETE OVERHAUL OF ITS EXISTING SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, ONLY TO LEVERAGE UNIMAGINABLE BENEFITS AND NEW AVENUES OF OPPORTUNITIES.
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ight from its inception in 1974 in Ajman, UAE, Speed House Group has been serving the construction industry across the Middle East and North Africa. The company provides turnkey solutions and services in civil, infrastructure and contracting, modular buildings, container conversion, interior fit-outs and furniture, kitchen 36
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and bathroom pods, GRP/GRC, and lubricant trading. Commencing with just 50 employees, the company has grown its workforce to over 1200 today and boasts more than 500 customers across five continents distributed over 27 countries. Having set up the business almost 50 years ago, the company’s IT infrastructure was running on obsolete systems. This meant vendor support and
updates for various operating systems and technologies were discontinued, resulting in huge security lapses, making the organisation highly susceptible to cybersecurity threats and attacks. Embarking on a digital journey Understanding the immediate need to make the shift to digital technologies, the company began to recruit experts in the
