Otepoti Dunedin might be best known as the home of Otago University and its 21,000 students, but it’s also New Zealand’s only UNESCO City of Literature, a growing urban centre with a vibrant creative heart.
Dunedin City Council (DCC) presides over the city’s core infrastructure, including many private and public properties such as residential homes, libraries, pools and art galleries.
The Council holds and maintains a broad set of data, which needs to be stored, protected, and used effectively to deliver value to private and public sectors. Faced with a growing mountain of data, and increasing costs for its existing tech infrastructure, the Council needed to modernise its enterprise and decided that a ‘cloud-first’ approach would be the most efficient solution.
DCC was looking to transition to a new and more reliable way of working, providing ratepayers with modern digital services, and employees with the flexibility to work from anywhere on any device. This was even more important as the Covid pandemic has become a constant disruption to the workplace.
“It’s about being able to use any device, any place, any time,” says Graeme Riley, Chief Information Officer at DCC. “We wanted to future-proof ourselves by transitioning our physical infrastructure and we wanted to make sure we got it right.”