Case Studies

Industry Agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and coopera ves across the US Business Challenges Find flexible, scalable and secure coloca on Partner with a data center that is local, yet has enterprise capabili es Need to keep pace with advancing technology while addressing technology debt User Environment More than six dozen opera ons in 16 states and Canada with more than 500 loca ons serving more than 75,000 producer-owners and other customers About OneNeck IT Solutions OneNeck IT Solu ons provides world-class, hybrid IT solu ons for thousands of businesses around the globe. From cloud and hos ng solu ons to managed services, ERP applica on management, professional services, IT hardware and top- er data centers in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon and Wisconsin, OneNeck has the exper se to help customers navigate the cloud to get the right applica on on the right cloud at the right me. OneNeck is a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. [NYSE: TDS]. A Fortune 500® company, TDS provides wireless; wireline and cable broadband, TV and voice; and hosted and managed services to approximately six million customers na onwide. CHS Summary CHS decided this was the loca on to house much of their cri cal data. They started with their SAP environment, and then expanded with addi onal hardware colocated in the data center. The second move of their colocated hardware had to be completed in a very short meframe due to year-end deadlines, and OneNeck rose to the challenge. Gresenz con nues, "In the very short meframe we had to implement our second coloca on phase, OneNeck was incredibly helpful. They did a fantas c job keeping us informed, so we didn't have to have one of our incredibly busy IT resources on site while hardware was arriving, and they enabled us to get it set up in a very short manner of me." In addi on, Gresenz states, "As the CHS board of directors has been in town, we have at mes brought them to the OneNeck data center for tours, o en on short no ce, and the OneNeck team has been incredibly accommoda ng and welcoming, eagerly showing them around the facility." In addi on to coloca on, OneNeck offers a myriad of hybrid IT services that complement any IT strategy an organiza on may set, which was a key differen ator when CHS chose OneNeck. "Flexibility was important in our choice," con nues Gresenz. "If we need addi onal services down the road, we already have a partner that can deliver in OneNeck." OneNeck.com 855.ONENECK Part #9.2.41 CSCHS_1116_v1 ©2016 OneNeck IT Solutions LLC. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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