CAE Labs innovation has a tangible impact for our customers and the environment
Reduced Costs
Up to 75% reduced engineering time and costs due to zero-touch technology provisioning through tight integrations, automation and orchestration of service delivery, enabling effort to be focused where it is needed most.
Increased Efficiency
Through programmatically approaching business transformation a recent CAE project demonstrated that by automating a project with c.6,000 devices saved 176 engineering days and over £167,000 in cost.
Less Configuration Errors
Taking a first-time right strategy to deliver consistency and standardisation throughout a project, greatly reducing the chances of configuration drift and errors.
Sustainable Networking
Intelligently measure and optimise power across your entire infrastructure to enable the business to only consume the power it needs, resulting in reduced operating cost (£££), less wasted power (kWh), and lower environmental impact (tCO2e).
Service Assurance
Increasing uptime and reducing business restoration downtime by providing ongoing service intelligence, mitigating associated risks with cloud technology and achieving the best possible recovery time objective.
Infrastructure Visbility
A curated and powerful insights service developed by us that gives you complete visibility of the lifecycle and operational health of your business infrastructure. Delivered in a simple and easy to understand platform that we update daily for you and that is available at no cost.
More Good Days for our Customers
It is more than just our job when we think about what we help our customers to achieve
Helping the NHS fight from home
“The CAE team had helped newly remote staff, unused to working from home and dealing with the personal impact of a changing world, were able to work from home seamlessly, accessing clinical applications quickly and securely. The team are delighted that the agile approach taken resulted in a successful deployment for BCUHB, allowing them to concentrate on supporting the NHS during a critical time.”
Gold star network for teachers & students
“Right first time, rapid, zero touch provision and deployment. After testing the delivery service at five schools in the pilot phase, CAE were able to hand over a consistent, streamlined operating model for WCBC to deploy, which was easy for us to scale and repeat for the remaining 65 schools.”
Retail store 'heart & lungs' transplant
“Having worked at Coop for 20 years, in all my time I have never completed a project in store operating hours, working with CAE we took this one stage further and removed the hearts and lungs of the store whilst the store was trading with a downtime of 45 seconds, this is one of the most outstanding pieces of work I have ever seen delivered.”
Ali McKeand | CTO Office - Chief Technologist - Innovation at CAE
I once heard a TED Talk speaker advocate, “Never buy a solution or platform that doesn’t have an API or allow you to innovate”.
While this didn’t firmly resonate with me at the time, a few years later it became abundantly clear that this was brilliant advice, and I had my belated ‘Eureka’ moment!
I joined CAE when I was 21 years old, and it’s been a real journey. CAE has nurtured me and allowed me the space and scope to deliver solutions with real tangible outcomes. A lot of the innovation is born from my own experiences and a passion for driving out more value and more capabilities for our customers.
One of my biggest recent challenges was the Co-op’s store transformational project in 2019. I couldn’t personally configure 6000 firewalls and switches by hand, so we developed an integrated solution that would remove the manual process. I found the magic formula (programmatic with no physical touchpoints), which was the launchpad for further development and productized solutions that customers can buy off the shelf to improve cost reduction, efficiency gains, and time to value. In that instance, it saved the customer over £1 million, bringing the project in ahead of time and budget.
Although my background is as a technical specialist, I knew I wasn’t going to be uber technical or a guru like some of my CAE peers; it’s more about understanding the impact of the right technology and the right approach to fit different needs. I try to keep a balance between technology and business value – and stay focused on the business outcome.
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