The client
AVIS is the leading car rental company in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia, covering a total of 107 countries. With over 3,000 sites and staff of 5,600, the company has an annual turnover of 2.1 billion. AVIS purchases annually 1.4% of all new cars made in Europe, and has a total of eight million unique rentals. AVIS is famous for it's 'we try harder philosophy'.

Client requirements
Through partnerships, AVIS was looking to move IT from a simple technology unit to a solution and service delivery centre of excellence. As a global, real-time organization the data network would have to form the foundation for this transition. However, following a due diligence exercise facilitated by Vanco, it became apparent that the existing network solution would constrain any significant progress.

The solution
AVIS sought a single unified solution from a single provider with a single service guarantee and culture. With additional expectations of a ten fold increase in its bandwidth over the next three to five years, AVIS specifically required:

• A solution which would be the basis for a legacy enablement project allowing the company to access data and integrate with its online reservation system