AFRICAN REINSURANCE CORPORATION (AFRICA RE)
DEPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT FOR SCCM AT AFRICA RE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) is an International Financial Institution with Headquarters in Lagos (Nigeria). Africa Re has six Regional Offices in Casablanca (Morocco), Nairobi (Kenya), Abidjan (Côted’Ivoire), Port Louis (Mauritius), Lagos (Nigeria) and Cairo (Egypt); two subsidiaries in Johannesburg (South Africa) and Cairo (Egypt) as well as a Local Office in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Uganda (Kampala).
2.0 BACKGROUND
AFRICA RE wishes to deploy Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to manage about five hundred network systems, both physical and virtual. All the offices of the corporation are connected through a Virtual Private Network (VPN), and the purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from vendors qualified to deploy and configure this solution.
3.0 OBJECTIVES & SCOPE OF WORK
African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) seeks for a Vendor o:r Service Provider that will deploy the SCCM. The objectives amongst others are for Africa Re to use the SCCM to:
- Maintain corporate compliance and control, while empowering employees to use devices and applications they need to be productive.
- Use the configuration manager to provide key management capabilities around application delivery,
desktop virtualization, device management, and security that would make it possible to enable productivity amidst device proliferation, while also reducing costs. - Use the software Update functionality of SCCM to automatically deploy and push applications and updates to the systems on the network and eliminate the need to manually install updates and applications on per user basis.
- Ensure that users cannot install unapproved software versions except those that are available through the SCCM server software. This is to minimize the risk of users installing infected and unofficial software versions of popular tools.
- Track its assets both Hardware and Software with the SCCM.
- Integrate with Microsoft Intune to allow seamless management of mobile devices.
