Avaya Helps Honda Increase Productivity

Avaya IP Solutions help Honda Racing F1 gain a competitive edge in Formula 1 racing.

For Honda Racing F1, every decision and every investment is focused on gaining a competitive edge. Through strengthening business communications and meeting goals, Honda Racing F1 continues to gain clout as a force to be reckoned with. As the company faced widely dispersed mobile teams and as distributed HQ campus faced high costs there became an inconsistent quality in mission-critical communications. Another challenge was the rapid growth in the workforce which ultimately hindered collaboration among work locations.

When Honda Racing F1's continued growth threatened to overwhelm its communications system, they needed to find a solution. That solution was found in an Avaya IP telephony solution, a strategic unified communications solution. Avaya proposed, designed and installed Avaya MultiVantage Communications Applications, running Avaya Communication Manager and IP Telephones to streamline communications within main campus locations. Through a partnership with Nokia and Avaya Mobile functionality was extended, enabling easier access and more effective collaboration among mobile employees.
Benefits of the deployment included:

• Savings of 30 percent in communications costs for mobile workers
• Increased collaboration and productivity among headquarters personnel throughout five campus locations
• Decreased IT maintenance costs and resources, through single-supplier solution
• Faster, more productive linkage of mobile workers with headquarters experts
• More secure and reliable communication operations, through business continuity features
• Easily scalable infrastructures to accommodate continued growth of communications network

Most important for Honda Racing F1, the new IP platform will support the company's continued growth.