Business Analysis Consulting Project BOREALIS INFRASTRUCTURE

About the Company  Pioneer and recognized leader in Infrastructure Investing  What they do = Make & Manage Investments in Traditional Infrastructure sectors which have barriers to entry. Industry sectors and businesses which exhibit strong cash flows,linked to inflation

About the Company  Diverse Staff of approximately 50 people  Offices : Toronto, London, UK  first group formed by a Canadian pension plan with a mandate to invest in infrastructure as a separate asset class.  approximately C$7 billion invested  20+ investments = value of in C$40 billion Accountants Engineers Lawyers Finance Professional

What they do  Invest in Traditional and non- traditional infrastructure sectors  Business/ assets exhibiting monopolistic qualities  Stable Cash Flows  OMERS - Acts as the infrastructure investment arm.  A Canadian pension plan with $50 billion in net investment assets  They secure and deliver the pension promise given to beneficiaries of OMERs pension plan

Examples of Sectors  Energy – Electricity, Pipelines transmission/distribution  Transportation – Roads, bridges, tunnels  Communications – Data and voice, satellites and cable  Water – Wastewater plants, distribution systems  Satellite Communication – data and voice satellites

Examples of Sectors

Management Strategy  Employ an active and direct-drive strategy  Do this by seeking meaningful stakes in assets Prefer to invest in:  Large mature operating assets requiring an equity investment of at least C200$ million  They do evaluate and participate in both Greenfield opportunities and smaller investments

Management Philosophy Investment Professional Investment Opportunity Close Manages  Motivates the employees to avoid short term decision making at the investment stage  Responsible for all Decisions during the whole investment process

Management Philosophy (cont) Senior Management Team One Member from this team were involved in each asset & Investment Opportunity One Member from this team were involved in each asset & Investment Opportunity Deep Set of Investment Professionals Focus in a particular infrastructure sector Broad Skill set Team Members have full Support of Borealis’ accounting, finance, credit and legal support teams. PUT IN THE MAN (niwaz)

Current Technology & Processes  Windows Server 2003  Microsoft Exchange  Server

Current Technology & Processes (cont.)  VOIP Phone System  Cisco Routers  Firewalls  Web Development

Current Technology & Processes (cont.)  Network design  Architecting  Visual basic programming

Current Processes  IT Department is responsible for:  Technology Deployments  Setting new technologies  Support  Troubleshoot end-user problems

Problems I  Employees complain about having to take a laptop around everywhere, they want something more portable

Problems II  Security problem with documents being changed on the server  Those who are authorized to make changes can make them and reverse them without it being documented  Internal audit wants the company to have an auditable change management routine/process

Problems III  Too much time and money is wasted when manually looking for documents concerning investments, legal documents and etc. on the company’s server

Problems IV  Slow communications problem between head office (Toronto, Borealis Infrastructure) and remote office (UK, Borealis Infrastructure)  Remote office in UK needs information from head office in order to complete operations

Solution I  Blackberry Playbook

Solution I  Blackberry Playbook  Features  Enterprise Ready  Business Driving  Multitasking  Device Pairing  HD Video Camera  Adobe Flash compatible  Bluetooth

Solution II  Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM)  Key Benefits  Optimize budget options for hardware acquisition  Leverage existing hardware investments/maintenance contracts  Increase scope of security data included in intelligence gathering  Automate collection, analysis and delivery of compliance evidence

Solution II  Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM)  Key Benefits contd.  Save time not having to customize reports  Easy reporting  Reduces administration of rules maintenance and can reduce number of rules needed  Increases detection of multidimensional user access activities

Solution II  Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM)  Key Features  Supports virtual environment deployments  Soft appliance deployments  Custom log management/universal collectors  Over 150 out of box compliance reporting templates  Multi-conditional correlation rules

Solution III & IV  Ademero Document Management System  Key Benefits  Organizes data on network  Provides security for information  Communication line speed between Toronto & UK offices increases dramatically  Helps workflow, content retrieval & transfer of documents between the offices

Solution III & IV  Ademero Document Management System  Key Features  Document capture, retrieval & management simple with Content Central™.  Captures documents: through scanning & transferring of electronic files  Manages documents  Find documents

Questions?

 About your speakers:  Names: Ameerah Razac, Nikhita Rele, Niwaz Mann, Toloue Ghasemloo  Social Media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn