Project overview
Established in 1997, the client stands as one of Africa’s largest and most advanced tilapia farms, second only to Lake Harvest in Zimbabwe. With an impressive annual production and sales volume exceeding 2,000 metric tons of high-quality tilapia, the company has cemented its leadership in the aquaculture industry.Their operations span multiple strategic locations. The business owns a 32-acre dedicated hatchery at Asutsuare, situated on the Volta River near Akuse, where they produce more than 20 million production-ready fingerlings each year. Full-scale fish production takes place at Mpakadan—just 6 km upstream of the Akosombo Dam—at a deep-water site in the Agina Gorge. This broad operational footprint makes the organization both highly productive and geographically distributed.
Project overview
As a fast-growing aquaculture enterprise with operations dispersed across river-based and inland sites, the client encountered significant IT infrastructure and connectivity challenges:
- Geographically Scattered Business Units
- Limited IT Capacity and Management Burden
- Need for a Core Business Application System
- Full IT Outsourcing and Managed Services
- Deployment of Business-Critical Application Servers
Assessments
The Production Teams operate in offshore locations across the Volta Lake. This made it extremely difficult.
Analysis
Given the nature of their core business—fish farming and aquaculture management—the client recognized that directly managing IT personnel, systems, and infrastructure.
Recommendations
Liranz Limited designed and executed a comprehensive, scalable, and highly secure end-to-end IT transformation strategy tailored to the client's unique operating environment.
Project Impact
Increase in Yield
Improvement in Efficiency
Real-time Data Monitoring
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