Headquartered in Beijing, China, Sohu.com provides Internet services such as search, advertising, and online gaming. Employees use email for business-critical communication, so the company’s messaging solution must be highly available and secure. Recently, Sohu decided to evaluate upgrading to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 to help improve messaging compliance, ensure high availability, and reduce hardware costs and administration.

With 82 sites across Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, Komatsu Australia has employees who work in many locations. Because its employees rely heavily on its messaging solution to communicate with each other and with customers, Komatsu must ensure that it has a highly available, efficient system in place to support them. Employees at Komatsu save their email messages for future reference and mailbox sizes were growing rapidly. Komatsu was using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for email and voice mail and wanted to implement an archiving solution to help employees better manage their email. Komatsu upgraded to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 to take advantage of the built-in archiving capabilities and enhanced high-availability configurations to reduce administration requirements while improving availability and providing new capabilities to employees.

One of the most distinguished independent law firms in Portugal, Vieira de Almeida & Associados had accumulated various disconnected line-of-business systems throughout the years, each serving a certain department and causing communication gaps across the company. Safira helped them break down the siloes and improve productivity with a Business-Critical SharePoint solution that uses line-of-business data, introducing automation, self-service, and company-wide transparency.

Axept Webcall is a division of Swisscom, the largest telecommunications company in Switzerland. It provides engineering and operation services and specializes in Microsoft unified communications and collaboration solutions. Axept Webcall recently deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 on-premises to provide updated messaging capabilities to its employees. As a result, it improved its high availability configuration and enhanced communications.

Growing fast, DB Results was hiring five to 10 new people a week, overloading its ageing and unreliable in-house IT and reducing responsiveness. The company wanted to provide the latest communication technology on desktops, laptops and mobiles so workers could access documents and collaborate anywhere – while avoiding ongoing capital investment in servers and software. National Delivery Manager James Columbine put together a five-year strategy for Microsoft Office 365 after investigating Google Apps. A faster learning curve and richer features guided the decision. “Telstra came to the table with a package deal combining our phones and Office 365 on a single bill, making it very cost effective for us to migrate,” says Columbine. MAIN QUOTE “We now have the modern collaboration platform we need for a predictable monthly cost.” James Columbine, National Delivery Manager, DB Results

Calibre Real Estate is a fast growing company, requiring even faster technology upgrades. Founder and Principal Alice Hagen realised that continually investing in and maintaining her own ICT was a poor business model. Each new server cost around A$30,000 and would need to be upgraded again in just a few years. Instead of buying another expensive server, Hagen decided to move the company to cloud computing. Impressed by its reliability, stability, back-up services and excellent reputation with other larger firms, Hagen made the switch to Microsoft Office 365 through their partner Telstra. The company now has on the go access to Exchange, Lync and SharePoint enabling seamless communication, collaboration and document sharing.

When Volvo IT wanted to implement its Unified Communications Next Generation project, it deployed Microsoft Lync Server 2010 to provide instant messaging, presence, and conferencing capabilities to its employees. With the Lync solution, Volvo IT found it could reduce costs on audio conferencing and mobile roaming. It has also reduced management requirements. To build on the success of the current solution and improve availability, it tested Microsoft Lync Server 2013 as part of the project to prepare for a future deployment.

Türk Telekom Group is a full-service communications and convergence technologies provider in Turkey. The company’s 2,000 retail salespeople used Openwave Messaging to communicate with the corporate office, but the solution was difficult to manage. When Türk Telekom learned about Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, it deployed the solution to help reduce administration, provide high availability, and offer improved messaging capabilities to employees.

Because communication and collaboration are important in education, Dunamare had deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to provide email for 14,500 staff and students. While the email solution was popular and reliable, students quickly filled up their mailbox quotas and were asking for more storage. Unwilling to invest in more storage, and looking to reduce its costs for administration, the school system began looking for alternatives. Working with Wortell, Dunamare decided to migrate its users to Microsoft Exchange Online, a service of Microsoft Office 365. Dunamare found that migrating to Microsoft Exchange Online helped it provide better service and dramatically reduce costs.

Based in Finland, Tieto is the largest computer services and software solution provider in the Nordic region of Northern Europe. Tieto relies on a Microsoft messaging solution to help employees at its 26 locations communicate with partners and customers. Most recently, Tieto upgraded to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 to take advantage of enhancements in disaster recovery and storage. It also expects to reduce costs and improve productivity.