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.

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.

First Technology is one of South Africa’s leading single-source providers of IT products and solutions. Because email is a business critical tool internally and for its customers, First Technology deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 in its own production environment to understand and experience the latest architecture and capabilities. The deployment will instil confidence in its customers that First Technology can replicate and manage this latest technology.

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.

The China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) is an oil and gas company based in Beijing, China. The company had deployed a Microsoft messaging solution for 200,000 employees for business-critical communication. After testing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, Sinopec has decided to deploy it to support daily business operations, reduce its data center footprint, and increase availability.

ADVA Optical Networking SE provides network equipment for data, storage, voice, and video services. To communicate with suppliers and customers, employees frequently use email. Recently the company began consolidating its Microsoft messaging solution into two main data centers. When it heard about architecture enhancements in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, the company decided to initiate a pilot project to understand the potential benefits. ADVA expects that Exchange Server 2013 can help it reduce costs, ease administration, increase availability, and improve productivity.

Rockford Health System wanted an enhanced sign-on solution that would streamline access to electronic health records (EHR). To improve efficiency, Rockford implemented an automated solution with HealthCast QwickACCESS and Windows Embedded running on HP thin clients that connect to back-end servers. By providing centralized access to healthcare records, Rockford is improving clinician efficiency and increasing time for patient care, cutting costs by US$500,000, and easing IT management with a more centralized, flexible solution.