Testimonials

“We looked at a number of possible infrastructure solutions. Essential Business Server is easy and manageable. Unlike other solutions, it doesn’t require a lot of training. It allows us to manage our network, consolidate our infrastructure components, and integrate our applications—all of which increase our efficiency. Essential Business Server is the best solution to our problems, and it fits a business of our size well.”

“I definitely see Essential Business Server giving us a competitive advantage. Before, my team spent 80 percent of its time on maintenance and firefighting—just keeping the infrastructure running. With Essential Business Server, I estimate that this will be reduced to 50 percent. That frees up a significant amount of resources that can be used to focus on strategically growing our business capabilities.”

“Just the upfront cost savings from Windows Essential Business Server are significant. The combined licenses will help us reduce our license cost by 30 percent—down from $40,000 to $28,000. We’re also consolidating 10 servers down to six, reducing our maintenance and management costs there."

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“Because we have immediate access to event logs, we can spot issues early and avoid costly server problems. A typical server crash involves anywhere from 10 to 250 users and 30 to 45 minutes of downtime for that particular service. So the savings in terms of increased productivity are significant.”

“We knew we couldn’t move to the next level without an upgraded infrastructure. We knew we needed to upgrade our messaging infrastructure, our server OS, our connectivity, and our remote services. Essential Business Server not only brings all of that together in one efficient package, but it allowed us to accomplish our infrastructure upgrade 3 months faster than if we had to upgrade all the components individually. At this point, I can now attack my business process improvements with confidence.”

“Our mobile users have historically had a lot of difficulty connecting to the corporate network using terminal services and the Lotus Notes messaging system. Now they’re having a much better mobile experience with Outlook, Outlook Web Access, and Exchange Server 2007. As a very conservative estimate, I would say 75 remote employees, each saving 15 minutes per week, at $35 per hour...that’s $30,000 per year saved.”

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“Currently, Essential Business Server is saving us at least $50,000 a year in reduced costs. And those savings will increase in the future as we add more business processes without having to add more people to manage them.”

“Our technology costs are at least 50 percent lower than they would be without Essential Business Server.”

“Having Windows Essential Business Server as our infrastructure dramatically changes how fast we can react to problems and opportunities. We can react instantly from the road. It’s hard to quantify the reduction in stress and confusion that this yields, but it’s huge. You can deal with issues now, rather than 8 hours from now when you’re back in the hotel or a week from now when you’re back in the office.”

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"We’ve reduced our technology management chores by 50 percent with the move to Windows Essential Business Server 2008. We’ve also reduced our server count, which represents a huge savings in ongoing maintenance work."

“We’ve recently hired a salesperson to work remotely in Los Angeles, and with Windows Essential Business Server 2008, we can more easily support that employee and enable her to securely access company data.”

“We’ve reduced our technology management chores by 50 percent with the move to Windows Essential Business Server 2008. We’ve also reduced our server count from 16 to seven servers, which represents a huge savings in ongoing maintenance work.”

“Because we’ve restructured our entire server/back-office ecosystem, we’ve increased our business capacity by five-fold. It’s enabled us to implement virtualization and deploy additional business applications, such as Citrix Access Essentials, that we probably couldn’t have supported without Windows Essential Business Server 2008.”

“We were consuming about 12,000 to 14,000 BTUs per hour in our data center, and we’ve reduced that to about 7,000 BTUs per hour by reducing our physical server count from 16 to seven. We’ve cut our power consumption in half.”

"We were previously using many Microsoft technologies as separate tools. Windows Essential Business Server 2008 integrates them in one place, which makes a huge difference. We get a green-check report every morning that shows us the overall health of the organization, which we never had before. We can now see how issues are interacting with each other, which makes troubleshooting much easier."

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"Our administrative workload is one-tenth what it was before.… This is the largest step forward, in terms of our ability to focus on real business needs, that we have ever seen."

“Windows Essential Business Server has enabled us to go from 15 percent of our workforce with mobile devices to 100 percent. This has had a huge impact on information availability. Essential Business Server makes it easy—with Exchange Server 2007 built in, we didn’t need a third-party server to get all the features we need.”

“48% of workforce is remote. Before, tasks were assigned to people in the field and followed up using email, phone, and fax. Now, tasks are published to a SharePoint site and are much more easily tracked. No more hunting down people by phone or having to supply the same information over and over.”

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"Remote Web Workplace in Windows Essential Business Server will be a fantastic addition to our system."

"With centralized management, one single console, in Windows Essential Business Server, I’ll be able to take care of problems proactively before something breaks. I’ll be able to use a lot of the tools to do things quicker, simpler, better."

"We are very excited by what Windows Essential Business Server will deliver, both as end users and as a partner. Our customers are looking forward to the new functionality, enhanced security, and much greater ease of management. Digital IP sees a tremendous opportunity to offer a robust technology platform to our mid market customers, simplifying administration of their networks to the point where their scarce in-house IT resources can be concentrated on tasks that add real value to the customer's business."

"With Windows Essential Business Server 2008, we now have fewer pieces to manage. Whenever you have third-party products, they need to be separately managed in order to run well. With Essential Business Server 2008, these functions are integrated and can be managed from the central Administration Console. It’s simpler to operate and you have fewer licenses to manage."