Find out what global organizations are saying about their experience with Exchange and Forefront for Exchange. Our customers are achieving better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. Exchange 2010 is delivering to customers the widest range of deployment options, integrated information leakage protection, and advanced compliance capabilities, that combine to form the best messaging and collaboration solution available.
Morgan Keegan & Company
Investment Firm Saves $400,000 and Expects to Boost IT Productivity by 30 Percent
Business Situation:
Morgan Keegan wanted to increase the flexibility of its e-mail solution so that it could more easily interoperate with other applications. The company also wanted to increase scalability and reduce complexity.
Solution:
The company built an agile messaging and collaboration solution with Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 and direct-attached storage.
Benefits:
Enhances agility and efficiency
Boosts control and compliance
Reduces long-term storage costs by 15 percent
Cuts recovery time by 20 percent
Increases IT productivity by 30 percent
BGC Partners
Financial Services Firm Reduces Recovery Time by 50 Percent and Saves $1 Million
Business Situation:
The company needed to improve the performance, scalability, and stability of its e-mail system. BGC also wanted to increase its control over the system and reduce costs and complexity.
Solution:
BGC built an e-mail solution with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and replaced its storage area network with direct-attached storage.
Benefits:
Saves more than $1 million in IT costs
Shortens RTO by 50 percent
Enhances flexibility and control
Increases performance and stability
Boosts IT productivity by up to 30 percent
Subaru Canada
Automotive Distributor Provides Employees with Anywhere Access to Messages
Business Situation:
Subaru Canada wanted to improve the efficiency of its communications, especially among mobile employees who frequently had to call to check their voice-mail messages.
Solution:
Subaru Canada implemented Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise including voice-to-text conversion for voice-mail messages.
Benefits:
Improved worker productivity
Reduced cost to support mobile employees
Larger mailboxes with reduced storage costs
Improved IT efficiency
NEC Philips
Systems Integrator Saves £42,000 with Consolidated Messaging Environment
Business Situation:
The United Kingdom division of NEC Philips Unified Solution wanted to consolidate its messaging environment, while providing disaster recovery and better messaging for its consultants.
Solution:
NEC Philips deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to take advantage of improved failover capabilities and to support larger mailboxes.
Benefits:
Reduced annual disaster recovery costs by £12,000 (U.S.$19,560)
Reduced storage costs
Reduced antispam and monitoring costs
Improved productivity and customer service
Lion Nathan
Australian Brewer Improves Reliability, Availability with Highly Available Messaging
Business Situation:
To support its business objectives and new disaster recovery center, Lion Nathan wanted to provide a highly available messaging environment at a lower cost and with easier administration.
Solution:
Lion Nathan deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to take advantage of improved high availability capabilities to reduce e-mail downtime and to save on storage costs.
Benefits:
Reduced storage costs by AU$90,000 (U.S.$75,000)
Improved order fulfillment
Reduced backup costs by 80 percent
Reduced IT administration
Improved productivity
International Speedway Corporation
Motorsports Promoter Enhances Security and Drives Down Costs with Hosted Filtering
Business Situation:
The company operates 13 facilities, representing more than one million grandstand seats and 550 suites. In order to stay in touch with its fans, ISC depends on maintaining a healthy email environment—one free from distracting spam, or worse, malicious email that can compromise business operations. “Keeping spam off our email system is critical for both maintaining the integrity of our email security and business productivity,” explains McNulty. However, managing spam must be done intelligently because the company works with legitimate sponsors who can often be the subject of spam messages.
Solution:
ISC has taken advantage of other products and technologies from Microsoft and has an Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) agreement, which includes licenses for Microsoft Forefront security products. To get the most value from the licensing agreement, ISC decided to take advantage of its agreement and implemented Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, a hosted service that offers layered protection against spam and malicious software.
Benefits:
Enhanced Security Reduces Spam Incidents by 25 Percent
Simplified IT Administration
Avoided Costs of More Than $120,000
PEI Cobb Freed and Partners
Architecture Firm Moves from Symantec to Microsoft to Meet Clients’ Security Needs
Business Situation:
Pei Cobb is known around the world as one of the premier architectural firms, not as a security firm. But it has to be both, says George Podolak, Director of IT at the firm. Its landmark works include the John F. Kennedy Library, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Hong Kong’s Bank of China Tower.
Solution:
Pei Cobb has migrated to adopt Microsoft security technologies. At the core of those technologies are the products of the Microsoft Forefront™ Security Suite, which safeguard all of the firm’s computers, including servers, desktops, and laptops, providing security-enhanced messaging, collaboration, endpoints, and more.
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