Customer Case Study
Morgan Street Document Systems
4/7/2009
Document Management Solution Drives 1,000 Percent Sales Growth, 90 Percent Cut in TCO
Morgan Street Document Systems provides personalized, Web-based document services to high-net-worth individuals who need to organize, share, and protect essential information. For its document management solution, Morgan Street moved from a highly customized UNIX-based environment to a more scalable, easy to use, and reliable Microsoft solution.
Industry: IT Services
Size: Small, 25 employees
Country: US  US

Customer Profile
http://morganstreetdocuments.com
Morgan Street Document Systems, located in Chicago, Illinois, provides personalized, Web-based document services to individuals who need to organize, share, and protect essential information. It has 25 employees.
Business Situation
For its document management solution, Morgan Street wanted to move from a highly customized environment to one that offered greater scalability, ease of use, and reliability.
Solution
Morgan Street gained those abilities by moving to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and related Microsoft technologies.
Benefit
  • Easy use and scalability support 1,000 percent sales increase
  • Reliability beats 99.5 percent uptime service-level agreement
  • Total cost of ownership reduced by 90 percent
Software
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  • Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
  • Silverlight
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
Quote
"With Windows Server, we actually see higher levels of uptime and reliability than we saw with UNIX."
Glenn Shimkus, Chief Technology Officer, Morgan Street Document Systems