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Branch Office | Small Retail Chain Challenge: We have 15 branches and 250 employees, all of whom require access to our centralized, managed IT applications. Our solution: Benefits: With Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services applications, we can extend access to our retail and inventory management software to our employees at all branches without adding any IT overhead. As a result, we are well positioned for decentralization and growth as the business climate and our organization changes. |
Virtualization | Corporate Financial Consultancy Challenge: Our firm is made up of 100 employees. Windows Essential Business Server 2008 was a natural fit for us, but we wanted to maximize the utilization of our servers now and have the flexibility to scale out in the future. Our solution: Benefits: Deploying Windows EBS Premium this way enables us to buy only the hardware we currently need, with the confidence that we can scale out when we need to in the future. |
Collaboration | IT Consulting Firm Challenge: We have 135 employees with enterprise-class collaboration needs. We also need secure, controlled access to our internal documents—all without the luxury of adding to our IT staff. Our solution: Benefits: Since our IT staff is at full capacity, it is important that our IT administrator can still manage our servers. Meanwhile, we can also easily manage, track, and collaborate on our documents. |
Business Continuity | Agricultural Equipment Company Challenge: We have 120 employees, 80 of whom are on the road in rural areas all the time. These field employees rely on e-mail to stay in touch, so it must be available at all times. Our solution: Benefits: With this configuration, we are taking advantage of the failover clustering capabilities built into Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Thanks to clustering, we can keep our e-mail services up in case of maintenance or natural disaster. Our productivity gets a major boost with Windows Mobile, which allows our employees to access Exchange on the road. |
Backup | Accounting Firm Challenge: We are an accounting firm with 245 employees. We wanted an easier way to back up and restore our data, but we do not want to dedicate the staff or the budget for a complex solution. Our solution: Benefits: Windows EBS 2008 Premium meets our IT needs in an affordable, easy-to-use package. Windows SBS 2008 Premium includes a full version of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, so we can run Data Protection Manager 2007 at a fraction of the cost. Running Data Protection Manager 2007 streamlines our IT infrastructure and lets us more easily back up and restore our data. |
LOB | Medical Equipment Distributor Challenge: We are a medical equipment distribution company with 150 employees. Our line-of-business (LOB) software enables us to spot trends in our industry and seize new opportunities—it is essential to our remaining competitive. However, the equipment we need to do our job is quite expensive, so we have to be careful not to overinvest in the IT overhead for our LOB application. Our solution: Benefits: Our solution couples all of the manageability and pricing advantages of Windows EBS 2008 Premium with the business intelligence of Dynamics AX. |
Adding Capabilities | Bus Integrator Challenge: Our firm integrates bus systems and assembles custom buses for cities around the world. We currently have 200 employees, but we started out as 20 engineers a couple of years ago. Our IT infrastructure grew up with us, starting with our first server that we got to handle file storage and printing. Windows Essential Business Server 2008 represented a great opportunity for us, but we decided not to take it: for us, it did not make sense to commit to the same refresh cycle for all of our servers when our infrastructure already contained many of the components included in Windows EBS. Instead, we are virtualizing some of our servers to better utilize the server hardware we already have and improve our existing investments in IT. Our solution: |
