Customers: Corporate
Diverse industries around the world. All need robust, open-standards messaging.
Whether you work in technology, manufacturing, transportation, hospitality, media, retail, or another industry, your messaging solution needs to be robust, feature-rich, and open. You want a choice of true enterprise clients, and you want the freedom to use any LDAP directory and any storage architecture. You want 99.999% availability and lower administrative overhead. And you need to make all users highly productive, on any desktop OS.
Customer Details
Former mail system
Mixed environment, including Exchange
Strategic goals
- Uniform functionality, groupware
- Reduced administration burden
- More options for desktop OS
Requirement
Retain infrastructure components
Concordia Bus
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
One of the top 10 European transportation groups and the largest in the Nordic countries. With some 9,000 employees, Concordia Bus transports over 240 million passengers each year.
Results with Scalix:
- Richer groupware functionality without adding staff
- Centralized administration for 80+ offices
- More options for desktop OS including full-feature support of Evolution client for Linux desktops
- Avoided premature infrastructure upgrade; retained and leveraged eDirectory
- Reduced administration
- Freedom from vendor lock-in
- Improved support
Customer Details
Former mail system
Mixed Exchange systems
Strategic goals
- Reduce technology lock-in
- Reduce number of servers
- Reduce cost of messaging
Requirement
Full-feature Outlook support
Malmaison Hotels
15 LUXURY HOTELS ACROSS THE UK
The UK’s leading lifestyle hotel group. Malmaison Hotels was awarded AA Hotel Group of the Year for both 2006 and 2007.
Results with Scalix:
- Outlook users retained all features, gained better availability
- Gained full-featured Web client
- Replaced monolithic database with file-based message store
- Reduced number of servers
- Reduced technology lock-in
- Reduced cost of messaging
Customer Details
Former mail system
Mixed Open Mail and Samsung
Strategic goals
- Single unified email system
- Powerful & effective administration
- High-performance Web client for traveling staff
- Full featured Outlook functionality
Requirement
- Open standards
- Equivalent functionality to Exchange
Rezidor Hotel Group
47 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE
One of the world’s fastest growing hospitality management companies, Rezidor Hotel Group operates 248 luxury hotels with nearly 50,000 rooms.
Results with Scalix:
- Single, enterprise-class, standards-based messaging system
- 6,000 users across 60 locations
- Full-featured Web client for traveling staff
- Powerful and effective administration
- Full feature Outlook support
Customer Details
Former mail system
SunOne
Strategic goals
- Integrated email & calendaring solution
- Full feature platform-independent thin client
- Web access for user mobility
Requirement
- Open standards
- Integration with Corporate LDAP Directory
Specsavers Optical Group Ltd.
900+ Locations Worldwide
Largest chain of opticians in the UK. 12,000 employees. Sells over 6 million pairs of eyeglasses a year. Winner of multiple IT awards.
Results with Scalix:
- Preserved low cost of ownership
- Added significant functionality for desktop and mobile users
Customer Details
Former mail system
Samsung
Strategic goals
- Increase enterprise performance
- Reduce IT overhead
- Lower total cost of ownership
Requirement
- Full function Outlook support
- Open standards
Knott GmbH
Offices in 14 Countries
With 1,400 employees, Knott makes industrial components for every major machinery manufacturer in the world.
Results with Scalix:
- Richer groupware functionality
- Better wireless solution
- Reduced IT overhead
- Improved system availability
- More options for desktop OS
Customer Details
Former mail system
Exchange
Strategic goals
Improved system availability
Requirement
Full-feature Outlook support
Maico
SWABIA, GERMANY
Manufacturer of ventilation and building technology systems, Maico came to Scalix when their previous mail server was “bursting from every seam.”
Results with Scalix:
- Reduced messaging costs by 30%
- Outlook users retained all features and are completely satisfied
- Increased messaging system availability to 99.999%
