Scholle had an older, decentralized Novellbased
infrastructure that limited
communications options, saddled the IT
staff with excessive management chores,
and frequently failed.
The document discusses Novell's collaboration product roadmap and solutions. It covers challenges around workforce expectations, data growth, and collaboration tools. Novell's solutions include GroupWise for email, calendaring and contacts, Teaming for team workspaces and workflows, and Conferencing for virtual meetings. Roadmaps focus on interoperability, mobility, administration improvements, and integrating tools like Pulse. GroupWise will add conferencing and Teaming integrations while a future "Windermere" release explores Active Directory support and enhanced experiences. Teaming will simplify its interface and enable real-time collaboration through integrations with Novell's products.
Dell uses outsourcing and cloud computing to simplify its interactions with thousands of trading partners. It decommissions over 200 servers and reduces partner onboarding times from months to days by moving these processes to Inovis' cloud platform. Dell now manages 5 million daily transactions across over 2,000 trading partners using a single global platform.
Electric Supply Distributor deploys virtual desktops for increased mobility, productivity and business continuity. Revere Electric Supply keeps its remote workers productive with RingCube vDesk which was chosen over VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in Travel and HospitalityNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
Europe’s oldest luxury hotel group, Kempinski, uses Novell Collaboration tools to meet its IT needs.
Desktop Transformation Success - The 5 Secrets to Delivering User Satisfactio...eG Innovations
RES and eG Innovations combine best-of-breed virtual desktop management solutions to deliver maximum user productivity and satisfaction while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of managing hybrid desktop environments:
- Deliver secure, personalized and compliant desktops
- Reduce the cost & complexity of user management
- Proactively manage dynamic desktop performance
- Right-size the dynamic desktop environment for maximum ROI
- Deliver on the ROI and user experience promise of desktop transformation initiatives
With Novell Pulse, people continents apart can work together in real-time, sharing and co-browsing information, or creating or editing a document. They can also manage content overload by choosing people and topics to follow. Attend this session to see why the product has generated so much excitement and industry buzz. You'll get a comprehensive feature overview and explore how you can help your users collaborate in real time.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in Retail and ManufacturingNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
This presentation will show you how two retailers and manufacturers in particular- Save Mart Supermarkets, and Richardson- reduced IT costs and benefited from Novell Endpoint Management.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in GovernmentNovell
Novell provides collaboration software solutions that help government agencies increase productivity and reduce costs. The document discusses three government agency case studies that implemented Novell solutions including Open Enterprise Server, GroupWise, and Teaming. The implementations helped consolidate servers, reduce travel expenses, improve collaboration, and lower licensing and support costs compared to other vendors like Microsoft.
The document discusses Novell's collaboration product roadmap and solutions. It covers challenges around workforce expectations, data growth, and collaboration tools. Novell's solutions include GroupWise for email, calendaring and contacts, Teaming for team workspaces and workflows, and Conferencing for virtual meetings. Roadmaps focus on interoperability, mobility, administration improvements, and integrating tools like Pulse. GroupWise will add conferencing and Teaming integrations while a future "Windermere" release explores Active Directory support and enhanced experiences. Teaming will simplify its interface and enable real-time collaboration through integrations with Novell's products.
Dell uses outsourcing and cloud computing to simplify its interactions with thousands of trading partners. It decommissions over 200 servers and reduces partner onboarding times from months to days by moving these processes to Inovis' cloud platform. Dell now manages 5 million daily transactions across over 2,000 trading partners using a single global platform.
Electric Supply Distributor deploys virtual desktops for increased mobility, productivity and business continuity. Revere Electric Supply keeps its remote workers productive with RingCube vDesk which was chosen over VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in Travel and HospitalityNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
Europe’s oldest luxury hotel group, Kempinski, uses Novell Collaboration tools to meet its IT needs.
Desktop Transformation Success - The 5 Secrets to Delivering User Satisfactio...eG Innovations
RES and eG Innovations combine best-of-breed virtual desktop management solutions to deliver maximum user productivity and satisfaction while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of managing hybrid desktop environments:
- Deliver secure, personalized and compliant desktops
- Reduce the cost & complexity of user management
- Proactively manage dynamic desktop performance
- Right-size the dynamic desktop environment for maximum ROI
- Deliver on the ROI and user experience promise of desktop transformation initiatives
With Novell Pulse, people continents apart can work together in real-time, sharing and co-browsing information, or creating or editing a document. They can also manage content overload by choosing people and topics to follow. Attend this session to see why the product has generated so much excitement and industry buzz. You'll get a comprehensive feature overview and explore how you can help your users collaborate in real time.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in Retail and ManufacturingNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
This presentation will show you how two retailers and manufacturers in particular- Save Mart Supermarkets, and Richardson- reduced IT costs and benefited from Novell Endpoint Management.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in GovernmentNovell
Novell provides collaboration software solutions that help government agencies increase productivity and reduce costs. The document discusses three government agency case studies that implemented Novell solutions including Open Enterprise Server, GroupWise, and Teaming. The implementations helped consolidate servers, reduce travel expenses, improve collaboration, and lower licensing and support costs compared to other vendors like Microsoft.
The Attachmate Group is a global organization with 3,600 employees in 30+ countries and annual revenue of $1.1 billion, focusing on products for terminal emulation, legacy modernization, managed file transfer, security, service management, collaboration, endpoint management, file and networking services, and enterprise Linux. Jeff Hawn is the Chairman and CEO, with Charles Sansbury as CFO and COO and other presidents leading the Attachmate, NetIQ, and SUSE business units. The Attachmate Group aims to provide quality products, exceptional service, and an easy business experience.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management for NonprofitsNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
This presentation will show you how three nonprofits in particular- The Atlantic Philanthropies, Vancouver Convention Center, and Sesame Workshop- reduced IT costs and benefited from Novell Endpoint Management.
Novell Teaming offers excellent functionality out of the box. It also offers limitless possibilities for customization based on your organization's needs. Attend this session to learn how easily you can create custom branding elements for your Novell Teaming environment—and how you can create extensions from Novell Teaming to other applications. You'll receive step-by-step instructions on the process from Novell Teaming engineers and experts.
1) The document discusses how Business Builders helps companies improve employee productivity and collaboration through social technologies by empowering employees to configure applications themselves faster, cheaper, and better.
2) Business Builders uses an accelerator program and proven methodology to rapidly launch, support, and scale applications in 8 weeks or less through a self-service model.
3) Their approach has been validated by research firm Gartner and allows companies to enable collaboration both within and between organizations in a structured way at a lower cost than traditional IT deployment methods.
ReadyCloud Collaboration, a Cisco Powered serviceGen-i
The document discusses five essentials for implementing bring your own device (BYOD) in a business: unified network access, identity and policy management, security and remote access, applications, and management. It provides an overview of Cisco products and solutions that can help businesses achieve flexibility and control with BYOD, including tools for network access, identity management, security, and monitoring/troubleshooting BYOD environments. The document also outlines strategies for onboarding user devices and controlling applications and network access based on user, device, location, and time factors.
Novell Support Revealed! An Insider's Peek and Feedback OpportunityNovell
Don't miss the opportunity to interact with key members of the Novell Services team. We are eager to hear from the customers we serve and provide insights to you into our continuous improvement plans aimed at your satisfaction. In this session, you will learn how Novell has worked to maintain our world-class support standards in the face of intense, global economic pressures and challenging industry trends. Take a peek inside the processes of our global support organization, learn about our technological advancements, and provide feedback on our support offerings.
Run Book Automation with PlateSpin OrchestrateNovell
his session will describe how to use PlateSpin Orchestrate for tasks beyond virtualization management. Run Book Automation can support the IT operation in a variety of processes, including monitoring, ticket enrichment, problem diagnosis, change and repair, optimization and virtualization, system management and disaster recovery. IDC predicts that data center management will be required to implement higher automation in all fields of system operation.
This session will show what the typical use cases for Run Book Automation are, how PlateSpin Orchestrate fits the requirement for an automation implementation platform, and where in the enterprise IT infrastructure it can be implemented organically and in manageable steps.
A number of implementation examples, such as a disaster recovery implementation for SAP components, prove that automation is not necessarily a huge step, and that even limited projects can lead to a quick return on investment. Implementation details in code and project examples, a technical demo and a tour of the existing example code will conclude the session.
Web platform to (build, manage and grow business on the web) compose and orch...Saibal Das Chowdhury
Consider Amazon and their Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2, with their shopping mall platform over it, and the ability to allow shop owners to place their group of ‘services’ on top of the Mall platform - This is the IKEA store of software applications where one can compose an application software and then make it orchestrate over a federated network - consuming the service
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in High Tech and Professional Ser...Novell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
Viable, SNT Deutschland AG, RFB Consulting, and Woolpert, Inc are companies in the high tech and professional services field that use Novell Endpoint Management tools, such as Novell ZENworks and others, to meet their IT needs.
Google Apps/UC for Google Apps provides unified communication technology and services. It offers messaging, collaboration and unified communication capabilities through Google Apps Premier Edition and UC for Google Apps Edition. UC for Google Apps Edition integrates unified communication services like unified messaging, presence and desktop integration with Google Apps from esnatech. Google Apps/UC for Google Apps is significantly less expensive than on-premise solutions, requires less administrative effort, and provides a better user experience through innovations like Gmail and Google Docs.
What an Enterprise Should Look for in a Cloud ProviderNovell
This session will address the security and compliance aspects that an enterprise should insist on from a cloud provider. The mechanisms for cloud annexation that provide security and compliance will be described and the architecture of Novell Cloud Security Service will be presented. Presenters will emphasize the contribution that Novell Cloud Security Service makes to intelligent workload management because of cloud security and compliance.
Newgen provided an enterprise content management solution to a leading Indian life insurance company to address challenges around enabling anytime access to electronic policy files across branches, building an image repository from paper files, and reducing storage space. The solution involved archiving over 250 million policy dockets with 7 billion documents, integrating with core systems, and automating workflows for 25 departments. This provided benefits like instant document access, enhanced customer service, secure archiving, and increased productivity.
Dell EMC ProDeploy Plus for Enterprise services deployed
and configured new storage resources and data protection
appliances faster than an in‑house administrator
This document summarizes best practices for implementing Hadoop in an enterprise IT environment. It recommends managing Hadoop as part of corporate IT, not as an isolated "island," and integrating it with existing authentication, monitoring, backup, and alerting systems. It also provides guidance on automating deployment, using configuration management tools, hardware sizing of nodes and clusters, network design, security practices, and vendor support.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in EducationNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
The Spring Independent School District of Houston, Texas, and the Medical College of Georgia, are two educational institutions that employ Novell Endpoint Management tools, such as Novell ZENworks and Novell Configuration Management, to meet their IT needs.
1) Richardson Eyres helped Mourant successfully move its complex blade server and storage infrastructure to a new data center within a fixed timeframe without any major issues.
2) Richardson Eyres designed, integrated, and provided training for a cost effective VMware compatible HP P4000 SAN for Molton Brown, significantly increasing storage capacity and scalability.
3) Richardson Eyres provided two identical enterprise class infrastructures for Plastic Logic's manufacturing plant and datacenter, including HP SANs and tape libraries, ensuring business continuity through replication.
Best Practices for Administering Novell GroupWise 8Novell
The document provides an overview of best practices for administering Novell GroupWise 8. It discusses topics such as system administration, using GWCheck to monitor the system, moving users, and monitoring the system. Specific best practices are outlined for system operations, domains, post offices, message transfer agents, gateways, email addressing, and more. The document aims to help administrators properly configure and maintain their Novell GroupWise 8 environment.
The document discusses a new collaborative software delivery platform that integrates Lotus Connections' social and collaborative capabilities with Rational Team Concert and the Rational Software Development Platform to enable improved collaboration across distributed software development teams and geographies. An example use case is provided that demonstrates how various IBM collaboration tools can be used together to support a social software development process.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in EducationNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The beaver Dam Unified School District, the University of Regensburg, George Washington University, and Tuscaloosa City Schools all employ Novell Collaboration services- from Novell Teaming, to Groupwise, to ZENworks, and more- to meet their IT needs.
Ethos Enterprise Portal Prodoct Features Rev1Bassam AlHakim
The document discusses features of Liferay's web content management, portal, and office collaboration software. It provides over 60 out-of-the-box tools, allows single-click configuration, and integrates with existing systems through its SOA framework. Key benefits include low total cost of ownership, high return on investment, and increased flexibility, productivity, and security for employees, teams, and companies.
NetApp is a $3.3 billion global data management and storage solutions provider with over 7,600 employees. It helps companies store, manage, protect and retain their data more efficiently using its unified storage platform. NetApp's flexible architecture allows customers to scale their infrastructure to match business needs and achieve new capabilities. The company forms strategic partnerships and offers professional services to help customers optimize their storage environments.
The Attachmate Group is a global organization with 3,600 employees in 30+ countries and annual revenue of $1.1 billion, focusing on products for terminal emulation, legacy modernization, managed file transfer, security, service management, collaboration, endpoint management, file and networking services, and enterprise Linux. Jeff Hawn is the Chairman and CEO, with Charles Sansbury as CFO and COO and other presidents leading the Attachmate, NetIQ, and SUSE business units. The Attachmate Group aims to provide quality products, exceptional service, and an easy business experience.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management for NonprofitsNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
This presentation will show you how three nonprofits in particular- The Atlantic Philanthropies, Vancouver Convention Center, and Sesame Workshop- reduced IT costs and benefited from Novell Endpoint Management.
Novell Teaming offers excellent functionality out of the box. It also offers limitless possibilities for customization based on your organization's needs. Attend this session to learn how easily you can create custom branding elements for your Novell Teaming environment—and how you can create extensions from Novell Teaming to other applications. You'll receive step-by-step instructions on the process from Novell Teaming engineers and experts.
1) The document discusses how Business Builders helps companies improve employee productivity and collaboration through social technologies by empowering employees to configure applications themselves faster, cheaper, and better.
2) Business Builders uses an accelerator program and proven methodology to rapidly launch, support, and scale applications in 8 weeks or less through a self-service model.
3) Their approach has been validated by research firm Gartner and allows companies to enable collaboration both within and between organizations in a structured way at a lower cost than traditional IT deployment methods.
ReadyCloud Collaboration, a Cisco Powered serviceGen-i
The document discusses five essentials for implementing bring your own device (BYOD) in a business: unified network access, identity and policy management, security and remote access, applications, and management. It provides an overview of Cisco products and solutions that can help businesses achieve flexibility and control with BYOD, including tools for network access, identity management, security, and monitoring/troubleshooting BYOD environments. The document also outlines strategies for onboarding user devices and controlling applications and network access based on user, device, location, and time factors.
Novell Support Revealed! An Insider's Peek and Feedback OpportunityNovell
Don't miss the opportunity to interact with key members of the Novell Services team. We are eager to hear from the customers we serve and provide insights to you into our continuous improvement plans aimed at your satisfaction. In this session, you will learn how Novell has worked to maintain our world-class support standards in the face of intense, global economic pressures and challenging industry trends. Take a peek inside the processes of our global support organization, learn about our technological advancements, and provide feedback on our support offerings.
Run Book Automation with PlateSpin OrchestrateNovell
his session will describe how to use PlateSpin Orchestrate for tasks beyond virtualization management. Run Book Automation can support the IT operation in a variety of processes, including monitoring, ticket enrichment, problem diagnosis, change and repair, optimization and virtualization, system management and disaster recovery. IDC predicts that data center management will be required to implement higher automation in all fields of system operation.
This session will show what the typical use cases for Run Book Automation are, how PlateSpin Orchestrate fits the requirement for an automation implementation platform, and where in the enterprise IT infrastructure it can be implemented organically and in manageable steps.
A number of implementation examples, such as a disaster recovery implementation for SAP components, prove that automation is not necessarily a huge step, and that even limited projects can lead to a quick return on investment. Implementation details in code and project examples, a technical demo and a tour of the existing example code will conclude the session.
Web platform to (build, manage and grow business on the web) compose and orch...Saibal Das Chowdhury
Consider Amazon and their Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2, with their shopping mall platform over it, and the ability to allow shop owners to place their group of ‘services’ on top of the Mall platform - This is the IKEA store of software applications where one can compose an application software and then make it orchestrate over a federated network - consuming the service
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in High Tech and Professional Ser...Novell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
Viable, SNT Deutschland AG, RFB Consulting, and Woolpert, Inc are companies in the high tech and professional services field that use Novell Endpoint Management tools, such as Novell ZENworks and others, to meet their IT needs.
Google Apps/UC for Google Apps provides unified communication technology and services. It offers messaging, collaboration and unified communication capabilities through Google Apps Premier Edition and UC for Google Apps Edition. UC for Google Apps Edition integrates unified communication services like unified messaging, presence and desktop integration with Google Apps from esnatech. Google Apps/UC for Google Apps is significantly less expensive than on-premise solutions, requires less administrative effort, and provides a better user experience through innovations like Gmail and Google Docs.
What an Enterprise Should Look for in a Cloud ProviderNovell
This session will address the security and compliance aspects that an enterprise should insist on from a cloud provider. The mechanisms for cloud annexation that provide security and compliance will be described and the architecture of Novell Cloud Security Service will be presented. Presenters will emphasize the contribution that Novell Cloud Security Service makes to intelligent workload management because of cloud security and compliance.
Newgen provided an enterprise content management solution to a leading Indian life insurance company to address challenges around enabling anytime access to electronic policy files across branches, building an image repository from paper files, and reducing storage space. The solution involved archiving over 250 million policy dockets with 7 billion documents, integrating with core systems, and automating workflows for 25 departments. This provided benefits like instant document access, enhanced customer service, secure archiving, and increased productivity.
Dell EMC ProDeploy Plus for Enterprise services deployed
and configured new storage resources and data protection
appliances faster than an in‑house administrator
This document summarizes best practices for implementing Hadoop in an enterprise IT environment. It recommends managing Hadoop as part of corporate IT, not as an isolated "island," and integrating it with existing authentication, monitoring, backup, and alerting systems. It also provides guidance on automating deployment, using configuration management tools, hardware sizing of nodes and clusters, network design, security practices, and vendor support.
Novell Success Stories: Endpoint Management in EducationNovell
Novell Endpoint Management benefits are to improve user productivity, lower IT costs, and mitigate risks.
The Spring Independent School District of Houston, Texas, and the Medical College of Georgia, are two educational institutions that employ Novell Endpoint Management tools, such as Novell ZENworks and Novell Configuration Management, to meet their IT needs.
1) Richardson Eyres helped Mourant successfully move its complex blade server and storage infrastructure to a new data center within a fixed timeframe without any major issues.
2) Richardson Eyres designed, integrated, and provided training for a cost effective VMware compatible HP P4000 SAN for Molton Brown, significantly increasing storage capacity and scalability.
3) Richardson Eyres provided two identical enterprise class infrastructures for Plastic Logic's manufacturing plant and datacenter, including HP SANs and tape libraries, ensuring business continuity through replication.
Best Practices for Administering Novell GroupWise 8Novell
The document provides an overview of best practices for administering Novell GroupWise 8. It discusses topics such as system administration, using GWCheck to monitor the system, moving users, and monitoring the system. Specific best practices are outlined for system operations, domains, post offices, message transfer agents, gateways, email addressing, and more. The document aims to help administrators properly configure and maintain their Novell GroupWise 8 environment.
The document discusses a new collaborative software delivery platform that integrates Lotus Connections' social and collaborative capabilities with Rational Team Concert and the Rational Software Development Platform to enable improved collaboration across distributed software development teams and geographies. An example use case is provided that demonstrates how various IBM collaboration tools can be used together to support a social software development process.
Novell Success Stories: Collaboration in EducationNovell
Novell Collaboration benefits are to increase productivity, manage information growth, and leverage investments and skills on Linux.
The beaver Dam Unified School District, the University of Regensburg, George Washington University, and Tuscaloosa City Schools all employ Novell Collaboration services- from Novell Teaming, to Groupwise, to ZENworks, and more- to meet their IT needs.
Ethos Enterprise Portal Prodoct Features Rev1Bassam AlHakim
The document discusses features of Liferay's web content management, portal, and office collaboration software. It provides over 60 out-of-the-box tools, allows single-click configuration, and integrates with existing systems through its SOA framework. Key benefits include low total cost of ownership, high return on investment, and increased flexibility, productivity, and security for employees, teams, and companies.
NetApp is a $3.3 billion global data management and storage solutions provider with over 7,600 employees. It helps companies store, manage, protect and retain their data more efficiently using its unified storage platform. NetApp's flexible architecture allows customers to scale their infrastructure to match business needs and achieve new capabilities. The company forms strategic partnerships and offers professional services to help customers optimize their storage environments.
NetApp is a $3.3 billion global data management and storage solutions provider with over 7,600 employees. It helps companies store, manage, protect and retain their data more efficiently using its unified storage platform. NetApp's flexible architecture allows customers to scale their infrastructure to match business needs and achieve new capabilities. The company forms strategic partnerships and offers professional services to help customers optimize their storage environments.
Effectiveness Improvement and Expenses Reducing Consulting Nadia Shugaly
The document discusses improving company effectiveness through knowledge management. It proposes consolidating an enterprise's information and enabling knowledge sharing and collaboration through a single system. This system would help employees work more efficiently by leveraging existing company knowledge and expertise. Statistics show such systems can reduce expenses by 30-70% by saving time on work, increasing productivity, and automating business processes. The goals are to share knowledge, work, and improve work processes across an organization through a user-friendly global workspace.
1. Coca-Cola Enterprises implemented a digital signage strategy in 2007 but discovered limitations with their current system, including an inflexible user interface, complex content creation process, and inability to refresh content quickly.
2. Cisco Consulting Services interviewed CCE employees and identified challenges around the current system, processes, content, and resources. They recommended upgrading to a new Cisco-based digital signage platform.
3. The new platform improved the user interface, enabled multi-language content creation and real-time updates, and established processes and resources for collaborative content management across locations. CCE expects the system to improve communications and employee engagement.
Dell's IT group was facing capacity constraints with their existing UNIX server system for processing customer orders in the EMEA region. Projections showed orders would outstrip the system's capacity within a few years. Dell implemented a new grid architecture based on Dell PowerEdge servers running Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle eBusiness Suite 11i. This new platform increased processing throughput by at least 100%, reduced order processing time from four hours to less than one, and cut Dell's total cost of IT ownership by 75%.
OpenStack in Action! 5 - Dell - OpenStack powered solutions - Patrick HamoneNovance
This document discusses Dell/Intel OpenStack-powered solutions and provides the following key points:
1) OpenStack is an open-source cloud operating system that is growing rapidly in adoption with over 10,000 individual members and contributors from over 70 countries.
2) Dell offers OpenStack reference architectures, hardware, software, services, and support to help customers accelerate their adoption of private and hybrid cloud solutions based on OpenStack.
3) Case studies show how Dell OpenStack solutions have helped customers like a research university and web hosting provider build scalable, cost-effective private clouds to meet their infrastructure and data storage needs.
Using AWS, Eucalyptus and Chef for the Optimal Hybrid Clouddboze
This document discusses using AWS, Eucalyptus, and Chef to build an optimal hybrid cloud. It addresses problems like cloud costs getting expensive for non-production workloads, developers needing self-service infrastructure, and long provisioning times. The solutions proposed are running non-production stacks in-house on commodity hardware using Eucalyptus and Chef for faster provisioning. Case studies are provided about how Mosaik Solutions uses this approach for development/staging and solving complex geospatial problems more quickly through distributed processing across hybrid cloud resources.
This presentation, featuring partners Microsoft and AvePoint, will demonstrate the benefits of Sharepoint Online and explore how enterprise organisations can manage and develop their solutions in the cloud.
Microsoft Windows Azure - Archetype a Professional Services Company Conserves...Microsoft Private Cloud
Archetype, an interactive design and engineering firm, developed the Archetype Media Platform (AMP) to help customers manage and distribute media assets. It migrated the AMP solution to the Windows Azure platform to gain scalability, reduce development time, and lower costs. Using Windows Azure, Archetype was able to develop additional AMP components quickly and deploy solutions to customers within hours. This streamlined process and pay-as-you-go model of Windows Azure provides cost savings for both Archetype and its customers.
EmaxIT International helped Modern Architecture Contracting Company (MACC) take its business and security performance to new heights by migrating its hosting platform and applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This consolidated MACC's disparate applications onto a single, highly available and scalable cloud platform. It also automated backups, enhanced security through measures like web application firewalls, and reduced operational costs by 30% while increasing efficiency by 20%. EmaxIT provided fully managed AWS services with 24/7 support.
Cisco implemented an ERP system to address issues with its existing systems, including a corrupted database that caused a two-day shutdown. The $15 million ERP implementation was completed in nine months by forming a dedicated team, narrowing the vendor options quickly, and working closely with Oracle as the selected vendor. Cisco also invested $100 million to enable the ERP system through a web-based architecture for benefits like improved employee and customer services. While security was a risk, the $506 million in cost savings justified the overall $115 million expenditure.
Nviron event rerun april 2014 delegate versionnvironltd
The document outlines an agenda for a presentation on Office 365 and connected cloud advances. The agenda includes an overview of Office 365, updates on Microsoft licensing, a discussion of identity and access management services from IAMCLOUD, campus wireless networking from Dell, mobile device management concepts, and a case study on leveraging Office 365 SharePoint. Speakers from Microsoft, IAMCLOUD, Dell, and Nviron will discuss how Office 365 is evolving to provide more capabilities and cost savings, advanced identity management and single sign-on options, wireless infrastructure for mobile devices and BYOD, and how organizations can replace Windows XP and get assistance from Nviron.
Knowledge Management in Organizations: Case StudyManal Rayess
The document summarizes an IT project at ATKINS, a multinational construction company, to implement Microsoft SharePoint across the organization. The goals were to improve knowledge sharing, streamline business processes, and better organize enterprise content. Key benefits included reducing web pages from 6,000 to 300, consolidating redundant documents, facilitating collaboration through communities and projects sites, and automating workflows for approvals and tasks. The new intranet portal improved access to information, insight into business data, and productivity across ATKINS' global workforce.
Big Data Made Easy: A Simple, Scalable Solution for Getting Started with HadoopPrecisely
With so many new, evolving frameworks, tools, and languages, a new big data project can lead to confusion and unwarranted risk.
Many organizations have found Data Warehouse Optimization with Hadoop to be a good starting point on their Big Data journey. Offloading ETL workloads from the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) into Hadoop is a well-defined use case that produces tangible results for driving more insights while lowering costs. You gain significant business agility, avoid costly EDW upgrades, and free up EDW capacity for faster queries. This quick win builds credibility and generates savings to reinvest in more Big Data projects.
A proven reference architecture that includes everything you need in a turnkey solution – the Hadoop distribution, data integration software, servers, networking and services – makes it even easier to get started.
- Dell grew to become the largest PC seller in the 1980s-1990s and held the second spot in computer sales as of 2008.
- Dell's strategy focused on build-to-order manufacturing, partnerships with suppliers for just-in-time components, direct sales to customers, and award-winning support.
- Dell assembled computers based on customer orders and had no inventory, allowing new models to quickly reach customers and avoiding obsolete components in inventory.
CIO | 3 STEPS to Maximizing ROI for Microsoft Lync Enterprise VoiceChristiaan Stavorinus
ENTERPRISES ARE STANDING AT A CROSSROADS AND COMMUNICATION IS KEY TO SUCCESS.
In today’s highly competitive, global marketplace. Executives need to make decisions quickly, but information and employees are spread out in many different locations. To operate efficiently, businesses need fast, simple ways to exchange data.
As a result, many enterprises stand at an important crossroad. They have invested large sums in legacy Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) network voice infrastructures that do not easily support modern Unified Communications (UC) solutions, such as the increasingly popular Microsoft Lync.
“About 70% of businesses are now using Lync in some fashion,” states Irwin Lazar, Vice President and Service Director for The Nemertes Research Group, Inc. “Most of these companies use it for instant messaging, web conferencing, and voice/video chat. A small but growing percentage are using it to replace or augment their PBXs.”
In addition to delivering new communication options, Unified Commu- nications delivers other benefits. By leaving behind their legacy PBX and moving ahead to a new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) network infrastructure, businesses reduce their capital expenditure (CapEx) and lower their ongoing maintenance requirements, which can decrease their operating expenditure (OpEx) by as much as 50%.
The transition from the old to the new works with the right network infrastructure. Enterprises need one that is rock solid. “Today, businesses simply cannot tolerate downtime,” says James Rodd, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Modality Systems, Unified Communications specialists. Businesses must also have a way to integrate their traditional systems with new, modern functions. Finally, they need a solution that offers robust security, so corporate data
is protected as it travels from location to location. To deliver such functionality, enterprises need a Session Border Controller (SBC) that works in conjunction with Lync to enable the delivery of sophisticated voice, data, and video services to enterprise users.
Customer Name: Helvetia
Industry: Financial Services
Location: Switzerland
Number of Employees: 4500
Challenge
• Integrate newly acquired companies and regulatory compliance requirements, faster and at lower cost
• Consolidate to one high availability platform and deliver IT efficiency benefits
Solution
• Created standardized and centralized data center model that was more scalable and agile than existing distributed approach
Results
• Better IT alignment to drive sales, customer retention, and mergers and acquisitions
• Average provisioning times halved
• Virtualization increased from 65% to 85%, reducing server racks from 6 to 0.5
How Partners Are Helping Customers with Novell TeamingNovell
Novell Teaming brought next-generation team collaboration capabilities to the Novell portfolio. And Novell Teaming 2 offers even more to make your teams as productive as possible. In this session you'll hear from two Novell partners with significant experience deploying Novell Teaming in customer environments. Join them to learn about the success they've seen as organizations leverage the product's innovative team workspace, document management, knowledge retention and workflow capabilities.
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are a critical component of their blueprint. Although the value drivers such as cost cutting, the promise of
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Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans. The classical swine flu virus (an influenza type A H1N1 virus) was first isolated from a pig in 1930.
Radio Flyer chose a Microsoft BI solution over Oracle and SAP Business Objects because it provided better insight for decision making with less IT involvement at a lower total cost of ownership. The Microsoft solution centralized data from various systems into a SQL Server data warehouse and cubes that powered dashboards, standardized reports, and ad hoc analyses in Excel. This enabled executives and analysts to access timely, detailed information for improved operations and planning with minimal IT support.
“NEC has a very aggressive target for its return
on investment in this revolutionary Web-based tool. It
is the convergence of technology and business
opportunity that is making it possible.”
Altman Weil, Inc. and Project Leadership Associates, Inc. announced a strategic alliance agreement to provide consulting services to the legal industry. The companies will combine their expertise in areas like strategy, management, finance, mergers, compensation, business development, strategic execution, operational guidance, legal applications, and infrastructure design. They have already undertaken joint projects with law firm and corporate clients. The alliance will develop new offerings that leverage each company's strengths, such as pricing strategies and project management.
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"Project Leadership Associates, Inc. (PLA) is the largest provider of business and
technology consulting solutions, focused on the US legal market. Since 1998, PLA has
served more than 350 global and US law firm and corporate legal departments of all
sizes."
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to improve email availability and reduce costs. Exchange Server 2010 provides high availability through database availability groups between sites and a co-location facility. This prevents email outages. It also improves compliance capabilities through multi-mailbox searches and improved retention policies. Storage costs are reduced through more efficient storage configurations. Administration is simplified through role-based access control and delegated tasks. Users benefit from improved performance and a more robust platform. Overall, the upgrade enhances client service while controlling IT costs.
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“We told everyone in advance that the new phone
book was going to be a killer intranet application,
so it was important for us to nail that one.
Working with PLA, we did.”
NEC is launching two web applications called Vukunet and Advuku to automate the digital place-based advertising process. This will allow advertisers to identify potential networks, negotiate ad placements, manage campaigns, and access daily proof-of-play reports. NEC expects this solution to significantly increase revenues by expanding the market and delivering the fastest payback in company history. The applications were built using Microsoft technologies like SQL Server and .NET to provide reliability, scalability and a user-friendly interface.
Altman Weil, Inc. and Project
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alliance agreement. Both firms provide strategic advisory and consulting services to the
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1. Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization
Customer Solution Case Study
Manufacturer Ups Efficiency and Agility, Cuts
IT Costs by $325,000, with New Software
Overview “With the Microsoft business productivity
Country or Region: United States
Industry: Manufacturing—Packaging
infrastructure, we have the flexibility to integrate the
latest Microsoft solutions.… This is a real competitive
Customer Profile
Scholle Packaging designs and
advantage for us.”
manufactures bag-in-box packaging for the Keith Anderson, Manager, Global Network Systems, Scholle Packaging
food, beverage, and industrial markets. The
company employs 1,800 people and has Scholle Packaging is the leader in bag-in-box packaging for the
20 manufacturing plants around the world.
food, beverage, and industrial markets. When Scholle began
Business Situation producing products globally rather than regionally, employees
Scholle had an older, decentralized Novell-
based infrastructure that limited around the world needed better ways to communicate, but the
communications options, saddled the IT company’s older, decentralized server infrastructure was a barrier
staff with excessive management chores,
and frequently failed. to flexible communications and business agility. Scholle used its
Microsoft® Enterprise Agreement to cost-effectively overhaul its
Solution
Scholle upgraded and consolidated its core business productivity and core IT infrastructures. It deployed
infrastructure using Windows Server® modern communications and collaboration software to facilitate
2008 with Hyper-V™, and deployed a suite
of Microsoft® business productivity information sharing and problem solving across the company. Using
software to enhance collaboration. Microsoft virtualization and management software, Scholle avoided
Benefits U.S.$325,000 in hardware and staffing costs while reducing server
More agile responsiveness downtime by 60 percent. Employees are more productive, and the
Faster product design
Hardware cost avoidance of IT staff more responsive to business needs.
U.S.$250,000
IT staff cost avoidance of $75,000
Downtime reduced by 60 percent
2. “Teams wanted to use Situation infrastructure wouldn’t support them. Also,
Scholle Packaging, headquartered in Irvine, because we couldn’t give vendors and
instant messaging, California, invented bag-in-box packaging customers access to our file-shares for
Skype, blogs, forums, (think boxed wine) more than 60 years ago security reasons, we had to use e-mail as a
and has since evolved into a world leader of collaboration method. Management issued a
wikis, video flexible packaging solutions for the food, mandate to reduce time-to-market for new
conferencing, and other beverage, and industrial markets. Scholle has products, and our messaging infrastructure
1,800 employees, 20 manufacturing was slowing us down.”
innovative locations on five continents, and sells its
communication products in more than 60 countries. A richer, more flexible communications
infrastructure could also facilitate work on
methods, but our Novell For years, Scholle was organized regionally, the company’s multiple LEAN initiatives,
infrastructure wouldn’t with each geographical region developing and which required input from staff members all
marketing products for its market. This led to over the world. (LEAN is a manufacturing
support them.” a great deal of duplicate effort and products. efficiency program that seeks to eliminate
Keith Anderson, Manager, Global Network In 2006, management decided to restructure waste from business processes.) Scholle
Systems, Scholle Packaging the business horizontally around strategic LEAN teams hold several weeklong events
business units, each tasked with developing throughout the year where staff members
products for a global market. focus on improving particular processes.
Team members communicated through
E-Mail Messaging Insufficient overseas conference calls, sending
With this horizontal restructuring, teams were documents back and forth as e-mail attach-
suddenly working with colleagues around the ments. Overseas calls were expensive and
world rather than with people in their own involved late-night meetings for many staff
region. It became apparent that the members. Communicating by e-mail was
company’s older Novell-based messaging frustrating with so many parties involved, and
infrastructure provided limited it burdened the messaging system.
communication and collaboration options.
“Basically, all we had was e-mail and Server Downtime Interrupts Business
telephones,” says Keith Anderson, Manager All of the company’s Novell servers were out
of Global Network Systems for Scholle of warranty, and its operating systems and
Packaging. “This wasn’t enough to Microsoft® Office productivity programs were
communicate effectively between plants in out-of-date. The older servers failed
different countries and time zones.” frequently, for 24 hours or longer, which
slowed or stalled production, delayed
Employees experienced huge time lags as shipments, and sometimes upset customers.
they waited for e-mail message replies from Returning servers to service was difficult,
colleagues on the other side of the globe. because Scholle had IT staff in only 5 of its
Engineers spent hours assimilating edits to 27 server locations.
large CAD files that coworkers sent as e-mail
attachments. “E-mail messaging served its “We were reactive in server management,”
purpose, but we needed more than e-mail to Anderson says. “If a server broke at a location
succeed in fast-moving global markets,” with no IT staff, we had to work with the local
Anderson says. “Teams wanted to use instant staff to identify and install needed parts. We
messaging, Skype, blogs, forums, wikis, video also flew IT staff around the world to perform
conferencing, and other innovative server upgrades.” Also, because there were
communication methods, but our Novell no IT staff members in most plant locations,
3. “We looked at Scholle could not securely place domain understand how the Microsoft Infrastructure
controllers there, which forced local users to Optimization model could help Scholle
communications and authenticate over the wide-area network, a employees be more productive and IT staff be
collaboration solutions slow and often frustrating process. more effective and efficient.
from Novell, Oracle, and In addition, many newer business applica- “We looked at communications and
Microsoft, but the tions that Scholle added needed to connect collaboration solutions from Novell, Oracle,
to the enterprise e-mail system for sending and Microsoft, but the Microsoft solution set
Microsoft solution set alerts and providing other e-mail integration offered the centralized, integrated
offered the centralized, services. However, it was time-consuming, management solutions we were looking for,”
and sometimes impossible, to integrate the Anderson says. “Novell’s solutions seemed
integrated management applications with Novell GroupWise like a forced fit and based on old protocols,
solutions we were messaging software; once integrated, the and Oracle’s products solved some issues
new applications were often unreliable. but not all.”
looking for.”
Keith Anderson, Manager, Global Network When the company restructured, the IT staff Rapid, Economical Infrastructure
Systems, Scholle Packaging was asked to do more but not given more Replacement
resources; in fact, IT headcount was cut. Yet Scholle decided to deploy an integrated suite
two full-time staff members were dedicated of Microsoft business productivity
to managing the 18 GroupWise messaging infrastructure products:
servers. “I wanted my people to work on new
solutions that impacted the business, not on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007—
messaging services, which I consider a messaging and calendaring software
utility,” Anderson says. Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007—
collaboration software
Solution Microsoft Office Professional 2007—
Anderson knew that Scholle needed to productivity programs
modernize its communications and Microsoft Office Communications Server
collaboration infrastructure, consolidate and 2007—software that integrates instant
centralize servers, and simplify IT messaging, presence, Web conferencing,
management tasks if the company was to and software-powered voice over Internet
continue to grow. He envisioned a Protocol (VoIP)
centralized, flexible messaging and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007—a
collaboration infrastructure that would give unified communications client that people
global employees plenty of options for use to move seamlessly between e-mail
sharing information. He wanted the core messaging, instant messaging, voice, and
infrastructure to be consistent and easy to video communications from within any
manage, and to offer common functionality— Microsoft Office application
such as user account information, workflows,
and search—that could be centrally Modernizing its business productivity
maintained and reused across multiple infrastructure and replacing the older Novell
applications. servers would require about 25 new servers,
however, which was a significant expense. At
Integrated Productivity Suite that point, PLA introduced Scholle to the
In 2008, Scholle sought the help of Project Windows Server® 2008 operating system
Leadership Associates (PLA), a Microsoft Gold with Hyper-V™ virtualization technology,
Certified Partner in Chicago, Illinois, to better which would enable Scholle to move forward
4. with its business productivity enhancement Unified Communications
with about one-third the expected server Scholle runs Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
expenses. Scholle was able to replace 40 on a cluster of four physical servers in the
Novell servers in 27 locations with 13 new Scholle data center, which provides nonstop
Windows Server 2008–based servers in 4 reliability and easy IT oversight. Scholle
locations. employees now have conveniences such as
shared calendars, which they did not have in
PLA also helped Scholle get the maximum GroupWise, and a far more intuitive e-mail
benefit from its investment in the Microsoft client (the Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007
Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) Suite, messaging and collaboration client). “Training
which gives organizations an easy way to takes no time, because most employees have
license 11 popular Microsoft business used Office Outlook at home, in school, or in
productivity infrastructure programs. Until previous jobs,” Anderson says. “In contrast, it
then, Scholle had only taken advantage of the took a month or more for employees to learn
Windows Server 2003 operating system to GroupWise.” Employees similarly embraced
“It was far more cost- run custom and third-party business Office Communications Server 2007 with no
effective to license applications and Microsoft SQL Server® 2005 formal training.
data management software. “It was far more
these new programs cost-effective to license these new programs With this integrated suite of communications
through the Enterprise through the Enterprise CAL, since we were technologies, Scholle employees now have
rolling out so many Microsoft solutions,” access to security-enhanced instant
CAL, since we were Anderson says. “It also helps us to stay messaging, presence, computer-based Web
rolling out so many current with the latest releases, which has conferencing, and software-powered VoIP.
always been a struggle.” This abundance of flexible communications
Microsoft solutions. It options helps project teams collaborate
also helps us to stay PLA provided overall project management, faster and more easily. For example,
best-practices guidance, help with setting up international design teams can use the
current with the latest virtual machines, assistance in deploying presence indicator to see if colleagues are
releases.” Exchange Server 2007 and migrating online any time of the day or night, to get fast
mailboxes from GroupWise, help migrating answers to questions over instant messaging.
Keith Anderson, Manager, Global Network the company’s directory structure from Novell With just a few mouse clicks, they can add
Systems, Scholle Packaging eDirectory to Active Directory® Domain new people to the conversation and even
Services, and more. “There’s no way that we escalate the conversation to an audio or Web
could have tackled this ambitious project conference.
ourselves,” Anderson says.
“Presence, Web conferencing, and instant
The business productivity optimization project messaging are big home runs with Office
began in January 2008 and ended in August Communications Server 2007,” Anderson
2008. In just seven months, Scholle was able says. “If I get an e-mail message from
to completely replace its companywide someone and see from the presence
business productivity infrastructure and indicator that they are online, I can send
consolidate servers for easier management them an instant message and get an answer
and more flexible response to business without waiting on, or burdening, our e-mail
needs. system. Communication across the company
is much faster now. Also, we had no chat
capability before, because we didn’t want our
intellectual property being discussed across
5. our firewall. With Office Communications so executives can access it anytime, from any
Server 2007, we have secure instant Web browser.
messaging that can be monitored.”
The packaging group created a SharePoint
Scholle is interested in pursuing additional site where executives and upper-level
communications enhancements: replacing its management can collaborate on daily,
branch-office PBX systems with Office weekly, and monthly financial, marketing, and
Communications Server 2007 VoIP; market-assessment information. Participants
integrating e-mail, voice-mail, and fax inboxes are able to post information in real time for
through Exchange Server 2007 unified rapid consumption and feedback, rather than
communications; and implementing Microsoft waiting to discuss it in monthly meetings.
RoundTable™ conferencing and collaboration
devices in branch offices. RoundTable is a Another SharePoint site provides a forum in
video conferencing phone that captures and which the 27 Scholle manufacturing facilities
broadcasts a 360-degree view of everyone in can report quality issues as they arise, rather
a meeting room. RoundTable follows the than sharing them through lengthy e-mail
conversation and broadcasts a close-up of trails and waiting for replies.
the speaker.
Virtualization, Centralized Management
Online Collaboration The company’s business productivity
Teams across Scholle have also embraced infrastructure now relies on 13 physical
Office SharePoint Server 2007 for posting servers running Windows Server 2008
and sharing documents, creating blogs and Datacenter with Hyper-V. To date, Anderson
collaborative Web sites (wikis), sharing has created 143 virtual machines on these
project calendars, hosting discussion groups, 13 servers, which host the company’s
providing contact lists, and more. To date, messaging, collaboration, and file-server
about 120 teams have created their own workloads. Guest servers (virtual machines
SharePoint team sites, and Anderson has running on a host server) run the Windows
moved the corporate intranet to Office Server 2008 Standard and Windows Server
SharePoint Server 2007. All information 2003 Standard operating systems.
across all the SharePoint sites is searchable,
and business users have the ability to control Scholle still has about 20 stand-alone
document-access rights without going application servers that will eventually be
through the IT staff. Scholle uses SQL Server moved to virtual machines. In the meantime,
2005 to store its SharePoint site documents Scholle has connected them to its Active
and data. Directory Domain Services directory structure,
which has made them much easier to
Scholle Corporate, for example, has created a manage. Scholle also found it easy to
SharePoint site where the chief financial integrate third-party applications such as the
officer posts monthly financial reports and Baan enterprise resource planning system
announcements for Scholle executives. with Active Directory and Exchange Server
Previously, this information was sent in e-mail 2007. Anderson was able to use Active
messages or shared in conference calls that Directory Domain Services to create a single
were tricky to organize because of multiple sign-on to all key applications, which
schedules and time zones. Now, the simplifies logon procedures for employees.
information is always online and up-to-date,
6. “I can see from Office In plant sites where there is no IT staff, Using server virtualization, Scholle was able
Scholle uses read-only domain controller to avoid a U.S.$250,000 hardware expense
Communicator that a (RODC) technology in Windows Server 2008 and a $75,000 IT salary. The more reliable
colleague in Brazil is to deploy a Server Core installation of the infrastructure has led to a 60 percent
operating system that hosts read-only reduction in downtime, which further
online, tell him or her partitions of the Active Directory Domain increases companywide productivity.
what I need, and get an Services database. An RODC provides a
security-enhanced way to deploy a domain More Agile Responsiveness
immediate response.” controller in locations that require fast and With its integrated business productivity
Keith Anderson, Manager, Global Network reliable authentication services but cannot infrastructure, Scholle employees are able to
Systems, Scholle Packaging ensure physical security for a writeable distribute and share information much faster,
domain controller. which increases productivity, speeds problem
resolution, and increases overall business
Scholle is deploying several Microsoft System agility. Management has access to fresh
Center data-center solutions to centralize and financial and operational data throughout the
further simplify the management of its server day, rather than waiting for conference calls
and client computers: to be organized. Employees throughout the
company can contact one another over
Microsoft System Center Configuration instant messaging and Web conferencing to
Manager 2007 is used to automate the resolve issues the very same day, or hour,
deployment of operating systems, rather than waiting for meetings or wading
applications, and security updates to through lengthy e-mail threads. Using the
computers in any location, and to easily designated SharePoint site, for example, the
report on the company’s technology assets. manufacturing facilities can react to quality
Microsoft System Center Operations issues in minutes or hours rather than days.
Manager 2007 is used to proactively
monitor the company’s distributed servers. The enhanced productivity infrastructure has
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine also positively affected the efficiency of the
Manager 2008, planned for mid-2009, company’s LEAN events. Scholle created a
provides easy physical-to-virtual server SharePoint site for each LEAN initiative, and a
migration, virtual-machine performance sub-site for each event under those
optimization, and easier management of initiatives, where all information related to an
both physical and virtual servers. event is stored. “I can see from Office
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Communicator that a colleague in Brazil is
Manager 2007, also to be deployed in mid- online, tell him or her what I need, and get an
2009, will be used to automate the backup immediate response,” Anderson says. “Just
of data on servers in all locations and store as important as the communication time
that data on both disk and tape. savings is the fact that all documentation is
posted on a SharePoint site for later
Benefits reference.” Although LEAN events still last a
With its new business productivity week, participants save two to three hours
infrastructure, Scholle Packaging can quickly every day during the LEAN event. Instead of
respond to global market demands by working late into the night, they finish by 5:00
enabling employees to communicate and P.M. or earlier.
collaborate faster. Ultimately, these
efficiencies will translate into faster time-to- Use of presence, instant messaging, and
market with new products. audio and Web conferencing across the
7. “Our investment in 13 company similarly accelerate reaction times reduce miscommunication, and accelerate
and enrich phone and e-mail conversations. overall time-to-market.
servers running Hyper-V “We can accomplish in a five-minute Web
gave us the processing conference what previously might have taken Hardware Cost Avoidance of $250,000,
hours,” Anderson says. Staff-Time Reduction of $75,000
equivalent of 143 With its use of Windows Server 2008 with
servers, a hardware cost Scholle also has a technology foundation that Hyper-V, Scholle was able to consolidate 40
can accommodate new productivity-boosting physical servers to 13 physical servers, and
avoidance of innovations without extensive development still increase capacity. “Our investment in 13
$250,000.” work. “With the Microsoft business servers running Hyper-V gave us the
productivity infrastructure, we have the processing equivalent of 143 servers, a
Keith Anderson, Manager, Global Network flexibility to integrate the latest Microsoft hardware cost avoidance of $250,000,”
Systems, Scholle Packaging solutions, third-party software, hosted Anderson says.
solutions, and custom applications,”
Anderson says. “This enables the business to Scholle now has a consistent technology
embrace innovation without technology being infrastructure that is easier to manage and
a barrier. This is a real competitive advantage more flexible, making it possible for the IT
for us.” staff to keep headcount stable as it expands
its IT role. “The IT staff was being asked to
Faster Product Design perform more duties with fewer resources,
Improved productivity is expected to have a and we now have an infrastructure that
long-term positive impact on product enables us to do that,” Anderson says. “The
development. “With a more flexible System Center solutions will give us
communications and collaboration additional efficiencies that will enable us to
infrastructure, we’ll be able to get products to proactively manage our infrastructure, avoid
market faster in our new global business problems that used to eat up huge amounts
structure by connecting team members of time, and automate many routine tasks.
around the world,” Anderson says. We will eliminate the work of one full-time
staff person, valued at $75,000, by
Scholle also is already communicating and consolidating our servers with Hyper-V and
collaborating more closely with customers managing our entire infrastructure with
and the suppliers with whom it works to Microsoft software.”
develop custom products for specific
customer needs. Scholle implemented Scholle has not only reduced IT management
federation in Office Communications Server time and costs, but opened up more
2007 so that employees can extend the possibilities for creating innovative business
efficiencies of presence, group conferencing, solutions that weren’t possible, or were cost-
and instant messaging to these external prohibitive, in a Novell environment. For
users. Anderson’s team is now using Office example, Anderson’s staff recently
SharePoint Server 2007 to build an extranet implemented two new hosted solutions and
that will enable Scholle staff to share was able to use single sign-on created with
documents, online discussions, and Active Directory to enable access to those
development schedules with customers and solutions. “This would not have been easy to
vendors with optimized security. Sharing do with Novell,” Anderson says.
drawings and other project documentation on
SharePoint sites will eliminate the need to
send large documents as e-mail attachments,
8. “IT always seemed to be Downtime Reduced by 60 Percent Anderson says in conclusion. “Business users
Scholle now has a highly available messaging would request a new capability or application,
a roadblock to the and collaboration infrastructure that but it was either not possible or would take
business in our old employees around the world use to months to implement. That is no longer the
communicate without interruptions. case. We can now give business users the
Novell environment. We “Unscheduled Novell downtime averaged 50 power to drive the business. Technology is
can now give business hours annually. In the nine months that we now a help rather than a hindrance.”
have been on the Microsoft infrastructure,
users the power to drive we’ve had 15 hours of unscheduled
the business…. downtime,” Anderson says. “We’re on track to
reduce unscheduled downtime by 30 hours
Technology is now a annually.”
help rather than a
When there is a problem, it’s far easier to
hindrance.” take remedial action. “I’m definitely sleeping
Keith Anderson, Manager, Global Network better at night,” Anderson says of his new
Systems, Scholle Packaging infrastructure’s stability. “I have a very high
comfort level from the fact that all servers are
in locations where we have IT personnel, so if
something happens, we can reduce recovery
time from 24 to 4 hours. Or, using
virtualization, we can transfer workloads to
new virtual machines in minutes. It used to
take 6 hours to set up a physical server; now
it takes 10 minutes to create a virtual
machine.”
Future Improvements
Next, Scholle wants to use its intranet as an
integration point for line-of-business
applications and create workflows inside and
around those applications. For example,
different departments could use SharePoint
sites as a central place for completing and
routing forms or spreadsheets. Other
business groups are very interested in using
wikis, blogs, and social networking features
on their SharePoint sites.
When RoundTable is deployed companywide,
Anderson estimates that Scholle will be able
to reduce travel costs by $8,000 in the first
year, with savings increasing by 10 percent
annually.
“IT always seemed to be a roadblock to the
business in our old Novell environment,”
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Software and Services Microsoft Office
Microsoft Server Product Portfolio − Microsoft Office Communications Server
− Windows Server 2008 Datacenter 2007
− Windows Server 2008 Enterprise − Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
− Windows Server 2008 Standard − Microsoft Office Professional 2007
− Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 − Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
− Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Technologies
− Microsoft System Center Configuration − Active Directory Domain Services
Manager 2007 − Hyper-V
− Microsoft System Center Operations
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Document published June 2009