Real Estate Firm Shanghai Liangyou Streamlines workflow with Windows® 7 Professional - Case Study

1. Windows 7
Customer Solution Case Study
Real Estate Firm Shanghai Liangyou
Streamlines Workflow with Windows® 7
Overview “Overall, Windows 7 helps me navigate my PC faster
Country or Region: China
Industry: Real Estate and Property
and more easily than ever before.”
Management Ing Jia, IT Director, Shanghai Liangyou
Customer Profile
Based in Shanghai, China, Shanghai
Liangyou provides investment,
procurement, sales, rentals, and real Shanghai Liangyou is a leading real estate firm based in Shanghai,
estate management services.
China. It specializes in investment, procurement, sales, rentals, and
Business Situation real estate management. A small business, Shanghai Liangyou has
Shanghai Liangyou needed a high-quality,
affordable way to simplify and accelerate a staff of 23 dedicated employees who oversee more than 450
everyday tasks to increase employee properties managed by the company.
productivity, and strengthen network
security to protect sensitive data.
Since the company relies on sophisticated software databases for
Solution
By deploying Windows 7, Shanghai virtually every business task, having stable, efficient IT systems is
Liangyou was able to speed up essential critical. As IT Director Ing Jia says, “If our systems go down, our
business tasks, boost productivity, and
fortify file and network security. business goes down, so we’re always looking for the most reliable
and economical IT solutions.”
Benefits
 Improved productivity
 Stronger network security The Windows® 7 Professional operating system provided the
 More streamlined workflow
 Seamless integration
solution the company was seeking. With this fast, secure, and user-
 High level of compatibility friendly system, Shanghai Liangyou was able to speed up everyday
tasks, boost productivity, and reinforce its IT infrastructure.

2. Windows 7
Customer Solution Case Study
Real Estate Firm Shanghai Liangyou
Streamlines Workflow with Windows® 7

3. “The whole interface of Situation Improvements to encryption, backup,
Shanghai Liangyou wanted to find a way to maintenance, and file recovery give users
Windows 7 is very user- simplify everyday tasks so employees could peace of mind, knowing that their sensitive
friendly, and the search work more productively. Simultaneously data will remain secure from data losses,
comparing documents side-by-side – accidental deletion, and network intrusion.
feature helps me find files something employees had to do frequently –
and folders incredibly was proving to be time-consuming and Benefits
frustrating, and finding commonly used files
quickly.” and applications was taking longer than Simplifying Routine Tasks
Ing Jia, IT Director, Shanghai Liangyou expected. With Windows 7 sFaster, PCs start and
resume in seconds, so users no longer have
Since the company worked with sensitive to wait several minutes for their systems to
client data, employees worked diligently to respond. The new navigation paradigm,
ensure that all files remained secure. Jia including an enhanced Windows Desktop
employs state-of-the-art technology to encrypt Search feature that scours the entire system,
and back up vital data. Still, company leaders network, or Internet to find exactly what users
wanted to ensure that privileged information are seeking, helps Shanghai Liangyou’s
was never lost due to unexpected data employees save significant amount of time.
losses, malware, or hackers, and were
looking for additional ways to bolster security. “The whole interface of Windows 7 is very
user-friendly, and the search feature helps
Shanghai Liangyou knew it could simplify me find files and folders incredibly quickly,”
everyday tasks and strengthen network and says Jia. “Overall, Windows 7 helps me
document security with the right solution. In navigate my PC faster and more easily than
order to avoid putting undue pressure on ever before.”
already sensitive budget concerns, and to
ensure that it could find a system that was Taskbar personalization features include
compatible with its current infrastructure, the Jump Lists, which allow users to see recently
company leaders had to find a seamless used files simply by hovering over the taskbar
solution at the most cost-efficient price. icon, and Taskbar Pinning, which enables
users to store frequently-used files or folders
Solution in one convenient spot by dragging and
Shanghai Liangyou was able to realize this dropping them directly into the Taskbar.
vision when it turned to Windows 7 Coupled with the Aero® desktop
Professional. Since Windows 7 has an personalization, which allows users to “snap”
intuitive user interface, routine tasks have documents side-by-side for simultaneous
become easier to perform, saving users time viewing, users can now rely on a more
and boosting overall productivity. intuitive workflow that facilitates tremendous
boost to productivity.
Now that users can rely on the nearly
instantaneous search capabilities of Windows “The Taskbar improvements are wonderful,”
7, finding files and folders is faster, and the says Jia. “And being able to snap my
personalization features facilitate faster and documents side-by-side with the Aero
better access to frequently used documents. enhancements is enormously helpful. I

4. “Our goal is to maintain a compare documents all the time, which could tedious and often difficult – so much so that
be quite cumbersome, as I’d have to switch users often avoid the process altogether,
very high compatibility between windows or spend time resizing leaving their documents vulnerable to
with products designed documents on my screen to fit them all in one intrusion or corruption. Windows 7 makes it
view. Now, it only takes a keystroke and simple and straightforward to protect vital
for Windows Vista.” everything is right where I need it.” information.”
Jon deVaan, Senior Vice President of Windows
Core Operating System Division, Microsoft Boosting Security Seamless Compatibility
Corporation As a real estate firm, Shanghai Liangyou Engineered with compatibility in mind,
deals with multiple sets of sensitive data, Windows 7 includes Windows XP Mode,
ranging from personal client information to which allows users to work with XP-based
important statistics and financial data of applications alongside Windows 7
corporations or leasing facilities. That’s why applications on a single desktop. And
the company leaders are meticulous about because nearly all software or devices
keeping files and network systems secure, working on Windows Vista® work with
and employing state-of-the-art software to Windows 7, organizations currently using
help protect all company data. Windows XP or Windows Vista can switch over
to Windows 7 without worrying about
With the Advanced Backup and Restore compatibility issues.
features included with Windows 7, Shanghai
Liangyou’s employees have an extra layer of According to Jon deVaan, Senior Vice
security to shield them from unexpected data President of Windows Core Operating System
losses or accidental file deletion. Backups Division at Microsoft® Corporation, Windows
can be scheduled automatically to protect the 7 was developed to help protect existing
entire network, and Restore Previous Version technology investments. “Our goal is to
reverts to a previously saved version of a file maintain a very high compatibility with
if it has been accidentally deleted of products designed for Windows Vista,” he
modified. says.
“Accidental file
modification or deletion “Accidental file modification or deletion For Jia, this feature is an integral addition to
happens quite frequently,” Jia points out. the operating system. “We had some
happens quite frequently. “Before Windows 7, losing a document could employees using Windows Vista and some
Before Windows 7, losing mean hours of painstaking recreation. But using Windows XP, so we were a bit
with the Windows 7 Advanced Backup concerned that the transition to Windows 7
a document could mean feature, files are automatically backed up would be time-consuming and confusing,” he
hours of painstaking across PCs and even the entire network, so says. “But it was remarkably simple to switch
document loss is a problem of the past.” over and start using Windows 7 right away.
recreation. But with the We could even continue using Windows XP
Windows 7 Advanced In addition, the Encrypting File System and Windows Vista applications without
feature provides user-level file and folder updating or changing a thing. I’d recommend
Backup feature, files are encryption, giving the users strong data businesses switch over right away for this
automatically backed up protection and control. “The encryption is a feature alone.”
great addition to Windows 7,” Jia remarks.
across PCs and even the “For the average user, encryption can be
entire network, so
document loss is a
problem of the past.”
Ing Jia, IT Director, Shanghai Liangyou

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For more information about Shanghai
Dongji Digital Technology Co. products and
services, call 021-32275500 or visit the
Web site at: www.softcenter.com.cn
For more information about Shanghai
Liangyou products and services, call 021-
68876366 or visit the Web site at:
www.liangyoufc.com.cn
Software and Services
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Document published June 2009