Case Studies About Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Hosted Services

"By filtering spam, viruses, and oversized attachments before they arrive at our network, we estimate that we’re freeing one-third of our bandwidth. That improves performance and saves thousands of dollars a year."
-- Adam Bresson, Corporate IT Manager, Montgomery and Co.

After deploying the EHS spam- and virus-filtering and message-archiving solutions, Allen Matkins was able to reduce spam-related costs by $400,000, or $200 per user per year; reduce IT support calls by 4 percent; and reduce junk mail by 95 percent.

Exchange Hosted Continuity gave 3D/I an easy-to-deploy, user-friendly solution to ensure that employees companywide had uninterrupted access to communications even if the worst had come to pass.

RSM EquiCo Capital Markets subscribed to the Microsoft® Exchange Hosted Archive service and easily passed two audits within three months-the NASD audit and a surprise audit by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Later, when the firm needed to retrieve e-mail messages for a legal suit, the process was smooth and painless.

As a result of implementing the EHS spam-filtering solution, Carlyle has dramatically cut its unsolicited e-mail, resulting in reduced operating costs and time savings for the IT department. Also, because the firm's investment professionals no longer have to spend their time deleting spam messages, they have been able to increase their productivity.

eBay consolidated their messaging server by 71 percent, reduced mailbox costs by 70 percent, cut the time to add mailboxes down to one day, and increased administrator productivity by 400 percent.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers migrated from Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. The IT manufacturer was able to reduce server locations 95 percent.

By switching to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, The Weather Channel easily integrates its workflow applications into its other business systems and offers more functionality for local and remote users.

Capgemini saves 30-35 percent in mailbox costs per year and provides mobile access by switching from Novell GroupWise to Exchange Server 2003.

Siemens deployed Exchange Server 2003 across 130 business units worldwide, unifying on a single Active Directory forest, which reduces the cost of installing, supporting, and managing its messaging environment, while increasing user productivity.

By consolidating their multiple messaging systems worldwide on Exchange Server 2003, Nissan will save $135 million through better collaboration and faster time-to-market.

After weeks of troubleshooting a problem with displaying conference room availability, TECT Corporation ran Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer and resolved the issue with the added benefit of reducing their Exchange-related help desk calls by 25 percent.

With Exchange Intelligent Message Filter Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2, Skyguide captures 98 percent of spam, compared to 68 percent with their previous third-party solution, and their time spent reviewing quarantined messages has decreased by a third.