Silmar SPb replaced the office software

On September 29, 2014 the Silmar SPb company announced connection of Microsoft Office 365 service in product quality of ensuring business activity of office of the company. Assistance was rendered by Soft management company.

Project Tasks

With business growth the logistic company "Silmar SPb" faced technical difficulties: risks of data loss because of failures, difficulty in information exchange with remote offices. The central office of the company in St. Petersburg, representations – in Moscow, China, Italy, Spain and Germany.

The company began to experience difficulties in the field of IT with growth of the customer base: losses of communication with the Chinese office, synchronization of data with failures and delay.

"It was necessary to monitor strictly the number of the place on disks: because of its shortage mail could not reach for hours, – Kirill Yashchenko, the Chief information officer Silmar SPb noted. – In logistics such problems are fraught with failure of orders and even loss of clients. Besides, we were regularly forced to copy data to ensure their safety".

Selecting the solution capable to save the company from problems, the management Silmar SPb formulated a number of criteria.

• the price should be not above expenses on the used solution.
• the product should "live" equally well on different mobile platforms.
• settings should be simple, and support of service – reliable.

As a result selected service for the organization of jobs Office 365.

Project Progress

The project of transfer took about a week: for several days data transferred from the old server to new, carried out reconfiguration of client places. Point setup of separate services took two more days.

Project Results

"Silmar SPb became one of the first Russian users of Office 365, – Maxim Gavrilov, the CEO of Soft management company noted. – The methodology then only formed, but even despite it, no global problems during implementation arose".

With implementation the company received wide functionality and problem solving. Due to implementation of a mail service of Exchange Online and failure from services of data center expenses of the company were cut down. Use of the SharePoint service which is not requiring additional payment increased efficiency of interaction between departments: now employees, irrespective of their location, can browse and edit the documents loaded by colleagues.