Softline upgraded the mail system "Administrations of the Polar Area"

May 20, 2015. The Softline company announced project completion on upgrade of a mail system of Administration of the Polar area based on the solution Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.

Goals and Objectives

For conducting mail communications the staff of Administration of the Polar area used public free services. But this approach did not meet safety requirements. In addition to cybersecurity risks, process of interaction was complicated by use of the general postal addresses by groups of persons, lack of personalisation of sending and obtaining messages. The centralized system of exchange of e-mails was necessary for administration.

Choosing a Solution

For the solution of an assigned task the staff of department of informatization, automation and maintenance of organization selected the product Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 allowing to control productive and safe work of users in a mail system. In view of remote arrangement of an object testing was held using interviewing of specialists of the customer. Questions included assessment of a status of the existing infrastructure blocks and also development plans and scaling of the mail solution.

Project Progress

In the announced tender for the choice of the partner the main criterion was experience in implementations of similar projects and readiness of integrator for further scaling and a full support of a system. The victory was won by the Softline company having long-term experience of creation and upgrade of the systems of exchange of e-mails and having the highest partner statuses of Microsoft.

Having studied features of IT infrastructure of the customer and having revealed the main requirements to the platform of mail communications, specialists of department of solutions of Microsoft of Softline company implemented the solution Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 expected support of 200 users. Then provided necessary personnel training of the customer, made necessary instructions for work with Web Access services and prolongation of safety certificates. All this needed to be made to facilitate process of transition of administration to a mail system.

Result

As to the customer failsafe and effective solution which will be scaled further on 200 mailboxes was required, specialists of Softline constructed a system using technologies of virtualization and also developed and tested data transfer mechanisms on the new platform. In a project deliverable the customer received the centralized mail solution conforming to all requirements.

In a project deliverable the customer received a safe, failsafe and scalable mail solution, representatives of the company integrator reported TAdviser.

"We cooperate with Softline for a long time, and specialists of this company once again successfully implemented assigned tasks. Implementation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 took place without difficulties and without need to interrupt workflow. Now we consider plans of further development of a system. It is expected that the customer's users in the territory of all Polar area will be connected to it", - Vladimir Chuprov, the head of department of informatization, automation and maintenance of Administration of the Polar area told.

"Thanks to implementation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 it became much simpler to management of Administration of the Polar area to exercise control and to ensure safety of the organization, and to the employees - to cope with the growing volumes of e-mails. The created solution increased efficiency of team work which is an important factor in modern conditions of multitasking" — Rustem Zabirov, the manager of projects of department of solutions of Microsoft of Softline company commented on project results.