The Eurasian construction company passes to the upgraded platform of communications

The Softline company completed the complex project on data migration of Eurasian Construction Company Ltd from the system of the joint communications of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 on Lync Server 2010, the press service of integrator reported on November 1, 2012

Background

the companies have an experience of cooperation in the field of integration of IT solutions therefore the choice of Softline as the contractor is obvious.

The project in management company of holding - pilot also did not demand big investments, he also allowed to estimate system advantages in the conditions of specific production and to make the weighed decision on its scaling.

Solution

Project implementation is complete in several stages.

On the first specialists of Softline book audit of a directory service of the Active Directory, audit of the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 system existing at that time for identification of correct functioning of both services.

The next stage specialists of the contractor carried out works on implementation and the Lync Server 2010 setup and also check of its correct work before migration of users. Is important the fact that in the course of the Lync Server 2010 setup integration of a system with the existing telephone exchange of the company is made - it gave the chance to employees to make and accept telephone calls, using the client of Microsoft Lync. At the final stage migration of all users of the enterprise on a new system then OCS 2007 R2 is deleted was performed.

All technical works it was carried out in cooperation with specialists of holding.

"We, certainly, are happy with the updated system of communications. Company performance noticeably increased. Lync Server 2010 facilitated communication of employees, having allowed them to contact colleagues if necessary quickly. The number of internal meetings was reduced more than twice, at the same time need of a binding to the location of participants of a meeting disappeared. The quality of audio-and video conferences also increased. A system could not work as effectively earlier as now – with the new version and settings. All works were performed just in time, integration with existing applications took place successfully", – Andrey Gordeev, the Chief information officer of Eurasian Construction Company Ltd noted.

Summary

Project implementation and such benefits as simplification of process of use of construction tools of audio-and video conferences, reduction of cost of ownership of the system of the joint communications, a possibility of implementation of calls to public telephone subscribers allowed to gain the subsequent development of the implemented system of the joint communications.