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Email & Collaboration

Consolidation & Optimization

 

 

Improve your performance while reducing your costs by consolidating your email and collaboration systems

The Situation and Challenge

Organizations are constantly striving to do more with less. It’s quite likely that you are being asked to reduce the total cost of ownership of your IT infrastructure while meeting increasing demands for reliability, security and performance. Email and collaboration systems are no exception. Consolidating and optimizing infrastructure is one way that you can make progress toward several key objectives simultaneously.

Corporate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, as well as normal platform end-of-life or upgrade cycles, often create opportunities for infrastructure consolidation and optimization. These events can generate requirements like the consolidation of mail domains or ensuring consistent use of the latest release of a particular software product. Whatever your reasons for pursuing consolidation, these projects can be quite complex and time consuming. Careful planning and attention to detail are critical to ensure that the benefits of the improved infrastructure are achieved with minimal disruption.

The Wolcott Solution

Wolcott can help you to reduce the time and expense of consolidating and optimizing your email and collaboration systems. Our consultants are vendor certified and have years of experience in consolidation and optimization projects. They employ a proven consolidation methodology and advanced optimization tools from Binary Tree and Quest Software as well as our own award-winning software, Automated Deployment Toolkit (ADT).   Our approach ensures that your consolidation projects will meet or exceed your requirements.

The Solution’s Value

Over the last 14 years, our consultants have helped organizations to save a significant portion of the time and costs involved with consolidating IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, Microsoft Exchange, directories, LDAP, Active Directory, Live Communications Server, Microsoft file and print services, and more.

  • Reduce your operating costs: reduce cost of overhead, software, maintenance, and support

  • Improve your security: fewer systems to maintain and patch

  • Improve your network performance: better throughput and less traffic between servers

  • Simplify your continuity planning: reducing server counts decreases the number of potential failure points

The Proof of Our Success

Wolcott is an IBM Premier Business Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and has vast experience with consolidating and optimizing IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange email systems and other collaborative technologies.

  • Over 14 years of experience in optimizing collaborative infrastructure

  • Over 300,000 email accounts consolidated

  • A typical consolidation project results in a 50% reduction of servers

  • Developed our own award-winning software (ADT) to accelerate email consolidations,
    migrations, and upgrades

  • Unmatched experience with concurrent migration/consolidations between Novell GroupWise, Exchange and Notes

 
 

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