microsoft in case studies
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study Ashurst has been using technology from email management specialist Mimecast to manage its Microsoft Exchange and Outlook applications. International law firm Ashurst LLP has turned to web-based email management to help drastically reduce spam and... [15 Jul 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has had a mixed reaction from pundits and potential customers and there is still a strong inclination among the company's user base to cling on to older iterations of Windows... [30 May 2008]
Musical retailer improves stock visibility
Case Study The K3 system, based on Microsoft's Navision application allows Digital Village staff to view live stock and general ledger information. Pro audio music retailer Digital Village implemented a retail software management system to improve... [08 Apr 2008]
Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade
Case Study Leeds City Council has saved taxpayers' money and minimised disruption by using an automated software auditing tool to ease a major Microsoft Windows IT upgrade. Say what? Find out all about BBC iPlayer, Google Android, Femtocells and more in... [28 Mar 2008]
McLaren in pole position with data
Case Study McLaren Electronic Systems (MES) has been using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as it prepares for the 2008 Formula One season opener in Australia on 16 March. MES (formerly TAG Electronic Systems) is the electronics and software arm of the McLaren Group... [03 Mar 2008]
Rotherham NHS ups network access security
Case Study The trust has now implemented Quest's ActiveRoles Server, which integrates its Microsoft Active Directory network management system with the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) database, a mandatory data store that all NHS organisations have to... [25 Jan 2008]
AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date
Case Study The new email system was designed by HP Services and Microsoft based on the Exchange 2003 platform. The company worked with HP to move 66,000 email accounts in around 60 countries - HP's biggest ever migration project - onto a new bespoke email... [23 Jan 2008]
Rugby club scores with automated backup
Case Study It backs up 120GB of stored data from three Windows 2003 servers, including an Active Directory server, a Microsoft Exchange SQL server and a general file server. A world class UK rugby club has turned to an automatic back-up system after data... [21 Jan 2008]
Brunel University uses spam filter to fight cyber bullying
Case Study M is for Microsoft Brunel University has adapted its spam filter to help fight email bullying. Based in the west of London, the university is one of the main higher education centres in the city and uses a distributed email system. [11 Jan 2008]
American Golf drives expansion with store system
Case Study Gould chose an updated version of the Navision system - now renamed Microsoft Dynamics, supplied by K3 (formerly known as Alpha Landsteinar) - because he had seen it demonstrated in other retail environments with business models similar to... [14 Sep 2007]
Retailer takes stock with business intelligence
Case Study The retailer has already been using Microsoft Dynamics-based software from systems integrator K3 for around two and a half years, and is now upgrading to a version of the software which includes business intelligence applications so users can... [10 Sep 2007]
Carpetright rips and replaces to keep up with growth
Case Study He chose SAP for the core, with Microsoft Dynamics supplied by K3 for the store-side solution. Carpetright is rolling out a rip-and-replace solution to streamline its IT systems following an intense period of growth. [25 Jun 2007]
Tesco.com takes stock with Windows Vista
Case Study Online shopping giant Tesco.com has migrated 2,000 desktops to Windows Vista with increased security and energy saving among the key reasons for the switch. The retailer migrated the PCs to Vista Ultimate edition in January, following several... [31 May 2007]
L'Oréal gets business planning makeover
Case Study Before switching to Cognos Planning, L'Oréal relied on Microsoft Excel to forecast what products its customers would be buying off them in the future but these spreadsheets had become difficult to manage and highly admin intensive. [19 Feb 2007]
New Star beefs up disaster recovery
Case Study The company is replicating Microsoft Exchange data between its Knightsbridge office and its disaster recovery site in Docklands, using software from SteelEye Technology. Fund manager New Star Asset Management has beefed up its disaster recovery... [15 Dec 2006]
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