United Al Saqer Group

Customer Profile
United Al Saqer Group is a conglomerate with companies in many industries. One of these companies is Abu Dhabi Motors, the exclusive importer for BMW, Mini Cooper, and Rolls-Royce in the United Arab Emirates.

Business Situation
Al Saqer Group had used a Lotus Notes and Domino messaging environment for many years. However, the costs of annual licenses and maintenance for this environment, as well as poor support from third-party vendors, were becoming an increasing concern. Additionally, it was becoming difficult to integrate new applications because Lotus Notes was not supported by many of the application vendors.

Solution
Al Saqer Group decided to migrate to a Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint environment. The first migration project would transition the messaging system from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook for nearly 600 users in 16 sites.

Benefits

• Migrated 600 email accounts without impacting the users
• Simpler user access with a single sign-on for email and applications
• Web browser access to email facilitates increased employee communication and productivity
• Gained a foundation for integrating applications and supporting user collaboration

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