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KEUCO GmbH & Co. KG
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KEUCO - the company
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KEUCO has been growing as a company in personal responsibility for 50 years and confronts the technological and ecological challenges of our time. Today, the company employs almost 400 people at the production sites Hemer and Gütersloh.
In fact KEUCO is a full-range supplier of bathroom accessoires, furniture and fittings and unites traditional metal-working with woodworking techniques. High-tech perfection in our company´s production technology and its unequivocal commitment to manufacturing products of the very highest quality helped KEUCO win world-wide renown.
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Success-Story
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KEUCO searched for an alternative to the existing Lotus Notes e-mail and database-server beginning at the end of 2002.
The new system should be cost efficient and easier to administrate. Introduction of an own created KEUCO intranet which took the existing Lotus Notes databases off to 100% was of advantage.
To be compatible to the existing ERP system, the new e-mail system should work with a Outlook client. So use of the MS Exchange server seems obvious.
After a corresponding analysis this proved, however, very cost-intensive. On the search for a suitable system various products were analyzed (exchange4linux, SuSE OpenExchange server, SCO mail server, Samsung Contact).
They couldn't fulfill the requirements with regard to the number of clients to handle, the costs, the stability or future prove of investment.
Due to the KOLAB initiative of the BSI's Federal Ministry of security in the information technology KEUCO became aware of the Bynari Outlook client. This proved fast, the fitting e-mail server is also available to the client.
Long-term tests and a very good cooperation with Mr. Fritzsche (dbtec) lead - according to thoroughly existing problems with the first connector versions - in the third quarter 2004 for the switching off of the last Lotus Notes server.
The complete e-mail traffic (approx. 220 users) is dealt with 2 Bynari e-mail servers at two locations since then.
External users use the system about VPN and Bynari connector, just like about the web client straightforward. |
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