HSH Coldstores-CaseStudy (October 2011)

HSH Coldstores operates in a fast-moving business sector. Customers expect HSH Coldstores to be highly responsive to their request. As a result, the company had for many years been using an IMAP email solution comprised of mobile devices couple with MDaemon which enabled the company's managers to move freely about the vast warehouse facility, and at any moment of the day they could be reached by telephone or email, without being tied to their desk. Today HSH Coldstores uses MDaemon Messaging Server, BlackBerry Edition, coupled with BlackBerry smartphones. "It's exactly what we were looking for: reliable push technology for email and calendar at the right price, " says Colin Cox, IT Administrator for HSH Coldstores.

WarePortal (October 2011)

WarePortal has benefitted from the deployment of BlackBerry smartphones integrated with the MDaemon Messaging Server. For example, the previous solution used by WarePortal provided separate solutions for email, content filtering, spam filtering, groupware and archiving. The MDaemon Messaging Server, on the other hand, provides all of these services in one cost-effective and easily deployable solution. This decreases the likelyhood of unanswered problems and helps to eliminate duplicated work.

Volmar Technologies (September 2007)

As a computer consulting enterprise, Volmar Technologies provides professional business and technology solutions for small-to-medium businesses. They help companies with their computers, networks and network communications, including both hosted and in-house email. After trying multiple methods, tools and products to protect their users' mailboxes from spam and virii, Volmar chose SecurityPlus.

Equipment Locator Service (June 2007)

For ELS, the biggest challenges to setting up hosted email involved finding secure, economical, low-maintenance, easy-to-use and stable software. After coming up short with three other products, ELS found what they needed in the MDaemon email server and its security plug-in, SecurityPlus for MDaemon.

Draper Tools (June 2007)

As one of the world's leading tool distributors, Draper Tools exports hardware to 62 nations worldwide. Because of its global business, Draper needed a robust and flexible email server suited to their primary requirement of safe communications with staff, suppliers and customers wherever they are located.

St George's School For Girls (May 2007)

St George's School for Girls was established in the late 1800's to provide exceptional learning opportunities for students, using excellent teaching and individual support. Introducing MDaemon and the Web-based mail client allowed access to e-mail from anywhere in school or at home, in a number of different languages, on any platform, was ideal for the school as it phased out the Acorns and Apples in order to introduce PCs.

MLS Data Management Solutions (March 2006)

Read how MDaemon 7.2 surprises even the "play it safe" and conservative approaches in spam blocking and filtering, like MLS Data Management Solutions, where they saw a "huge and instant drop in spam".

CD Discount (September 2005)

Bedford School in Computer Shopper (October 2004)

Steve Baxter, a freelance journalist visits Bedford School for UK magazine, Computer Shopper to see for himself how MDaemon is being put to use by IT staff to try and stop the flood of junk email sent to teachers and pupils.

Victoria Independent School District (July 2004)

The Victoria Independent School District (VISD) serves Victoria, Texas and some smaller adjacent communities. The VISD is the largest single employer with more than 2,400 staff members. The district educates more than 14,700 students.

The VISD needed Windows email servers capable of handling several thousand users, both staff and students. Ease-of-use, economy and performance were the primary selection criteria.

The VISD found what they needed in MDaemon and AntiVirus for MDaemon, "We originally chose MDaemon because it was simple and cost effective" said Randy Williams, who heads Management Information Services for the VISD.

Trent Barton Buses (July 2004)

trent barton is one of a very small number of significant independent bus operators in the UK. The company employs nearly 1000 people across its 11 sites in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire, running a fleet of around 330 modern buses and carrying 35 million passengers each year. The sites include a mix of bus stations, engineering, support sites, and operations centres to control the running of the buses.

Andy Spencer, Systems Support Technician at trent barton says: "I considered Microsoft Exchange, however it was far too expensive and complicated for what we wanted. A friend of mine had installed MDaemon into a local school, so I went to see it in operation and was impressed by its scalability and easy to use functionality. We therefore opted to go with MDaemon and haven't looked back since."

Tenovis (July 2004)

Tenovis is a provider of information and telecommunications solutions acting throughout Europe with presently 6,000 employees and service centres in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the Benelux countries. The company, based in Frankfurt, offers efficient solutions for business communications. The individual and customer focussed consulting services are the basis of the company's successful development.

MDaemon's capabilities were a decisive factor in the process of choosing an integrated email solution. In the course of the decision-making process, products from a variety of suppliers were subjected to numerous tests, and MDaemon easily beat them all. Stefan Manke, Product Manager Unified Messaging at TENOVIS GmbH & Co. KG says, "For us, MDaemon has proven to be the ideal solution and to be the best of all alternatives, allowing for us to swiftly decide on adopting it."

eulink (http://www.eulink.de) is the exclusive distributer for Alt-N's products in Germany.

Nefkens (July 2004)

The Nefkens Group has been active in the mobility sector since 1878 and is one of the leading automotive concerns in the Netherlands. Nefkens also operates a fleet of lease vehicles and is the official dealer for Peugeot and Opel. The extensive dealer network in the Netherlands takes care of new and used car sales, maintenance and repair, as well as selling original spare parts. The head office - and digital heart - of the Nefkens Group is in Utrecht.

Problem-free e-mail traffic provides many benefits for the Nefkens Group automotive concern. Competition is intense in the automotive industry, so the ability to act quickly and efficiently is crucial. E-mail communication is fast and efficient, but there is more to is than meets the eye. Companies using e-mail also need to maintain an optimum e-mail environment to guard against risks such as viruses, system overload and improper use. The Nefkens Group is connected to a large WAN that runs all the company's business-critical applications. Downtime is very expensive, so Nefkens decided to switch to a web-based environment and an easy-to-manage e-mail server. The choice: MDaemon Professional.

Portland (http://www.portland.nl) is the exclusive distributor for Alt-N's products in the Netherlands.

Move With Us (July 2004)

The movewithus Property Relocation Network was formed in 1997. Based in St Ives Cambridgeshire, the network has an increasing membership of partner estate agents and industry professionals throughout the UK and overseas currently with in excess of 600 members.

When the company began with one PC and a single email account, few people in the property industry had email and most communication was paper-based. The major internal change occurred in 1999 when the company automated the agent referral system and all staff had full access to the database and email. Previously, the referral system was all fax-based, with sales leads being posted to the relevant estate agents now all communication is electronic using MDaemon and RelayFax as a basis, Simon King, National Network Manager at Move with Us says, "MDaemon has become critical to our business as both estate agents and the public move to electronic communication".

Bedford School (July 2004)

Founded in 1552, Bedford School is an independent boarding and day school for boys aged 7 to 18 years, where fundamental traditions combine with innovative educational thinking to provide a challenging environment.

Choosing an email server to effectively manage electronic communications is an important decision for any school. Bedford used Netscape Messenger until about five years ago when they had to upgrade to a new version, to avoid it acting as an open relay, and then costs escalated. Bob Eadie, Network Manager at Bedford said "...the main reasons we went with MDaemon were low cost of ownership and the ease with which we could set it up. It is also both powerful and flexible."

Royal Yachting Association (March 2004)

The Royal Yachting Association is the National Association for all forms of sailing and windsurfing, motor cruising, sportsboats, personal watercraft and powerboat racing. It is recognised by all Government offices as being the negotiating body for the water activities it represents.

The RYA has gone through a rapid period of growth over the last five years and the need for its IT infrastructure to keep pace with, and help facilitate, this growth is critical. Now being its primary mode of communication, the company depends heavily on email handling around 5,500 every day across its 100,000 personal members, 1,500 affiliated clubs and 3,500 training centres.

"MDaemon has become a critical tool for our business," says Andy Galvin, Senior Network Technician at the RYA. He continues "Everything the company now does is email driven such as email forums and discussion groups. We are making it as easy as possible for people to communicate interactively."
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