Education Advocacy Firm Educativa adopted the Google Mail cloud-based messaging service but quickly decided that Google was not agile enough to integrate with the existing infrastructure. We recently spoke to Bogdan Kochesch, Business Manager at Educativa, to learn why: Q: Can you please tell us about Educativa? Bogdan Kochesch: Educativa develops educational products and…
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Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 12/14/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Dixons Rolls Out Office 365 to 20,000 UsersThe electrical retailer Dixons Retail to roll out Office 365 to 20,000 users across the UK, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Hong Kong. Microsoft Office 365 for Education Deployment at AICTEAll…
Email Has Come a Long Way, Baby
It’s amazing to think just how far email has come since Ray Tomlinson hit the send button on the first network email on behalf of MIT in 1971. Over the next two-and-a-half decades, it evolved to become a form of communication used by millions of users, surpassing snail mail and the fax as the business…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 12/7/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Webjet Adopts Office 365, Windows AzureWebjet, Australia’s largest online travel booking website, selects Office 365 “because it differentiates itself from the competition with its hybrid offering.” Opus Chooses Office 365 to Support Expansion PlansOpus, a New Zealand based…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/30/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Barilla Selects Microsoft Office 365Italian food company Barilla Group selects Office 365 to manage the interaction among employees in its branch offices, production plants and on the road. Telecom New Zealand to Adopt Office 365 for Internal UseTelecom…
Real World with Cloud Services: Interview with Shane Pearce, Manager of Information Services, A.P. Eagers
As part of the Real World with Cloud Services series, we spoke to Shane Pearce, Manager of Information Services at A.P. Eagers, about why the company chose to replace its existing on-premises email system with Microsoft Exchange Online through Microsoft Office 365 instead of Google Mail. Here’s what he had to say: Q: Please…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/23/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Visaka Industries Deploys Microsoft Office 365Visaka Industries switches from Google Apps to Office 365 because “Microsoft Office 365 clearly out-shines Google Apps not only in ease of use but also in terms of reliability and manageability.” Microsoft Office…
Ticketmonster, Inc. Switches from Google Apps to Microsoft Exchange Server for Security and Compliance Reasons
Retailer Ticketmonster, Inc. needed to establish a desirable IT governance system for companywide communications and decided to replace Google Apps with an on-premise email server. We recently spoke to Lee Hyung-jun, Head of the IT Unit at Ticketmonster, to learn why: Q: Please tell us about Ticketmonster, Inc. Lee Hyung-jun: We are a “daily…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/9/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Skype Launches New Online Platform for Small BusinessesSkype launches the public Skype in the workspace, a new online platform for small businesses to instantly connect with potential customers, partners and suppliers across the globe. End of an Era:…
Weekly #WhyMSFT Round-Up 11/2/2012
Each week, we round up industry news and articles you might have missed. Enjoy this week’s selections. Microsoft Just Scored A Huge Win In The CloudMicrosoft’s new $9.8 million, four-year contract with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demonstrates that Office 365 is “a hit with enterprises.” Microsoft Launches Office On Windows Phone 8The new Office…