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Mondi Packaging: Packaging giant thinks out-of-the-box to enable the unification of its global...
Mondi Packaging: Packaging giant thinks out-of-the-box to enable the unification of its global communications
Executive summary
Mondi Packaging – one of the world’s most successful paper and packaging companies – has seen substantial business expansion over the past ten years, achieved through a combination of acquisition and organic growth worldwide. However by late 2004 the company was being challenged by integration issues, caused by the prevalence of disparate, standalone email systems and domain addresses.
The company decided to standardise on a Microsoft Exchange platform and engaged directly with Microsoft to design the operating environment for its primary data centre in Vienna. To assure business continuity and provide geographic as well as functional resilience the company selected BT to host a secondary global email facility in the UK and also provide internet connectivity.
The BT solution is based on a hosted and fully managed Windows Server 2003 environment, delivered on a dedicated platform supporting Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Active Directory at BT’s St Albans Internet Data Centre (IDC). Legacy systems have been retired and projected annual cost saving of up to 60 per cent are forecast. The new approach has unified and simplified Mondi Packaging’s email communication, increased business resilience and security, and substantially enhanced business agility.
“BT was very flexible and showed a willingness to adapt normal procedures to tailor a solution to meet our specific needs, both operationally and commercially. Sometimes BT challenged our thinking and recommended alternative approaches, all of which served to increase confidence in the integrity of the solution deployed.”
Mike Scammells, Enterprise Enabling Infrastructure Co-ordinator, Mondi Packaging