Case studies - successful companies use a Window server
The following are case studies of various Microsoft customers, these highlight the benefits of a Window server in terms of performance, reliability, total cost of ownership, security and indemnification.
Performance
Checkfree - CheckFree is known for its high-quality electronic commerce infrastructures used by financial institutions. The company seeks to deliver innovation and quality while lowering TCO for customers.
Cole Taylor Bank - Cole Taylor Bank realised an unexpected benefit of upgrading to a Window server 2003 — the ability to centralise and consolidate the functions of its branch servers into its data center, which provided tremendous savings in server acquisition and management costs.
Reliability
London Stock Exchange - As part of its strategy to win more trading business and new customers, the London Stock Exchange needed a scalable, reliable, high-performance stock exchange ticker plant to replace its earlier system.
Barnes and Noble, Inc. - Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest bookseller, operates 821 stores in 50 states. To help improve its business operations and respond better to customer needs, the company needed new business intelligence tools that could access information faster and provide more detailed reports to managers.
Total cost of ownership
C.R.I.S. Camera Services - C.R.I.S. Camera Services, a leading U.S. photographic and digital imaging equipment service company, had a Linux-based IT infrastructure that was hard to manage and could no longer satisfactorily support the 35-person company’s growing business.
Qube Cinema - After initially considering Linux for its next-generation digital server, the developers at Qube Cinema, Inc., selected Microsoft XP Embedded for its security and reliability.
Security
MB Financial Bank - MB Financial Bank is a rapidly growing provider of commercial financial services. Its growth, arising largely from acquisitions, contributed to a heterogeneous IT platform based on Novell NetWare for core functions and various banking applications on the desktop.
American University of Beirut (AUB) - Microsoft helps AUB to provide controlled user access to diverse applications in an auditable, easily manageable way, while giving the IT staff a simple way to centrally set permissions and reduce risk of unauthorised file access on user desktops.
Indemnification
Brown University - Investigate the technological and business aspects of Linux and Windows server to determine which server operating system would offer the university's Department of Psychiatry optimal total cost of ownership and return on investment with minimal risk of intellectual property lawsuits.
ADC - After an analysis of licensing, training, and support costs, ADC Telecommunications chose to upgrade its client operating systems with Microsoft Window server instead of Linux. Along with a 67 percent lower total cost of ownership, indemnification protection was a key factor in the decision.
