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Lons town council chooses MDaemon Messaging Server
CuStoMer : LoNS towN CouNCiL - reSeLLer : ParitéS - SoLutioN
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With a population of 12 000 inhabitants, Lons is among the first
ten towns in the French Department of Pyrénées Atlantiques. It
spreads over a particularly large area (90 km of public roads), and
has a mixed habitat of estates and protected green areas. Lons
inhabitants benefit from numerous infrastructures: sports centre,
swimming pool, multimedia library, 3 school complexes with over 900
pupils, two community centres, a music school, a school of theatre,
a day-care centre…
www.mairie-lons.fr
ChaLLeNge
Lons town council has undertaken an environmental project and
feels strongly about encouraging and spreading the use of emails.
Besides allowing the council to decrease its paper costs, emails
also provide Lons inhabitants with a fast and direct link to the
local authorities. Furthermore, an efficient messaging server is
essential to the running of the local authorities who require
different email boxes for different business applications such
as:
• Electronic document management (dematerialization of invoices,
sending by email to the appropriate departments).• Holiday
charts.
There is also the need for an efficient running of mobility: 10%
of the staff in Lons town council presently work full-time with an
iPhone.
We lacked such a tool as MDaemon Messaging Server for the
management of emails and shared calendars. ”Patrice Manaut, Head of
IT and Telecom at Lons town council‟
Case study
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SoLutioN
After testing several solutions which turned out to be either
too costly and complex to administer, or just not complete, our
customer chose MDaemon Messaging Server (Pro) for:
• its ease of administration and its global cost,• its ease of
use with its webmail interface (WorldClient) which allows users to
access their emails wherever they are,• its mobile device
management (MDM) features.
The users also appreciated the top performance of MDaemon, its
good finish, and the compatibility of its webmail interface with
either Windows, Mac or Linux.
arChiteCture
MDaemon is hosted on a dedicated server located in the council’s
computer room. Remote sites (7 in total) are interlinked through
high speed optical fibre with Lons town council and benefit from a
permanent access to MDaemon. Presently, 86 MDaemon accounts are
configured; among which 6 are iPhone users connected via ActiveSync
for MDaemon.
eaSy to iNStaLL/CoNfigure/aDMiNiSter
This solution is so simple to use that since it was installed,
the town’s IT section stepped in and took over the management and
administration of the server.
aSSeSSMeNt
• end userPATRICE MAnAuT - HEAD oF IT AnD TELECoM AT LonS ToWn
CounCIL“ In addition to its affordable price, it is an excellent
alternative to such tools as Exchange. One can easily manage this
product, create an account or shared calendars, control and monitor
spams, etc…
It only takes a few minutes to install on PCs. We will never
look back!!You can rate the success of a product by the way users
adopt it or reject it, and on how easy it is to use. If we take a
look at the number of users who asked an access to shared calendars
and contact list categories, we can say it is a total success. We
are completely satisfied with this application. “
• resellerRICHARD DARRIEuToRT - PARITES MAnAgER - nETWoRk AnD
TELECoM ADMInISTRAToR“It made it possible for us to delete mail
clients from each workstation thus enabling us to have a 100%
“fullweb” use of the product. As one of their partner resellers, we
appreciated the responsiveness and efficiency of Watsoft’s
technical support during the testing period.We have come to the end
of a 2-year search for a groupware solution and ask ourselves why
we did not think of it before… This project has been very
rewarding. Thanks to demos, we were able to help our customer
during the decision process. “
The users quickly adopted the different add-ons of MDaemon.‟
”Patrice Manaut,Head of IT and Telecom at Lons town council
‟Richard Darrieutort,Parités Manager, network and Telecom
administrator ”
For us the experience is a total success and our customer is
making full use of
the product.
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about ParitéS
PARITES was created in 1993 and it is located in Pau. It deals
with IT services and distribution. Ever since its creation, the
company has kept growing and it has diversified its activities in
the different IT sectors. It has nonetheless kept its service and
advice activities with professionals. nowadays PARITES has spread
to the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées, as well as towards
the Landes and the Basque regions of France.
PARITES has a technical and professional experience in many
fields such as PC environments, network and telecom security. They
can also offer numerous hardware and brands for which they supply
maintenance.
They have a dynamic and competent team in the Apple, Microsoft
and Linux environments and they give support to companies in the
management and monitoring of their computers.
www.parites.fr
about watSoft
Created in october 2001, Watsoft is a value added distributor
which provides communication and security solutions matching the
needs of small and medium businesses.
These solutions are sold exclusively by electronic delivery and
provide a good compromise between open source software and major
brands.
These products are distributed via a network of 2300 resellers
in French-speaking countries who benefit from Watsoft’s technical
and sales support.
www.watsoft.com
about aLt-N
Alt-n Technologies develops affordable and secure messaging and
collaboration solutions designed for, and trusted by,
small-to-medium businesses in over 90 countries and 25 languages
worldwide.
The company’s flagship solutions, the MDaemon® Messaging Server
and the Securitygateway for Exchange/SMTP Servers, include the
latest email security technologies, and require minimal support and
administration to operate and maintain. The company uses a network
of global distributors and resellers for the sales and support of
its products.
www.altn.com
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