Customers

Diverse users, tight budgets.

If you work for an education institution, your organization serves diverse user communities, likely spread across multiple campuses. Students probably make up the overwhelming majority of your users, yet your student population is constantly changing. Any email client you give to students has to be completely intuitive with no training or support required. Your employees need enterprise-class email and calendaring with rich groupware functionality. On top of all this, your budget is extremely tight. You need a messaging solution that meets the needs of diverse and transient users while reducing your administrative overhead.

 
 

Former Mail System:

Mixed environment including Exchange

Strategic Goals:

  • Single unified email solution
  • Groupware functionality
  • Reduce administrative complexity and overhead
  • Consolidate servers
  • Reduce bandwidth required to support student email

Requirements

  • Full-feature Outlook support for staff
  • Feature-rich Web client for students

 

Central University of Technology

 
BLOEMFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA

 

A university that teaches science, engineering and technology, Central University of Technology has more than 11,000 students, faculty and staff across two campuses.

Results with Scalix:

  • Single Linux-based email and calendaring solution with rich groupware functionality
  • Consolidated 5 servers down to 3
  • Outlook users completely satisfied
  • Students gained desktop-like functionality with new web client
  • Reduced administrative complexity and overhead
  • Gained feature-rich Web client for students
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Former Mail System:

Pegasus Mail

Strategic Goals:

  • Better email access for students
  • Provide Outlook to staff Improved groupware functionality
  • Reduce administrative complexity and overhead

Requirements

  • Linux-based
  • Full-featured Outlook support
  • Feature-rich Web client
  • Limited end user disruption
  • Group calendaring
  • Public folders

 

Catawba College

 
SALISBURY, NC

 

One of the oldest four-year colleges in the United States, Catawba College has 1,300 students, faculty and staff.

Results with Scalix:

  • Reduced administrative complexity and overhead
  • Improved groupware functionality
  • Very positive reaction from all end users
  • Outlook users completely satisfied
  • Web client users enjoy faster performance and better functionality with Scalix Web Access
  • Improved system availability
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Former Mail System

Mixed messaging environment

Strategic Goals:

  • Groupware functionality

Requirements

  • Full-feature Outlook support
  • Linux-based

 

Banks County School District

 
HOMER, GA

 

The Banks County School District aspires to foster in every student a desire for lifelong learning, a commitment to personal fitness, an appreciation of the arts, a deep-rooted understanding of right and wrong, and a desire to participate responsibly in a free and democratic society.

Results with Scalix:

  • Single, Linux-based messaging system
  • Richer groupware functionality
  • Outlook users retained all features and are completely satisfied
  • Improved system availability
 
 

Former Mail System:

POP

Strategic Goals:

  • Group calendaring
  • Feature-rich Web client for remote users

Requirements

  • Linux-based

 

Communities in Schools

 
AUSTIN, TX

 

Communities in Schools creates campus-based programs to prevent students from dropping out, using a network of volunteers, social services, businesses and community resources.

Results with Scalix:

  • Richer groupware functionality
  • Gained feature-rich Web client for remote users
  • All goals met