Messaging Architects: Client Success Stories

Our Clients

Messaging Architects helps organizations leverage the investment in their messaging and collaboration system through enterprise-class solutions that address the needs for policy, security, and mobility and solve critical messaging needs by delivering robust, feature-rich, and easy-to-use products that ensure a stable, secure, and mobile messaging environment. Over 5,000 accounts and millions of individual GroupWise end users work with our products on a daily basis: our clients range from Fortune 1000 companies to local and federal governments, educational institutions and healthcare establishments. Read how our solutions have contributed to our clients' and partners' success.If you have a story to share, we'd love to hear from you.

	TRUSTED BY NOVELL
"We appreciate the great work of partners like Messaging Architects who offer policy driven solutions for enterprise email that complement and extend the capabilities of GroupWise" - Kent Erickson, General Manager, Novell Workgroup Solutions.
"GWGuardian is the cornerstone of Novell's defense against spam and e-mail based viruses - it does an excellent job in its mission critical task of protecting over 6000 GroupWise mailboxes here at Novell" - Steve Whitehouse, Systems Architect, GroupWise Messaging & Collaboration Services, Novell Inc.

GOVERNMENT
	Founded in 2002, the French lnstitut National de Prévention et d'Education pour la Santé (INPES) is a public establishment responsible for patient rights and ensuring the quality of the healthcare system. INPES relies on Novell GroupWise for effective and reliable collaboration and depends on Messaging Architects' GWGuardian for peace of mind and risk-free interaction with the public. Learn about the email security challenges INPES was facing and the benefits to their GroupWise system since the deployment of GWGuardian. [case study]
	Similar to most other municipal organizations relying on email as a primary means of communication, the City of Den Helder in the northern part of The Netherlands needed a robust and reliable anti-spam and anti-virus solution for their email system that would seamlessly integrate in their GroupWise environment. They chose Messaging Architects' GWGuardian and are planning to introduce GWArchive in the summer. [case study]
	TxDOT was looking for an enterprise-class email archiving solution for GroupWise to meet the challenges of retaining and searching existing and future electronic messages in accordance with potential legislation and access to information directives...GWArchive from Messaging Architects was the solution that was able to meet their technical and budgetary requirements. [case study]
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HEALTHCARE
	In 2006 Geisinger Health began the design and implementation of a comprehensive system for electronic records retention, including email,that addressed the needs for electronic legal discovery and content management and met the privacy and security requirements of HIPAA. Read why Geisinger selected GWArchive to deal with the challenges of GroupWise archiving. [case study]
	"GWArchive is an excellent application that is able to fulfill our needs to contain the exponential growth in storage and also offers the modules to enforce our email policy once it is put in place. GWArchive is a very useful application in today’s day and age when nobody ever deletes email. So far, GWArchive has really helped us better manage the storage problems we have been experiencing." [read testimonial] - Parul Patel, Senior Network Analyst, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
	"GWGuardian is a necessity for any organization because it works. During our testing period of GWGuardian, we have had so many positive responses from our staff regarding spam and viruses. It's a powerful yet simple to maintain application that surpasses all other enterprise anti-spam systems claiming to reduce spam. GWGuardian in my opinion has no comparison. You will see results the first time GWGuardian is turned on." - Barry Lee, Information Technology Support Technician, Health Employers Association of British Columbia
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EDUCATION
	Neosho R-5 School District consists of 4 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school. For the past 7 years, they have relied on Novell GroupWise for collaboration and messaging. To protect their GroupWise system, the Network Administrator at Neosho R-5 School District uses GWGuardian. He chose the secure appliance because it was the best solution to offer his school district reliable and superior protection without having to spend any time configuring spam settings or managing virus updates, as the whole process is fully automated. [case study]
	Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City, MO consists of six campuses with over 150,000 studentsand relies on Novell GroupWise and NetMail for collaboration. To secure its messaging infrastructure, MCC selected Messaging Architects' Advanced Email Firewall because it was the most effective in meeting the college's needs for a scalable, flexible, cross-platform solution. [case study]
	The New Berlin School District serves the educational needs of several thousand students from the state of Wisconsin. Read on to learn how this school district makes the most of its GroupWise system, providing a secure and efficient collaboration environment for students, teachers and staff with GWGuardian and GWExtranet, while meeting regulatory requirements for quick and accurate access to archives in open records requests with GWArchive. [case study]
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FINANCIAL/INSURANCE
	EWI is a reinsurance company which helps individuals and other insurance organizations address risk assessment and management strategies. EWI relies on Novell GroupWise for collaboration and leverages GroupWise Shared Folders to securely manage all corporate projects. To distribute its complex trees of Shared Folders across the company, the organization uses GWTreecast , which provides centralized administration and easy management, saving time and dramatically enhancing productivity at EWI. [case study]
	"As an organization running GroupWise, we value your partnership with Novell and appreciate your strong presence and visibility at Novell-related events and GroupWise communities. We feel comfortable with your product and we are ready to explore the implementation of other Messaging Architects solutions... GWFax exactly meets our needs. Productivity and efficiency have dramatically increased."[read testimonial] - Sean Azhadi, Vice-President of Technology, San Diego County Credit Union
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CORPORATE
	The Formel D group is an internationally working premium service provider for the automobile and supplier industries. Learn how the company was able to eliminate spam and other security threats from their messaging system and dramatically reduce IT overhead by deploying GWGuardian, making their end users very happy in the process. [case study]
	Germany-based INFORM specializes in providing turn-key IT solutions for optimized planning and control of business processes. The company relies on Novell GroupWise for collaboration. They use GWTreecast to centrally manage their knowledgebase repository and their support department, which make use of the GroupWise Shared Folders functionality, ensuring efficiency and high productivity at all their departments. [case study]
	When Lithia Motors selected GWGuardian as their anti-spam and anti-virus solution, they really needed a change from the time-consuming and inaccurate software they were previously using to protect their five-server Exchange collaboration system servicing over 4500 employees across 105 locations throughout the Western and Midwestern United States. Read the case study describing the end-user benefits and the dramatic reduction in IT overhead the solution GWGuardian brought to Lithia Motors. [case study]
	With a portfolio of over 3000 products and branches in the US and an office in Hong Kong, Santa's Best is the largest US supplier of Christmas decorations and accessories. They leverage the GroupWise Shared Folders capability to ensure employees' secure access to thousands of customer accounts and millions of messages in the corporate system’s message store. They use GWTreecast, an eDirectory-enabled application for GroupWise Shared Folders management without end-user intervention, which saves the IT department and product designers an enormous amount of time and effort. [case study]
	GWArchive solves the archiving needs of Vedior Holding NV, one of the world's largest recruitment companies and best addresses the organization's regulatory and internal email retention policy requirements amongst numerous archiving solutions. [case study]
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LEGAL
	Zorgverzekeraars Nederland is a general trade union federation of companies that offer health insurances in The Netherlands. When their IT department began addressing the various aspects of managing the risks of their email infrastructure, the organization selected the Messaging Architects' product portfolio to tackle aspects of secure mobility with GWAnywhere, scalable email retention with GWArchive, and are currently exploring how best to protect their GroupWise system from spam and viruses with GWGuardian. [case study]
	The National Federation of Christian Trade Unions in the Netherlands has over 360,000 members. Currently, they have a heterogeneous collaboration environment based on a variety of email systems: GroupWise, Sendmail, Exchange 2003, with a global migration to GroupWise 7 planned for later. They needed a flexible solution that could integrate with eDirectory, as well as support several environments with minimal administrative intervention and management. GWGuardian from Messaging Architects was chosen because of the eDirectory integration and the fact that it is a total security solution for spam and virus control. [case study]
	Being a strong advocate and long time supporter of Novell products, we were already familiar with the reputation of the Messaging Architects' product line. We felt that GWArchive would meet or exceed our criteria for a robust archival storage solution and the security offered by GWGuardian was legendary, given that it is being used by Novell themselves: an endorsement that speaks volumes." [read testimonial] - Darin Schacker, Information Technology Manager, Bryan & Company LLP
	"The end users are very happy that the spam problem was effectively resolved. The IT-department isn’t bothered by employees who complain about their spam-problem any more and my team has more time to dedicate themselves to other projects in our environment." - Bram Blijleven, Systems Engineer at SRK Rechtsbijstand - SRK Rechtsbijstand is so satisfied with the benefits it is getting from GWGuardian, the company has also ordered GWArchive, the email retention solution from Messaging Architects that SRK had originally set out to inquire into at the GroupWise Discovery Workshop in the spring of 2004 and is showing serious interest in GWAnywhere. [read testimonial]
	"My father's law firm, The Law Center for Social Security Rights, needed a robust and reliable anti-spam and anti-virus solution that would work with their GroupWise system. The firm had been using Trend Micro's Interscan VirusWall and eManager products, but was looking for something with more advanced SPAM detection and better integration with GroupWise. After reviewing a few anti-virus and anti-spam products from various companies, I chose GWGuardian to protect the firm's messaging infrastructure. Installing GWGuardian has made everybody very happy. They have had virtually no problems with spam or viruses. It's really a perfect fire-and-forget solution that stops unwanted mail at the gateway and frees your email server to do what it's supposed to." - Matt Weisberg, Senior Architect, Novell, Inc.
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Messaging Architects Partners & Resellers
	The French lnstitut National de Prévention et d'Education pour la Santé (INPES) is a public establishment responsible for patient rights and ensuring the quality of the healthcare system. Learn about the email security challenges INPES was facing and how the GWGuardian solution offered by Altea the leading French reseller of Novell products, brought dramatic improvements to the organization. [case study]
	For over a year and a half, Saint Paul’s School has been using GWGuardian to protect its GroupWise system. The implementation was recommended and put in place by Big Sur Technologies, Saint Paul’s trusted advisor for all IT-related issues. GWGuardian’s superior technology coupled with the exceptional expertise and excellent customer service offered by Big Sur Technologies has translated into a winning combination for Saint Paul’s School. [case study]
	"Our client contacted us requesting a solid anti-spam and anti-virus solution. We had already deployed GWGuardian into the messaging infrastructure of several other clients, who are getting excellent benefits from the product. We immediately suggested GWGuardian to Formel D and launched a pilot to evaluate the product." Sybille Ott, Sales executive at SystAG, on the GWGuardian deployment at Formel D. [case study]
	RZZ Rechenzentrum AG is a Swiss IT Service Provider focussed on providing a complete IT infrastructure for organizations running a variety of operating systems. IT consultant Patrick Hausermann explains how his company solved Reishauer AG's email security needs by implementing GWGuardian, dramatically reducing the IT overhead for his client: "What gave GWGuardian a real edge was the ease of installation." [case study]
	"We had implemented GWGuardian from the Messaging Architects at a few other clients' sites and have always received great satisfaction... What was very important for the client was the fact that end users didn’t have to call the IT department to release emails they wanted to receive, which had been quarantined as spam." [read testimonial] - Wim Timmer, TMD Informatisering
	"In the summer of 2004 we implemented a solution for mobility that would help us to be more efficient and productive as a company. We took the advice from our house supplier of ICT solutions, AACCosmos, and started testing GWAnywhere. It seemed to be the only product which was completely satisfactory and addressed all our needs." [read testimonial] - Olav Bodelier, GGZ Region Breda
	"After Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia chose GWGuardian , we implemented the spam filter and virus scanning for both incoming viruses AND attachments and 2 GWGuardian gateways for fault tolerance. The size of installation was considerable, over 10,000 users! Therefore we installed 2 GWGuardian servers to ensure that all faculties, teachers, students and other employees were protected from internet-borne threats all the time." [read testimonial] - Tomi Moberg, Novell specialist & Messaging Architects partner for Finland
	"IT Quality is a total supplier of consulting services, hardware and software. We also supply all the software you need for a complete GroupWise installation. We only pick the best suppliers to make sure that our customers always get the best solutions. Therefore we test the products to ensure that they live up to high level of quality that IT Quality demands. Our partnership with Messaging Architects works fantastically for us, and our clients are happy with the products." [read testimonial] - Andre Wellin, IT Quality
	"The installation of both products was done in only two days. With GWAnywhere, we covered all devices and carriers. Depending on the users’ needs, we implemented the Push and Pull functions to synch emails and calendar data directly to the mobile device. GWArchive makes it possible for the client to access information stored in GroupWise frequently, without taking the risk of losing data or corrupting its integrity." [read testimonial] - Karl Pusch, EDSA Systems GmbH
	Pflugerville ISD decided to rely on the deployment of GWGuardian and the customization of the GWExtranet templates. PISD contracted with Tenacious Integration Services, Inc., a consulting firm founded in 2001 by former Novell consultants specializing in Novell-based solutions that allow organizations to maximize their technology investments while minimizing implementation times and risk. Gregg Hinchman from Tenacious implemented the GWGuardian solution at Pflugerville ISD. [read testimonial]
	"We started testing GWGuardian. During the trial period we found out that the solution not only provided exactly what we wanted and needed, but also functioned very well. We looked at a few other products, but overall, when we compared price and functionality, we assessed that GWGuardian Academic Edition was best for our client." [read testimonial] - Patrick Frontéri, Frontéri Network Consluting
	"Your GWGuardian service has greatly reduced our time lost to analysis and review of unsolicited, fraudulent, scandalous and infected e-mail..." [read testimonial]