Case studies: solutions for Microsoft Office and Outlook

Case studies: solutions integrated with Microsoft Office and Outlook

Duplicate contacts management solution based on Duplicate Killer :

Company: PVH Corporation is an American apparel company, one of the largest global apparel companies. PVH Corp's main headquarters are located in New York. The company has more than 12,000 employees.

Problem: Transfer from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook caused big amount of duplicates. End users needed simple and fast duplicate management without advanced settings, but with an option to review the found duplicates.

Solution: A completely simplified tool that quickly detects Outlook duplicate contacts, shows results and merges selected items automatically.

Duplicates are searched in default Outlook Contacts folder after one click of a button;
Duplicate contacts appear in groups in the "Search Report";
Selected items are merged automatically according to special merging rules (i.e. priority fields);
An option to skip selected items from Search Report for next search;
Automatic activation of the software from 4Team Activation Server for 5000 end users.

Production time: 1 month.

Timeframe (from first contact to product deployment): 2 months.

Date: 2010

Automated network backup for Microsoft Outlook based on Sync2PST :

Company: EURIWARE based in Paris, France, provides its customers with advanced Consulting and IT services in energy, industry, defense and services sectors. Company has more than 2500 employees.

Problem: Standard network backup solutions are not able to backup the Microsoft Outlook .pst file when it opens (.pst file lock).

Solution: Fully automated scheduled network backup/restore for Microsoft Outlook data deployed for more than 400 employees. Application is hidden on client desktop, event based (only changes are will be transferred) and able quickly and incrementally backup all user .pst files even Outlook is open or closed. No other backup solution on the market able to do that.

Production time: 1 month.

Timeframe (from first contact to product deployment): 3 months.

Localization: English, French, German.

Date: 2009