Banca Intesa Standardizes Messaging Infrastructure, Enhances Services
Great new case study of a large migration to the Microsoft platform . Banca Intesa employs more than 57.000 people and operates 3.700 branches. Prior to the migration, Banca Intesa had some 28.000 users on webmail, 10.000 users on Lotus Notes and 500 users on IMAP Cyrus/Linux …
Banca Intesa launched in Italy following the merger of three major credit companies. It standardised its messaging infrastructure by deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. The decision was based on the Microsoft solution’s ease of administration, integration with existing systems, low total cost of ownership, and enterprise-class support. Using the new e-mail infrastructure has greatly enhanced messaging services for mobile working, and the integration with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 reduces IT management and supports centralised provisioning of user accounts. Banca Intesa migrated 33,000 mailboxes in less than two months, rationalising the management of the service, increasing its reliability, enabling new user functionalities, and opening a path for new collaboration services.
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I’m going to take a wild wild guess here and assume that since there were 10k lotus notes users, that they STILL have their domino infrastructure, serving up all those Lotus Domino applications that you cant migrate ?
So they’re running dual messaging infrastructures. One with very limited scalability, performance and stability. And Lotus Notes..
So why is this good for them ?
A point of interest. Atos/Origin and IBM migrated 110,000 mailboxes at a Dutch company, in 11 months. To Lotus Notes. From 30+ separate mail systems including Exchange, cc:Mail, other notes, various mainframe systems. Mind you – that was SIX years ago, so I’m guessing they could do it a little faster now..
A very large pharama has migrated at least 60k users from Exchange to Notes in the last five years…
33,000 in a few months ? To Exchange ? Of course, thats easy, because its only mail, calendars, personal contacts. And given the mailbox size limitations you have to put in place in Exchange – I’m guessing most mail went straight to PST files.
Come on. We’re all waiting for a good RedBull success – where the RedBull tools are used to correctly identify Notes applications, and then migrate them to a Microsoft infrastructure…
—* Bill
Bill, as you say, its your wild guess.
To be honoust I don’t know about the applications side on Domino and whether they actually used Domino as an application platform.