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Not so long ago we held a round table discussion on SaaS, and invited him to the IT managers of insurance companies, banks and commercial structures. It was pretty comfortable, all this took place in Kyiv at the Opera in the evening, so it was an informal chat and a warm environment (thanks to Microsoft - all made ​​a fine).
so. According to the program were two of the report. One - our gene. Director about the use of cloud services and SaaS. It can look. here.

The second report, which wanted to talk in more detail - is the report of the IT director Valery Sokolov Generali Garant about how his company is shifting to services.
( Incidentally, this was an article in. Computer Active (N37). , So that you can read what and how. ).

In general, Valery - a man rather live in communion, and he spent his report in the format of a free narrative. Presentation of the result makes no sense, since the main value was exactly in the comments and responses to emerging issues. I'll try to briefly give the main points of interest.

a. Why did you decide to change the postal system?.
At the time of the decision the company has used e-mail program allows you to only work with mail. Western leaders came just did not understand such a scenario, because they are used to work with today's post, which would have included a calendar and contacts, and mobile access, etc. Dr.. It was therefore instructed to move to a normal system of corporate communications.

2. Why did you decide outsource?.
There are several reasons.
a) Because the crisis was on the one hand it is not clear how many people will be in the company of half a year - that is 2 times more, or less than 2-fold. T. e. It was impossible to predict the cost.
b) Guidelines adopted by the directive that IT should not turn the nut, and should solve the business problem.
c) have been counted the money, their value (t. e. how much the company would have earned if it had not spent the money to buy equipment and software, and would put them on deposit), maintenance costs, etc. Dr.. which resulted in a decent amount of.
d ) infrastructure in the company are not allowed to provide access to the system at an acceptable level - have been power outages, internet, etc. Dr..

3. Why is Exchange?.
Google and looked at the Exchange. They chose the latter for, quote, ' two and a half reasons '.
First, whereas in Ukraine was not Google's office ( now the truth is). What complicated the design of contracts, payments, etc. Dr..
Second, the company wanted to use the client software (outlook for example) and would like to achieve a zero- administration. T. e. so that users can install yourself and adjust it to the mailer. This was only possible using a bunch of outlook-Exchange ( which, incidentally, was done).
Second -half was used the following principle: to work with the service provider, which is smaller than you. In this case, we can expect that the supplier will try to satisfy a large customer to get money from it. Google in this case clearly does not fit.

4. Why SL Global Service?.
Considered Inkom and someone else. But at that moment (and at this point too), running a service with features such mastabirovaniya was only with us. We were given an opportunity to connect instantly and for free.

5. What about security?.
On this occasion, I wrote in. previous post.

6. What is the output?.
Well besides the fact that the company was expecting the worst, and got good service, there are several nice features:.
a) a decrease in dozens GPRS traffic and pay for GPRS roaming. Guide travels frequently and is now spending money in the fraction.
b) ustoychivat of service - Contrary to expectations, the IT department receives very few requests from employees and communicate with our support only if a real problem.
c) the fine-tuning spam filter - it was three days, when our guys a tie, then unscrew the filter level to achieve the ideal in terms of kilenta, your spam filter. The result is a well-.
d) removing the risks of security, maintenance, unplanned expenses, etc. Dr..

Well, in general, something like that. Again, listen to it was much more interesting. Sorry, did not record video - it was worth it.