Republic Technologies International SAS recently acquired Swedish Match who produces and sells market-leading brands in smokefree tobacco products, cigars and lights products. The Company sells products across the globe, with production units in 10 countries. Swedish Match also distributes third parties’ tobacco products on the Swedish market.

Business need:
Republic Technologies required an integrated, robust, scalable, reliable mail messaging system that would enable the company to evolve as a fully collaborative organisation. The existing mail server solution on Microsoft Exchange did not allow for effective collaboration and was not providing value for money due to high cost of ownership.

Solution:
Republic Technologies evaluated IBM Lotus software as a much-enhanced replacement for its existing solution based on Microsoft Exchange. Applicable proposed and deployed a comprehensive solution on:

>Lotus Domino
> Lotus Notes
> Lotus Sametime  

In Lotus Domino, they found a reliable, scalable enterprise-grade e-mail, collaboration capabilities, and custom application platform that worked seamlessly with Lotus Notes to create a compelling collaborative environment. More than just a client for e-mail, messaging and scheduling; Lotus Notes enables creation of composite applications which integrate content from multiple systems in a single context.  Republic extended the collaboration element by using Lotus Sametime which provides enterprise instant messaging functionality and presence awareness. Moving to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino from Microsoft Exchange and Outlook reduced software licensing costs. Apart from the obvious financial rewards, the solution gave Republic a far more scalable, flexible and reliable solution.

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