Large Motor Dealer and Distributor Outsource their Email to SMS

Released on = January 18, 2007, 2:41 am

Press Release Author = Simply Mail Solutions

Industry = Internet & Online

Press Release Summary = T C Harrison to rationalise and expand email systems by
outsourcing to email hosting specialist Simply Mail Solutions.

Press Release Body = Warrington Thursday January 18th 2007. Simply Mail Solutions
has announced that it has agreed an outsourcing deal with leading motor industry
company Sheffield based T C Harrison. A number of different email systems were in
operation at different locations with multiple domains and servers and TCH decided
to look into outsourcing email both to improve quality of service and to reduce
costs.

Commented Neil Bailey IT Manager "Hosted email services have really developed
recently but we wanted a service that would allow us to outsource smoothly and would
allow us to choose whether to use POP3 or MS Exchange for a users email. MS Exchange
is significantly more expensive than POP3 and many of our users are not at the
moment, needing to use things such as mobile phone email or collaboration features"

T C Harrison needed a very flexible solution that allowed the type of email service
to be decided by the company independent of the company division and domain in use.
SMS is unique in allowing mailboxes with the same domain to be either POP3 or MS
Exchange based. SMS included this facility in its original email infrastructure.
Commented Neil Bailey "The other mail hosting companies that we looked at could only
offer MS Exchange mailboxes and not a mixture of POP3 and MS Exchange for the same
domain". In excess of 200 email boxes are in the process of being outsourced and
then once this is all done TC Harrison will be in a position to implement new email
services without the constraints caused by having a number of in-house servers.

Neil commented further "SMS has been easy do to deal with and has been very flexible
in meeting our needs. We certainly have a more reliable system that is costing us
less and a sound basis to increase our use of email further without difficulty"

The MD of Simply Mail Solutions Colin Smith commented "We are very pleased to be
working with T C Harrison on this project. It shows that an overall approach to
managing email systems can bring major benefits to users and has been possible
because we designed flexibility into our email hosting service from the beginning.
Certainly our unique ability to mix and match the type of email service with a given
domain is proving to be a winner."

About T C Harrison
T C Harrison has now grown into one of the country\'s largest privately owned motor
groups, with around 750 employees in 16 locations, and an annual turnover in excess
of £200 million serving over 200,000 customers. The business includes Ford car main
dealerships, commercial vehicle operations, JCB dealerships and car leasing
operations.
Website: http://www.tch.co.uk/default.asp

About Simply Mail Solutions
SMS is based in Warrington UK and already has thousands of customer email accounts
running on its servers. It is a dedicated email hosting company. More information is
available at www.simplymailsolutions.com or email colin@simplymailsolutions.com


Web Site = http://www.simplymailsolutions.com

Contact Details = colin@simplymailsolutions.com

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