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| Executive Summary |
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Low Cost. Adaptable. High Performance. Open. While its low cost enables you to undertake a faster, wider deployment, Mithi Connect Xf’s greatest benefit comes from its flexibility to adapt to your specific email, messaging and collaboration needs without compromising on performance. Backed by a complete life cycle support and an open architecture, the software can help you control your costs, improve productivity and become more responsive.
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CEO's PERSPECTIVE: Managing Customer Experience, Relationships, Profitability, etc
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1. Email & Collaboration Infrastructure is one of the most critical part of the enterprise IT infrastructure both in reducing the costs and improving the responsiveness of the enterprise. But Email and Collaboration Infrastructure could itself involve high set-up and running costs. Connect Xf offers an opportunity to Save Costs but Without Compromising on Performance.
2. Lower Set-up and Running cost for Connect Xf enables enterprises to undertake a Wider Deployment of the email and collaboration software and therefore Multiplying the Benefits that can be derived from it.
3. The High Dependability of Connect Xf, leads to Lower Downtime which in turn leads to Lower Disruption costs.
4. With its flexible and Open Standards based architecture, Connect Xf can be Easily Adapted and Scaled to meet the changing needs of an enterprise.
5. Mail Archival feature in Connect Xf, maintains a record of all conversations and exchanges of information. Useful in Ensuring Security and Compliance, it doubles up as a knowledge repository, where data can be conveniently mined and leveraged for gaining new insights and value.
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| CFO's PERSPECTIVE: Managing Costs, Risks and Resource Deployment |
1. Connect Xf helps you make upfront savings in licensing, resource and deployment costs, enabling a more productive use of the IT Budget. In an equivalent budget for a proprietary email solutions, you can build a higher performance email infrastructure with Connect Xf.
2. Availability features (such as remote back up, hot standby, automatic fail over) and an in-built Security Framework (with features such as Anti spam, Anti virus, Firewall, Mail policies, Encryption etc.) ensure a Near-zero loss of productivity from down times and disruptions.
3. Use of widely available and reliable Open Source components in Connect Xf ensures there is No Costly System Overhauls. Unlike Connect Xf, proprietary system usually requires costly overhaul of the entire set-up to deliver on new functionality and/or performance promise.
4. Connect Xf can coexist with other Open Source and Proprietary Email Software so there is No Need of Complete Overhaul of the Exiting System. Our customers have saved 40-60% costs using Connect Xf in combination with other proprietary solutions like MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, etc to rationalize software licensing cost.
5. Besides Connect Xf’s ability to coexist with MS Exchange, Lotus Notes and other mail servers, the Open Source platform and Open data standards of Connect Xf ensure easy migration to and from it. Guaranteeing Continued Freedom in Choosing Between OSS and Proprietary Software when upgrading or enhancing the messaging infrastructure.
6. Open Source Software has a Much Wider Support both for the development of new features and in terms of the support network than any single vendor. This more democratized structure leads to lower prices and faster innovation. Support to open source software comes from large product companies like IBM, Intel, SUN, CA, Oracle, Redhat, Novell etc., large software services companies, successful small companies, well funded start-ups and a vast pool of talented individuals.
7. Enterprise customers pay a high cost for consultancy, licensing, implementation, maintenance, and management in running proprietary software such as MS Exchange (Microsoft) and Lotus Notes (IBM) for their messaging needs. On the other hand, freely down loadable software may lack both - the depth of functionality and dependability, and as a result require considerable on-going management & maintenance cost. Mithi distinguishes itself in providing solutions that can help Substantially Lower the Costs Across the Complete Life Cycle of the Email and Collaboration infrastructure.
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| CHIEF ARCHITECT AND BUSINESS PLANNER'S PERSPECTIVE: Managing the IT Strategy and ROI Assessment |
1. A highly adaptable architecture helps Connect Xf to be configured for A Wider Range of Solutions and be linked to other enterprise collaboration software to create a platform for greater productivity gains.
2. Mithi Connect Xf’s Flexible System Architecture enables Component and Network Load balancing to construct a Scalable and High Performance Email & Collaboration Setup.
3. class="lispacing">Open data standards and a Web services interface provide a framework for easy integration with 3rd party solutions for security, archival, policy etc., enabling Easy Extension of the System Capabilities.
4.Connect Xf is an Integrated Solution having Anti spam, Anti virus, Firewall, Mail server, Web mail, Instant messenger, Web calendar, Directory server etc. Many of these would be at additional costs for other solutions.
5. Connect Xf can Serve the Needs of a Multi-Location Enterprise and/or be integrated with other enterprise applications, security system etc. using a common directory service (which could be based on Open-LDAP, ADS, NDS etc.)
6. Connect Xf's Open Data Format helps Lower the Effort and Costs of Archiving, Retrieval and Migration of Data in comparison to the systems based on proprietary data formats.
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| IT MANAGER'S PERSPECTIVE: Managing Complexity and Performance |
1. Automation and remote set-up, configuration, monitoring, diagnostics and repair in Mithi Connect Xf ensure Easier Implementation, Maintenance and Management.
2. Connect Xf provides centralized controls for mail policies, user configuration management, monitor server performance etc. to make it Easier and Cheaper to Manage the Enterprise Email Service. Mithi Connect Xf provides centralized monitoring and control at the network, server, domain, group and user levels.
3. Mithi provides the Complete Life Cycle Support services to help reduce the complexity and cost of designing, implementing, maintaining and managing the mail/messaging software infrastructure.
4. Mithi provides a range of Service Back-up Facilities like, mailbox hosting, anti spam-antivirus filtering, mail parking, remote back-up, disaster recovery support etc. to ensure continuity of the messaging service.
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| END USER's PERSPECTIVE: Personal and Group Productivity |
1. Connect Xf is Compatible with Popular Desktop and Mobile Mail Clients like MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.
2. Features like Email Groups, Global Address Book, Shared Folders, Group Calendar, Instant Messenger etc. provide the Support for Group Collaboration. Additionally, Mithi Connect Xf’s ability to integrate with other enterprise applications fosters a culture of communication using email and messaging - delivering greater productivity improvements.
3. Owing to the Open Source based messaging infrastructure the users can include a Wider Choice of Personal and Group Productivity Software from Open Source software and the third party vendors.
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