AMP dumps Lotus notes for hosted Exchange, boos LotusLive
Tags :LotusLive Exchange Sharepoint Google Apps.
I was saddened to read on ITNews that AMP becomes the first cloud computing client to CSC in Australia with their move to hosted Exchange and Sharepoint.
Financial services firm AMP has dumped Lotus Notes, looking to instead rent Microsoft's collaboration tools over the network from the Australian data centres of CSC.
What I found most interesting and was wanting to read, is why they chose that solution. LotusLive was listed and here was the areas in which they tested:
AMP's IT Director for service management Sharmini Sivathas told iTnews that "extensive pilots were undertaken to evaluate the end-user experience for several platforms."This review assessed such factors as security, information risk and regulatory requirements, interoperability and integration risk, cost, mobile device support, reliability, support models available, usability and end user feedback.
I don't think LotusLive failed any of these. It all had to to deal with AMP being a ten (10) year customer of CSC and wanting to keep their data and solutions in Australia instead. The factor of location was more than obvious in the article and should have been stressed more.
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On Friday, July 30th, 2010 by Chris Miller
