OMZ (United Heavy Machinery) is one of the largest Russian heavy machinery companies. OMZ engineers, produces, markets and services equipment and machinery for nuclear industry, oil and gas complex, mining and metallurgy industry, sea and river shipping. OMZ is a public corporation with the stocks circulating at Russian and foreign (Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart) stock exchanges and also over the counter markets.

Services

• Corporate Mail System Outsourcing

Case study

In summer 2003 OMZ opened a new subsidiary in Moscow. Company executives didn't plan to have high-paid IT specialists among the staff of the new office, so OMZ applied to DATA FORT for support of Corporate Mail System.

OMZ currently hosts in DATA FORT corporate mail system on the basis of Microsoft Exchange Server 2000. DATA FORT specialists provide round-the-clock monitoring, resources and users administration, regular data backup, data protection and Internet access.

For internal purposes virtual FTP catalogue has been organized on the server providing the access of users from remote offices, including those located in St-Petersburg, Ekaterinburg and Nizhni Novgorod.

DATA FORT solution on corporate mail system establishment in the new office of OMZ eliminated the problem of accessing the system by the employees being on a business trip. Also an opportunity of video conferencing was created.

According to Sergei Nikolaev, United Heavy Machinery Deputy Director General, «Outsourcing is the most efficient model of IT service operation in the structure of our type. Thanks to high speed the mail system meets our requirements in full».