They were tasked to sort through, synchronize and manage more than 20,000 user names among five messaging systems, running on various platforms, among three sites connected via our wide area network. They did surprisingly well. To view the Report card.
Corporate waters are never still, never the same.
Organizations engulfed in the swirling maelstrom of mergers, acquisitions and migrations must grapple with many upheavals, not the least of which is a variety of mail systems, most with proprietary directories. And that's no easy task, as we found out. The local directories on the five mail systems contained user entries populated with last name, first name, middle initial, alias, display name, telephone numbers and locations. Each directory had a completely different set of user names. We used frame relay, ISDN or the Internet for our WAN connectivity.