Progressive implements Microsoft Unified Communication for India\’s Leading FMCG Company

1. Progressive implements microsoft unified
communication for india's leading
FMCG company
The fourth largest FMCG company of India • Deploying and consolidating these
with revenues of Rs 2834 crore (US$600 services centrally will provide a robust &
million) & Market capitalization of over healthy OCS platform for the client
Rs.10,000 crore (US$2.2 billion); with
Design Description
legacy of quality and experience of 125
• Progressive recommended a centralized
years, it operates in key consumer products
deployment model in which two OCS
categories including hair care, oral care,
2007 R2 Front end Server on Windows
health care, skin care and home care
Network Load Balancing were created
products
in their data centre
Challenge
• Both OCS 2007 R2 server will act as a
The client faced an increasing challenge of
Front end server for IM, Audio/Video,
supporting a highly mobile and distributed
Multi-party conferencing, Live meeting
workforce. It needed a communication and
etc.
collaboration tool to improve business
processes and drive productivity & increase • Deployment of SQL 2008 on Single
voice capabilities to help its professionals Server for Backend database for OCS
communicate more effectively. 2007 R2
• The existing Reverse Proxy Server will be
Solution
utilized for the OCS Deployment
Progressive recommended Microsoft
Office Communication Server 2007 as a • The OCS 2007 R2 Consolidate Single
solution to accelerate collaboration, Edge Server will be deployed in DMZ for
reducing administrative costs, increasing Publishing Web conferencing, A/V
workforce mobility which also provided an Conferencing, Edge Access
option for customizable automation of • 5 servers were used for OCS 2007 R2
business processes. OCS 2007 is a unified system including two for OCS 2007 R2
communication server that delivers real- Front-end and one for OCS 2007 R2
time enterprise instant messaging including Edge roles, one for ISA 2006 for reverse
audio, video- and web-conferencing and Proxy and one for SQL 2008 Back-end
helps in collaborating desktop sharing server
applications between colleagues. • Client Systems were upgraded from
Benefits Windows XP Professional to Windows
• The solution provides scalability, Vista Enterprise with Outlook 2007 and
flexibility and allow for future growth OCS 2007 R2 Client
• Reduce telephony and travel costs • Microsoft System Center Operations
Manager 2007 was installed and
• Improve district-wide communications
configured to monitor all Servers/Services
• Centralizing OCS infrastructure will
• Microsoft System Center Configuration
greatly help in operations and
Manager was installed for Managing
monitoring of OCS environment
Clients and Servers

2. • Microsoft Office Communication Server • Microsoft ISA 2006 Enterprise was
2007 was installed/configured and installed and configure as Reverse Proxy
integrated with PBX System for and Web Proxy for Users as OCS 2007
enterprise voice purpose R2 CWA and Web content sharing
Testimonial
I would like to thank the technical team
at Progressive Infotech who planned,
configured and implemented Office
Communication 2007 R2 as Unified
Communication solution and
integrated with the Messaging and
EPBX system within all the locations. It
was truly a professional approach
providing a smooth implementation for
over 1000 users.
IT operations manager
Progressive Infotech Pvt Ltd
C-161, Phase - II Extension, Noida - 201305
Phone: +91-120-4393939, Fax: +91-120-2563838