GSS Competitive Analysis Seminar: Email and Messaging, Directory Services, and Groupware

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GSS Competitive Analysis Seminar: Email and Messaging, Directory Services, and Groupware

Messaging, calendaring and scheduling, document management, groupware, Internet, intranet, extranet: each of these areas of collaborative computing represents a different set of issues and challenges. In each area a variety of different technologies, vendors, and products compete. There are many combinations of requirements and solutions but all of them involve messaging.

Internet standards promise a bright future for messaging but today's solutions provide a mixture of open and proprietary technologies. It is not always clear how Internet messaging will integrate with other forms of collaborative computing or what this means for IT and for users. At the same time, migration from one messaging technology to another is a major undertaking.

Choosing the right messaging solution today is more involved than ever before. Decisions about messaging are long-term strategic decisions about IT architecture. GSS takes you through the vendors, the products, the market, and the technology. 

Information Versus Misinformation

Vendor claims, analyst reports, performance benchmarks, and articles in the press frequently conflict. Different technologies are often difficult to compare. At the same time, every business has unique requirements, commitments, constraints, and specific concerns. Every vendor or reseller positions their solution as the right solution for every customer. The one point on which all parties agree, is that messaging is a mission-critical component in every organizations IT infrastructure. Customers making infrastructure choices today need to understand all of their options and cut through conflicting claims.

Breaking Down the Alternatives

The GSS Competitive Analysis Seminar provides an effective combination of in-depth product analyses and comparisons with reports from the field by seasoned GSS consultants. The seminar also covers the messaging vendors, their strategies, their strengths, and their weaknesses. The GSS Competitive Analysis Seminar provides an unbiased evaluation of the following messaging vendors and solutions:

• Lotus Notes and Domino and the Domino Name and Address Book (NAB)
• Microsoft Exchange and Outlook and Active Directory
• Netscape/iPlanet (Sun ONE) Messaging and Directory Servers
• Novell GroupWise and NetWare Directory Services (NDS)

Experience the Value

With GSS customers always know what they will receive, how much they should invest, and how long it will take to achieve their goals. Over the years GSS has proven its value by helping customers successfully meet the most demanding IT challenges. GSS has relationships with major vendors that involve training and certification of GSS staff, but the certification that GSS points out most frequently is customer loyalty. GSS is successful because GSS customers are successful.

About GSS

Global System Services Corporation (GSS) is the leading provider of consulting and professional services for large-scale and distributed infrastructure systems such as email and messaging, directory services, groupware, and wireless solutions. GSS customers include Fortune 500 companies, large services providers and telecom companies, government agencies, major messaging product vendors, and innovative technology startups.

GSS provides a complementary suite of services including strategic technology consultation and competitive vendor and product analysis, product and system architecture and design, system development deployment, customization, and testing, technical support, email migration, and other IT services. GSS has been directly responsible for some of the largest global systems and solutions and counts as customers many of the largest companies in the world.

From its offices in the Silicon Valley California, GSS delivers services and solutions to customers worldwide through a network of mobile consultants and qualified GSS Affiliates. With industry certified professionals on staff, GSS is a Qualified Lotus Business Partner, a Certified Microsoft Solution Provider (MCSP), a Principal Partner in the Sun Partner Advantage program and a member of the Sun Software Partner Council, as well as a member of key industry organizations.

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