Microsoft Office 365 Customer Solution Case Study Non-Profit Organization Uses Technology to Reduce Costs and Improve Services “We have acquired the combined power of email, Overview Country or Region: India calendaring, collaboration and communication Industry: Not for Profit solutions….an improved level of efficiency and better Customer Profile coordination using Microsoft solutions.” Founded in 2000, The Akshaya Patra Foundation runs school lunch programs Shridhar Venkat, Executive Director, The Akshaya Foundation across India. It aims to reach out to five The Akshaya Patra Foundation serves midday meals to million children by 2020. underprivileged children. It uses technology to maximize Business Situation efficiency and minimize costs. To accommodate more users, Akshaya Patra was using an on-premise email solution. It was unable to improve communication, increase uptime and decrease costs, it accommodate the increasing number of transitioned from the existing on-premise Microsoft Exchange users. Frequent downtime and outages were impacting productivity and Server to Microsoft Office 365, the cloud-based service. In increasing maintenance costs. addition, it deployed Dynamics AX to improve financial Solution management and bring transparency to its operations. With Akshaya Patra migrated to cloud-based these, Akshaya Patrahas benefited from better communication Microsoft Office 365. This provides a full set of communication and productivity and collaboration, and messaging with Exchange Online and tools. Lync Online. It will soon facilitate sharing of documents and Benefits reports using SharePoint Online. The new, hosted service Improves uptime, reduces IT burden reduces the administrative burden on the IT team. The solution Reduces costs, simplifies licensing Ensures effective collaboration, saves improves uptime from 75 percent to 100 percent and reduces time the operating cost by 50 percent. Improves efficiency with better tools
Microsoft Office 365 Customer Solution Case Study Non-Profit Organization Uses Technology to Reduce Costs and Improve Services Overview Country or Region: India Industry: Not for Profit Customer Profile Founded in 2000, The Akshaya Patra Foundation runs school lunch programs across India. It aims to reach out to five million children by 2020. Business Situation Akshaya Patra was using an on-premise email solution. It was unable to accommodate the increasing number of users. Frequent downtime and outages were impacting productivity and increasing maintenance costs. Solution Akshaya Patra migrated to cloud-based Microsoft Office 365. This provides a full set of communication and productivity tools. Benefits Improves uptime, reduces IT burden Reduces costs, simplifies licensing Ensures effective collaboration, saves time Improves efficiency with better tools “We have acquired the combined power of email, calendaring, collaboration and communication solutions….an improved level of efficiency and better coordination using Microsoft solutions.” Shridhar Venkat, Executive Director, The Akshaya Foundation The Akshaya Patra Foundation serves midday meals to underprivileged children. It uses technology to maximize efficiency and minimize costs. To accommodate more users, improve communication, increase uptime and decrease costs, it transitioned from the existing on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server to Microsoft Office 365, the cloud-based service. In addition, it deployed Dynamics AX to improve financial management and bring transparency to its operations. With these, Akshaya Patrahas benefited from better communication and collaboration, and messaging with Exchange Online and Lync Online. It will soon facilitate sharing of documents and reports using SharePoint Online. The new, hosted service reduces the administrative burden on the IT team. The solution improves uptime from 75 percent to 100 percent and reduces the operating cost by 50 percent.
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