Company Profile

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (Europe) Ltd. has a head office in London together with a series of branch offices throughout Europe. The company is part of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group which is one of the world's largest general insurance companies.

Business Type 

Insurance

Solution Summary

This system provides MSI (Europe) with a secure, responsive, reliable, functional e-mail system that supports multiple character sets including Japanese which can be accessed both from the internal network or remotely using a secure web interface. The system also delivers a secure WAN/VPN environment across Europe to allow secure sharing of data, the deployment of Europe wide applications and the provision of a central repository for commonly shared data. The end package is transparent to the users saving both working time and money.

Business Issue

MSI (Europe) required a European wide communication strategy which would allow the various offices to communicate and share information securely.

John Harrington IT Manager of MSI (Europe) said, “The decision to move to a Blue Box solution was a commercial rather than a technical decision and was based on 3 key criteria: security, stability and cost. Cost was a major factor because we had to carefully consider the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) argument in the context of a network of European Branch offices with limited IT skills.”

The Blue Box solution replaces Lotus Notes as the company's system for both internal and web based mail.

Key Benefits

• Cost effective internal and web based mail system

• Promotes sharing of information in a secure VPN environment

• Central repository for data storage

• Deployment of applications on a European wide basis

• Low Total Cost of Ownership

• Remote Support requires little internal IT skills