Reckitt Benckiser Plc
Household cleaning products giant Reckitt Benckiser Plc uses MaX Compression to cut email connection times and network traffic loading.
Environment:
- 113 Exchange Servers
- 8600 email users in 56 countries
- Large number of remote users
For Reckitt Benckiser’s large traveling user community, the ability to exchange documents by attaching them to email messages is especially important. But downloading email remotely from international hotels and cell phone links carries a heavy call charge premium, so the organization looked for a way to reduce download times – and therefore costs.
The technology team first discovered MaX Compression when it was a subject of discussion in an Exchange-focused electronic newsgroup. Gunar Braaf, Manager – Enterprise Architecture Information Services in London, takes up the story:
“We had seen a lot of positive comments and recommendations for MaX Compression on email discussion groups and consultant’s reports and we thought it may help provide an answer to our increasing bandwidth and communication costs. We considered using a conventional compression tool like WinZip but we would have had to rely on users to compress the files before they sent them, which they don’t always remember or bother to do. Max Compression would automate the process and give the Exchange administrator control over compression settings.”
The corporate IS team downloaded MaX Compression from C2C’s website and began an evaluation program. Testing showed that they could indeed achieve reduced download times for remote email users and, equally importantly for the whole organization, reduce the overall email traffic level to free up network bandwidth. This would result in faster communication times across the corporate network and more efficient use of existing bandwidth, deferring expensive bandwidth upgrades.
Gunar Braaf continues: “MaX Compression soon became part of the global Standard Desktop.”
Travelling Light
The principal benefit to Reckitt Benckiser of using MaX Compression has been the reduced download time and associated costs for traveling users. After tests, the technology team has achieved a time saving improvement in some cases of 50%. The time savings have been recognized by the group’s executive management, which reflects well on the IS department’s decision to invest in the software.