Case Studies

Corporate Communication and Security

A large consumer electronics manufacturer wished to ensure that the e-mail contact details of the permanent staff across its European businesses were all captured within a central HR database.  Additionally, as part of its Sarbanes-Oxley programme, it required the automatic disabling the network user accounts of both its permanent and contract employees whose employment had terminated.  Metaconnections was engaged to develop the necessary management agents to achieve this thereby achieving more effective corporate communication and enhancing systems security.

Joining up the Organisation

A local government organisation with an establishment of around 10,000 staff holds information about them in a wide range of systems and repositories. It was seeking a reliable way to rationalise and synchronise the data between them - and to make the data more widely available. Metaconnections was engaged to design an MIIS-based system to initiate the process and to establish a platform upon which the wider ambition could be achieved.


Global Address Book

Metaconnections was asked to complete the deployment of a metadirectory service for a leading international publishing group. This was originally based on MMS 2.2 but was redesigned and upgraded to MIIS 2003. It now synchronises address books between more than 30 separate MS Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 and Lotus Notes systems and has proved indispensable in corporate communications.


Metadirectory Deployment

A leading London local authority was expending valuable resources in trying to rationalise and synchronise the identity data held in its human resources, access control, e-mail and telephone directories. Metaconnections proposed a metadirectory solution based on Microsoft’s new MIIS 2003 product. We designed, built and tested the solution using the beta software and implemented it in production as soon as MIIS 2003 was fully released.

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Enterprise Directory Service

A UK financial services organisation chose MMS 2.2 to populate and synchronise its enterprise directory with ten other corporate and subsidiary data sources, including SQL Server, Active Directory, NT and Exchange. We were responsible for the design, development and testing of the MMS environment, all fully documented to the client’s own standards. We then assisted the client with system testing and implementation.


Account Provisioning

Working with a “big-five” consultancy, we provided metadirectory expertise on a proof of concept project for an Italian manufacturing group of 15,000 employees across 3 continents. The proposed design, using MMS 2.2 coupled with Active Directory and Commerce Server 2000, supported a complex account provisioning requirement. The design was built and proven in a lab environment and subsequently formed the basis of a global implementation across distributed MMS servers.


Address Book Synchronisation

In an organisation of 25,000 employees spread across 15 companies and 10 time zones, there was a desire to promote greater inter-company communication. A metadirectory service was proposed and created, the first live implementation of MMS (initially Zoomit VIA) in Europe. This joined 25 separate systems, including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise, and has now been operational for over 5 years.