OREANDA-NEWS. August 09, 2010. AMT BANK became one of the first Russian banks, which implemented the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, the most up-to-date version of the message exchange system by Microsoft. The final stage of implementation was completed in July 2010. The Bank arranged that every employee of the Bank use the new mail system and abandoned IBM Lotus Notes, which was earlier used for document circulation, reported the press-centre of AMT BANK.

“The new mail system on the Exchange Server 2010 platform with the desktop application Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Outlook Web App simplified planning business time of the bank’s employees and allowed to efficiently arrange business processes related to documents” – says Mr. Igor Koval, Executive Director at AMT BANK.

“Today many companies face the task of modernizing the message exchange and mutual work support platform in accordance with the existing requirements. We are pleased to see that the Bank prefers solutions by Microsoft, and we are sure that in the near future it is going to appreciate all of the advantages of the Exchange Server both for the business and the IT” – notes Mr. Pavel Kuzmenko, Head of Microsoft Office Information Systems Promotion in Russia.

By starting to use the Exchange Server 2010 and Outlook 2010, the Bank simplified electronic approval of documents, cut costs for maintenance of respective systems and refused fr om the out-of-date approach to using electronic document circulation contained in the previous system.

The project of implementation of the Exchange Server 2010 and Outlook 2010 at AMT BANK took about a month. The Exchange Server 2010 was installed on the same server equipment, wh ere Lotus Notes earlier operated. The applications Outlook 2010 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 were installed onto users’ workstations. Top management of the Bank obtained the possibility to look through e-mails and answer letters by using pocket computers (PPC or PDA). Employees discuss business issues via e-mail or the Communicator, which combines exchange of instant messages and voice communication. The IT service of the Bank, in turn, obtained access to the remote web interface Outlook Web App, thanks to which the round-the-clock user technical support was arranged at the Bank.