Voit Real Estate Services Simplifies IT Management with LiveOffice Hosted Solutions

Cloud-Based Email and Archiving Solutions Streamline Growing Operations and Reduce Costs

TORRANCE, Calif., May 18, 2010 – Live Office, the number-one provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email compliance and email continuity solutions, today announced that Voit Real Estate Services has deployed LiveOffice Hosted Exchange 2007, LiveOffice Personal Archive and LiveOffice Discovery Archive to simplify email service across multiple office locations, improve mailbox management with unlimited storage and reduce IT management time.

Voit Real Estate Services is a robust, debt-free and privately owned operator of commercial real estate services throughout the western United States. In existence for almost 40 years through multiple market cycles, the organization has evolved into a full-service real estate company with expertise as a real estate owner, operator, asset manager, broker, property manager, contractor and developer. Voit’s in-depth experience is demonstrated in the 45-million square feet of property it has developed, managed and acquired, and $32 billion in brokerage transactions over its history. With approximately 190 users and eight offices spread across California, Arizona and Nevada, reliable and hassle-free email and archiving solutions are imperative to keep its operations running smoothly.

Like most companies, Voit had to tighten its belt to weather the economic storm. Finding a solution that reduced overhead by eliminating server maintenance, added an easy-to-use archive solution, improved spam filtering and provided a disaster recovery plan was imperative. “LiveOffice helped us by taking away an expensive in-house IT product, but still giving us all the tools we had before and more,” said Jim Sillasen, director of IT. “Email is critical to our operations, and now it’s one less thing to worry about. The LiveOffice solutions have freed up 25 percent of our IT department’s time.”

Offloading the email management burden to LiveOffice has had a significant impact on Voit. “Our Hosted Exchange service is going really well,” said Sillasen. “It’s reliable and has good performance. Exchange itself is always operating great.”

The company’s main reason for archiving was mailbox management. End users were constantly hitting mailbox storage limits and creating .psts locally, which is very problematic. “LiveOffice archiving has been a major improvement for end users,” said Sillasen. “Our 2 GB mailbox limit is not a problem – if they hit the limit, they can just delete if they need to, since they can find whatever they need in the archive. It’s fantastic for finding things. One user lost his inbox for an entire week and was able to retrieve it in Personal Archive. Another user wiped out his entire sent folder, but it was no problem—I told him to check in the archive and he was able to restore everything.”

Although e-discovery was not a major deciding factor in implementing an email archiving solution, it helped Voit’s management team see the value of an archiving solution. And it has since proven to be a valuable addition to their suite of services. “Compliance is an added boon for us,” said Sillasen. “Discovery Archive is one of the greatest things about our switch to LiveOffice. Management asked me to monitor some emails for inappropriate content, and I was able to quickly and easily pull the emails up and create a .pst of the search. It works really well.”

“LiveOffice is pretty much our first big hosted solution, and management has seen the benefits of SaaS,” said Sillasen. “Other departments are now switching to hosted models and can now work more efficiently. LiveOffice was the catalyst.”

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