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Mobility is a key function in Provident Financial Romania’s success. With a mobile workforce of more than 3,000 agents and 600 field- and office-based employees, the company required reliable and instant communication to keep on top of sales. Spotty reception made it challenging for mobile employees to send and receive emails in a timely manner; and at headquarters, IT professionals were constantly juggling licenses and budgets to cover the myriad of mobile devices.
 Provident Romania also sought to eliminate the need for employees to travel to sales and training meetings, and to make it easier to share files among its satellite offices. The short-term loan provider found the cost-efficient solution it needed with Microsoft Office 365.
You can read our full "Success story" here.

The largest Microsoft's cloud project in Romania (January 18, 2011)
The largest implementation contract for a cloud solution signed by Microsoft Romania in 2011 for Office 365 has aproximative 300 users and was implemented by PRAS for Provident. Microsoft has signed last year several contracts to implement cloud solutions, but according to company representatives this isthe project that includes the largest number of users.

The projectwas conducted in several stages. Thus, in August - September we made an analysis of features and compatibility level, followed by analysis of how to migrate infrastructure and internal accounts, including those there were used in the pilot project in the cloud. In November we did the actual migration launch the system into production.
For more information visit the Ziarul Financiar website (in Romanian).