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Procurement Services Company Reduces Costs, Expands Market Scope

Overview An innovator in procurement business-process outsourcing, Xpress Source offers effective procurement practices and skilled negotiations that saved its Fortune 1000 customers more than U.S.$15 million in procurement costs in 2003. In order to expand its customer base, Xpress Source decided to deploy a secure, Web-based, automated order-entry system. To protect that system, the company chose the Network Engines NS6300 Firewall Appliance powered by Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 for its robust application-layer firewall protection and easy setup and maintenance. This solution provides Xpress Source customers with easy access to online ordering.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	November 2006	Downloads	2
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Firewalls, Network Security

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