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Hotel Group Improves Customer Satisfaction and Cuts Support Costs by 90 Per Cent

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infrastructure management

Overview Managers at United Kingdom-based hotel group QMH saw simplifying the company's IT infrastructure as a means to boost productivity. The QMH IT team replaced the existing Novell-based infrastructure with one built on Windows Server 2003. Since standardising on the Microsoft platform, the IT team has reduced its outsourced support contract and provides frontline employees with the tools to better help guests.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	June 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Customer Support Services, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003

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