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IT Services Provider Increases Productivity, Gains Knowledge With Upgrade

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Overview Maxima Ireland is an IT services provider based in Dublin, Ireland. The company has 32 employees and approximately 150 small, medium, and enterprise customers in both the private and public sectors. The company wanted to upgrade to the Windows 7 operating system to gain hands-on knowledge to better serve its customers. By adopting technology early, the company is able to pass along lessons learned and IT value. Maxima Ireland already benefits from enhanced security, increased productivity, and improved ability to help customers.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Network Operating Systems, Windows 7

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