Wedlake Bell Case Study

Wedlake Bell is a top 100 law firm based in central London. In common with law firms worldwide, Wedlake Bell has come to rely on email as a critical communication tool and had deployed a complex set of point solutions to support their Exchange Infrastructure, including Symantec Enterprise Vault. But, by 2007, the sheer volume of email communication was overwhelming their Enterprise Vault archive. Riana Nel, IT Manager, said "At that point we were running Exchange Server 2007, and had ever growing mailboxes. Storage was running out of control and we had some real performance issues with Enterprise Vault as a result." Riana was keen to avoid the pitfalls of the past, by identifying a solution that would solve Wedlake Bells' core email management issues, while eliminating complexity and reducing cost. As a result, she was keen to evaluate cloud-based email management solutions. "Really it was a no-brainer just to have one supplier and one product that could give us email security, continuity and archiving all in one. What I was looking for in the cloud was a solution that would do that, while also reducing cost and complexity, essentially by removing the need for us to manage these solutions on site." With those requirements in mind, Riana settled on Mimecast Unified Email Management (UEM) as the ideal solution: "Mimecast won because it ticked all the boxes in terms of delivering a single, integrated solution. But we could clearly see that it would be easy to use, it would remove complexity and it would help us to reduce cost."