Microsoft Windows Server System Customer Solution Case Study

Foundation Lowers Cost of Ownership with Switch from Linux to Microsoft

Overview “The new IT infrastructure will allow the Padre Country or Region: Brazil Anchieta Foundation to make a quality leap in work Industry: Media and Entertainment in keeping with the high standard that is its Customer Profile trademark.” Located in São Paulo, Brazil, the Padre Anchieta Foundation operates the Paulo José Spaccaquerche, IT Manager, Padre Anchieta Foundation television broadcasting station TV Cultura and radio stations Cultura AM The Padre Anchieta Foundation, which runs a TV station and and FM. two radio stations in Brazil, wanted to modernize its Linux-based Business Situation IT infrastructure. The foundation was using a decentralized The foundation was using Linux-based technology that was out-of-date and system based on technology that was several years old. With decentralized. help from Microsoft partner Brasoftware, it conducted a cost

Solution analysis and measured its technology demands. Based on that After measuring its technology needs information, the Padre Anchieta Foundation decided to migrate and conducting a cost analysis, the foundation decided to switch from Linux t from the Linux system. It deployed Microsoft® software such as o Microsoft® software. Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Systems Management Server

Benefits 2003, and Exchange Server 2003. By deploying the new  Lower cost of ownership solution, the foundation has lowered its cost of ownership  Centralized, collaborative environment  Improved stability and security through reduced management and training costs. It has also gained a centralized, collaborative environment that offers improved stability and security. Situation running the Windows® XP operating Established in 1967 by the São Paulo State system and Microsoft Office Professional Government, the Padre Anchieta Edition 2003. The organization also Foundation runs the television replaced its previous database solution broadcasting station TV Cultura and radio based on Oracle and other free systems stations Cultura AM and FM on budgets with Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000. established by law and funds obtained “Adopting a Microsoft platform at that time through private initiative. The foundation’s was a question of survival. Even though the main objective is to provide news to the budget was very small, we were able to general public and promote the educational achieve our objective of making the and cultural development of its viewers and network more stable and secure,” listeners. Spaccaquerche says. The contract was signed under a special government At the end of 2004, the foundation decided agreement guaranteeing ready payment of to restructure its IT infrastructure for the the project. purpose of modernizing its portal. “Detailed analysis of the environment revealed that The implementation was completed in less the technology resources were about eight than four months. According to years out of date,” says Paulo José Spaccaquerche, defining the user profiles Spaccaquerche, IT Manager at the Padre and obtaining the respective licenses were Anchieta Foundation. The Linux-based greatly facilitated by the Active Directory® data network was decentralized and did not service in Windows Server 2003. In have a standardized operating system. In parallel, the foundation replaced Postfix addition, Spaccaquerche says, “There were with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 for e- no criteria in place for usage, connection, mail and used Microsoft Systems or future expansion.” Management Server (SMS) 2003 for configuration management. By February Solution 2006, the foundation already had 16 The Padre Anchieta Foundation decided to Microsoft-based server computers deploy an IT infrastructure to serve as a dedicated to specific functions. The basis for current and future IT operations. It foundation plans to update another 800 hired Microsoft partner Brasoftware to help computers by the end of 2006. the internal IT group conduct a Total Property Cost (TPC) analysis and measure To update its portal, the foundation will technology demands. Based on this implement Microsoft Office SharePoint® information, the Padre Anchieta Foundation Portal Server 2003. The organization also decided to move away from the Linux plans to upgrade its database system to system. SQL Server 2005 after it migrates from its Microsiga enterprise resource planning The foundation deployed 12 new server solution, which runs on Oracle. computers running on the Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 operating system Benefits and approximately 350 workstations “People today are By switching from Linux to Microsoft With a single password, employees have software, the Padre Anchieta Foundation access to all network resources and can working in a has lowered its total cost of ownership, share agendas and files and work more collaborative improved employee collaboration, and dynamically and productively. increased system stability and security. Spaccaquerche expects that employees environment that didn’t “The new IT infrastructure will allow the will soon have SharePoint Portal Server exist before.” Padre Anchieta Foundation to make a 2003 as another element furthering quality leap in work in keeping with the high collaboration in all areas of the Paulo José Spaccaquerche, IT Manager, standard that is its trademark,” says organization, from journalism and Padre Anchieta Foundation Spaccaquerche. production to business and marketing.

Lower Cost of Ownership Improved Stability and Security In the past, the foundation often assumed The migration has also led to better that a free operating system like Linux reliability and helped improve security. would be more beneficial from a financial “This new environment, which is totally standpoint. However, it did not take into standardized and controlled with the help of consideration the costs involved in Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and managing the environment and training SMS 2003, is also more stable and offers employees. increased security to users and administrators,” says Spaccaquerche. “Before, software or hardware purchases were made in isolation without really looking into what type of resource would be most appropriate or what volume could generate purchase discounts,” says Spaccaquerche. By standardizing on Microsoft software, the foundation incurred a low initial cost and eliminated significant expenditures on the training and services required by an open-source solution. With the Microsoft platform, the IT group could teach itself how to use all the resources available.

Centralized, Collaborative Environment The solution has helped the foundation create and adapt to new, better- coordinated operating procedures. “People today are working in a collaborative environment that didn’t exist before,” Spaccaquerche says. For More Information Microsoft Windows Server System For more information about Microsoft Microsoft Windows Server System is a line products and services, call the Microsoft of integrated and manageable server Sales Information Center at (800) 426- software designed to reduce the complexity 9400. In Canada, call the Microsoft and cost of IT. Windows Server System Canada Information Centre at (877) 568- enables you to spend less time and budget 2495. Customers who are deaf or hard- on managing your systems so that you can of-hearing can reach Microsoft text focus your resources on other priorities for telephone (TTY/TDD) services at (800) you and your business. 892-5234 in the United States or (905) 568-9641 in Canada. Outside the 50 For more information about Windows United States and Canada, please Server System, go to: contact your local Microsoft subsidiary. www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem To access information using the World Wide Web, go to: www.microsoft.com

For more information about Padre Anchieta Foundation, visit the Web site at: www.tvcultura.com.br

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Document published May 2006