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«Perfetti van Melle» remains leader in confectionary market using SaaS technology
With the service “Elisa Meeting” «Perfetti van Melle» - the privately owned global company, that manufacturesand distributes sugar confectionery and chewing gum products under highly renowned brands like Fruit-tella, Meller, Alpenliebe, Mentos, Chupa Chups, has essentially decreased the operational expenses, and also has raised overall performance with partners and clients. The service is provided on SaaS-model, which has allowed immediately to estimate results.
The Perfetti Van Melle group has corporate headquarters in Lainate (Italy) and Breda (The Netherlands), employs some 12,000 people and operates throughout the world with locations in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. For the market leadership preservation, the top-management decided to improve and modernize communication tools inside the company, essentially decrease the operational expenses, and also raise overall performance with partners and clients. Implementation performance was the basic criteria for the solution choice.
«First of all we was looking for the solution for the internal communications between colleagues from all over the World without to leave our working places, with the opportunity to work together on documents and audio and video recording, - comments Head of IT-department “Perfetti van Melle” Igor Blagidze, - Optimizing our costs, including IT costs, we made a decision to buy virtual conference service on SaaS model just because it allowed us to immediately estimate results of work and concentrate on our business goals, and have chosen Microsoft Live Meeting 2007 by Elisa Russia.».
Live Meeting 2007 unites different communication channels, creating more comfortable work conditions, integrated flesh - video- and audiofiles help to use a wide spectrum of materials for teamwork.
“Remote access to the solution, is carried out through the protected protocol, that allows to hand over with due level of safety the information through a network the Internet, - comments technical director of Elisa Russia Andrei Bogorev, - We give special attention to confidentiality and availability of the data placed on servers in ours Data-centres. The customers data are logically isolated from each other that excludes possibility of deliberate and inadvertent reading by extraneous persons. All equipment is in failure-safe clasters, and the information is exposed to reserve copying”.
About «Perfetti van Melle»:
Perfetti Van Melle is a privately owned global company that manufactures
and distributes sugar confectionery and chewing gum products in over
130 countries under highly renowned brands like Mentos®, Alpenliebe®,
Frisk®, Fruittella®, Golia®, Happydent® and Vivident®. Perfetti Van Melle
achieved net sales of over € 1.4 billion for the year ending December
2005. Perfetti Van Melle employs some 12,000 people and operates
throughout the world with locations in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the
Americas. The Perfetti Van Melle group has corporate headquarters in
Lainate (Italy) and Breda (The Netherlands).
Perfetti Van Melle´s innovative and entrepreneurial culture, similar to that
of Chupa Chups, creates the basis for a successful combination, and this
has been one of the determining factors for the Spanish group to
conclude this agreement.
Perfetti acquired Van Melle in 2001, creating one of the largest
confectionery companies in the world. Perfetti´s successful management
of the merger and the sensitive integration of the Dutch and Italian
cultures provide an excellent precedent for a good transition.