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“This new solution from Microsoft gives us the remote access we need to stay connected. We can now seamlessly access e-mails, documents, and schedules from all of our branch offices.”
Jody Morrissey, Owner, JPA Landscape & Construction

JPA carries out commercial landscaping services across the San Francisco Bay area. As the company grew to more than 100 employees, it faced challenges with e-mail, file sharing, calendar scheduling and providing stable remote access for a branch office. After implementing Microsoft Windows Small Business Server with terminal services, JPA gained more productivity, improved scheduling of projects and solid remote access for branch workers.

Business Needs
JPA Landscape & Construction provides a full range of commercial landscape services throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. As the company grew to more than 100 employees and opened a branch office, it found that the Microsoft technology it had installed many years before no longer was meeting its needs and was eager to upgrade from Microsoft Windows 2000 to a later, more advanced Windows server.

With more people and more locations, JPA was having difficulty in its current configuration with e-mail, file sharing and calendar scheduling. Productivity was suffering as an increasing number of employees spent hours trying to share more files. Customer relationships were impacted because scheduling with clients was uncertain when e-mail and calendaring were overtaxed. Additionally, remote access for the branch office was sporadic. JPA looked to a more powerful and flexible server to support its growing staff both in the main office and remotely.

Solution
Working with Microsoft Gold Certified partner Lanlogic, of Livermore, California, JPA implemented Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS) with terminal services to enable secure access to the server from remote sites. Lanlogic developed a new IT network for JPA that created a truly collaborative work environment with safe and seamless remote access for the branch office. All of the user profiles and data were migrated to SBS so that users could retain the same identities and group permissions they had been using. Within two weeks of launching the implementation, JPA had begun operating with its new IT network.

Benefits
With its advanced Microsoft technology, JPA is functioning much more productively and is able to attract more new business than it could manage previously. The solution is helping to drive process improvements, cost reductions in regaining lost time, a stable e-mail and calendaring system, and solid contact with branch office employees.

• JPA is gaining improvements in business intelligence, communication and collaboration.
  By eliminating the time previously spent locating lost information and making duplicate entries, JPA has reduced its costs.
• The company now is better able to schedule client projects for efficiency.
• Workers in the branch office now have highly reliable access to the server. As a result, the process of working with company files, e-mail, calendars and client contacts has become consistent and seamless.

Customer: JPA Landscape & Construction
Web Site: www.jpalandscape.com
Customer Size: 100-5,000
Country or Region: United States
Industry: Landscaping & Construction
Partner: Lanlogic

Customer Profile
JPA Landscape & Construction, founded in Pleasanton, Calif., provides a balanced and complete line of landscaping services for commercial, retail and residential properties across the Bay area.

June 23, 2008 Garden City, NY, and Livermore, CA -Proginet Corporation (OTCBB: PRGF), a leading developer of enterprise software for advanced managed file transfer and security applications, and Lanlogic, Inc., an innovative provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange solutions, today announced a new partnership to deliver hosted e-mail attachment management solutions to businesses of all sizes. Through this agreement, Lanlogic will offer Proginet’s CFI Slingshot to customers of its hosted Microsoft Exchange services, enabling users to easily exchange files of any size within and outside their organizations.

Lanlogic provides hosted services and technology support to over 4,000 customers worldwide. Its dedicated Exchange server hosting programs provide customers with the same IT foundation as the world’s largest companies without the complexities and costs of maintaining the systems themselves. By adding Proginet’s Slingshot solution to its hosted offerings for Microsoft Exchange users, Lanlogic will enable its customers to send and receive large files without the need to deploy and manage additional software locally within their organizations.

“With Slingshot, Proginet has an innovative solution that addresses the major attachment management challenges faced by businesses,” said Joe Foos, Director of Sales and Marketing for Lanlogic. “At Lanlogic, we recognize that as the size of files exchanged by businesses continues to grow, so too must our ability to provide customers with the best solutions for exchanging them. Partnering with Proginet gives Lanlogic a distinct competitive advantage by helping its customers overcome the file-size limitations enforced by most e-mail systems. This will enable our customers to conduct business more efficiently.”

The hosted e-mail market represents a significant growth opportunity for CFI Slingshot. According to recent research by Gartner, “Driven by dropping prices and new vendors, the market for hosted e-mail mailboxes is poised for rapid growth over the next five years, from 1% of enterprise seats in 2007 to 20% in 2019.” *

“Lanlogic has a strong history of leadership in the hosted Exchange market,” stated Kevin Bohan, Chief Information Officer for Proginet. “By incorporating Slingshot into their solution, they completely eliminate file-size limitations for their clients. In a market that’s becoming increasingly competitive, this translates into a major competitive differentiator. In addition, the partnership enables Proginet to gain a solid foothold in the rapidly growing market for hosted e-mail solutions. We look forward to working together closely to solve the attachment-management challenges of our mutual customers.”

* Gartner, Inc., E-Mail Hosting: Poised for Explosive Growth, Matthew W. Cain, February 22, 2008.

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About Lanlogic
Lanlogic was founded in 1995 as a network service company. This was at the beginning of the Internet revolution and the company’s original focus was on bringing e-mail and Web browsing services to the marketplace. In the process of doing this, the company discovered that most customer networks were not properly configured to efficiently leverage the Internet, and that the ISP’s of the day were so overwhelmed that they could not provide an acceptable level of service. To solve these problems, Lanlogic decided to build its own ISP network and to expand its consulting services to provide full support for its customer’s networks. Over time, the company has proven capable of providing a much higher level of service at a lower cost by combining both disciplines. In 2001, the company began offering its ISP and hosting services to consultants and integrators looking for a partner rather than just another vendor. Lanlogic currently has customers located in all 50 states and in 20 countries. For more information, visit www.lanlogic.com.

About Proginet Corporation
Proginet Corporation is a leading developer of enterprise software for advanced managed file transfer and security applications. Throughout its 20-plus year history, the company has earned an excellent reputation for its multi-platform expertise and dedication to customer service. The company’s flagship solution, CyberFusion Integration Suite (CFI)T, is the world’s most advanced managed file transfer solution, and supports all major computing platforms, from Windows to the Mainframe. Proginet’s global customer base spans more than 30 countries and includes many Fortune 500 companies. The company is headquartered in New York, with offices in Toronto, Canada, and is publicly traded under the symbol (OTCBB: PRGF). For more information, visit www.proginet.com.