Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel) has deployed the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System running on the SolarisTM 9 Operating System (Solaris OS), to support its new eMessaging solution targeted at small- to medium-sized enterprises in Western Canada.

SaskTel is a full-service communications company that offers complete wire-line, wireless, Internet and e-Business solutions to businesses and residents in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Implementing the Sun Java Enterprise System with the aid of SunSM Services consultants enabled SaskTel to cut 12 months from the time-to-market for the new service.

This translates, according to an analysis by E-Business Strategies, into more than $4 million in net present value. The same analysis projects a three-year ROI based on the initial Sun Java Enterprise System subscription at more than 700 percent.

"With roughly 454,000 business and residential customers, we needed a simple and affordable solution that would grow with the company. The Java Enterprise System provides us with the flexibility we need to meet our business goals by expanding our portfolio to satisfy growing business communication needs with a full and expandable suite of services," said Curt Smith, general manager, SaskTel. "Today, when you use the term mail service, it's no longer just thought of as e-mail the application. It includes directory services, calendar services, storage on the server, wireless capabilities, as well as the other applications that come around to make it more of a software system -- and the Java Enterprise System provided all those components in one integrated system."

"Sun continues to see widespread adoption of the Java Enterprise System in vertical markets such as telecommunications and healthcare where customers can easily leverage the innovative infinite usage model to deliver value-added services to users and partners at no extra cost," said John Loiacono, executive vice president of Software at Sun. "Sun has seen tremendous market demand for the Java Enterprise System since its release in early 2004, demonstrating that the value proposition of reducing infrastructure software cost and complexity is resonating with CIOs."

An additional element in SaskTel's having achieved so aggressive a time-to-market was the assistance provided by Sun Services, which conducted a two-day architecture workshop -- a standard service for Sun customers with more than 1,000 employees -- to identify business and technology requirements, plot an implementation road map and build an overarching architecture design for the solution.

Readers interested in learning more about how SaskTel is using the Java Enterprise System and E-Business Strategies' methodology for calculating ROI can visit:

http://www.sun.com/service/about/success/recent/sasktel.html [...read more...]

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