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Summary


Company Background
Our client is one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies in the world. With factories or operations in almost every country, the company is a world leader in coffee distribution, and is also one of the world’s largest bottled water and baby food makers.

Challenges and Requirements
The company was using WinZip for desktop data compression, but when WinZip was acquired by Corel and began aggressively changing their licensing policies, they were forced to deal with increased, ongoing operational costs. As a direct result, they decided to look at alternative compression tools to replace WinZip on 140,000 desktops throughout the organization.

The company had an aggressive time window to implement an alternative compression tool, so they sought a solution that could be installed quickly. While compression was the current requirement, the company's security group was hoping for a solution that would be compatible with future security needs as well. Ideally, the chosen solution would even offer an upgrade path to security.

The Solution - PKZIP
The company evaluated PKZIP and Power Archiver. They ultimately chose PKZIP due to its low cost, flexibility, and simplicity of implementation. The ability to upgrade to enterprise data security via SecureZIP was a key driver. They also liked the policy manager functionality, which gives them a central tool for managing the solution, including which employees have the ability to encrypt data.



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