Using Connect-ME for a managed migration

The Leviton Family of Companies was established in 1906 and today includes Leviton for electrical wiring devices, Leviton Telcom for communications premise wiring products, American Insulated Wire for wire, and cable, and Electricord for power supply cords and cord sets.

Leviton products are used for Industrial, Commercial and Residential construction and maintenance, including switches, receptacles, lighting controls, plugs and connectors, TVSS devices, wallplates and more, all designed to the highest standards of quality, dependability, and performance.

Based in Flushing, NY, Leviton has for some time run the Software AG Con-nect product on their IBM mainframe for e-mail, supporting some 3,000 users.

Recently, the company has expanded its client-server environment and, as part of that move, has established the Microsoft Exchange Server suite as its future direction for electronic messaging. However, during the migration from host to PC, there was a requirement to integrate these two disparate e-mail systems together. The easiest way to do this was through the IBM SNADS e-mail protocol. After installing and testing the product in its own environment Leviton chose Connect-ME from ReSoft International to do the job.

"Connect-ME provides us with a robust yet easy-to-use gateway between the two environments allowing us to manage the timing of our migration to the Microsoft Exchange platform" comments Diva Divakaran, Chief Technologist.