Yokozuna and Mailbox.hu

YOKOZUNA CO. is a developer of single sign-on (SSO) and portal systems, based in Hungary. 

Mailbox.hu is one of Hungary's oldest e-mail providers, providing email services since 2000. 

Challenge 

Mailbox.hu was looking for a more cost effective e-mail server solution with higher availability and stability that would provide users with a modern user interface and broad functionality.  Their prior system had significant server, software and maintenance needs, and was based on in-house development.  Mailbox.hu decided to use Yokozuna’s solution where mail, contact data and user databases were migrated into Google Apps Partner Edition.

Solution  

Yokozuna devised a new system using Google Apps SSO and Provisioning Toolkit packages. This enabled users to log in with their current mailbox.hu accounts.  Yokozuna integrated the design of Mailbox.hu, and the login procedure and the registration database through the SSO (single sign-on) and provisioning API's.  Nearly 70,000 mailboxes were migrated including contact lists and complete correspondence and there were no system shutdowns.

Yokozuna provides 24/7 physical maintenance for the front-end (firewall, database, webserver, subsystem, etc.) and provides business hours support 7 days a week for end users through email and blogs.   Customer service receives constant technical support and extended help to aid the introduction of the new system. Since Mailbox.hu's service is free of charge to end users there is a constant focus on potential spam and abuse. Yokozuna maintenance addresses these issues with the help of the regular reports from Google's spam/abuse control engineering team, Yokozuna developed a back-end script tool to manage this list more efficiently.   

Results  

Mailbox.hu now has a stable e-mail system which by April 2009 has resulted in user growth from 70,000 to 250,000 users.  Mailbox.hu reports a considerable decrease in operating hardware and software infrastructure, which in turn resulted in the drastic reduction of operating costs.

Yokozuna and Postino

YOKOZUNA CO. is a developer of high availability SSO and portal systems. We deal with the research and development of high technology applications.

Postino operates a free multilingual user interface mailing system in a number of countries.

Challenges

The aim of Postino.net was to establish a unified login interface containing all its systems and reduce software development, hardware investments and costs at the same time. They were also looking for an e-mail server background that would be capable of operating in different languages.

Solution

Postino.net chose Yokozuna’s solution that unified the user interface and harmonised the server background, while migrating correspondence information and the users’ database into the Google Apps Partner Edition programme.  

Yokozuna devised a new system on the basis of the Google Apps SSO and Provisioning Toolkit packages. It is more than a simple Google Apps integration because it provides unique design and data registration, and a direct marketing tool integration. E-mail service to 7 countries is done with the use of a common frontend. Mailboxes, e-mails and contact information were transferred into the Google Apps system.

Results

"The Yokozuna solution made it possible to decrease the number of hardware and software in operation as well as the simplification of administration and customer support with a single sign on system." - Eszter Mogyorósi, owner of Postino.