Case Study: Hanson Professional Services Inc. achieves 40-hour weekly email administration savings and eliminates email outage impact with Mimecast

Architectural Firm Chooses Archiving and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Hanson Professional Services is a national, employee‑owned engineering and consulting firm with more than 400 email users. Rapid growth drove a steep rise in email volume, creating large PST files, limited internal archiving, no message logging, increasing spam false positives and slow vendor support—problems that strained IT resources and left the company vulnerable to Exchange outages that disrupted productivity.

Hanson moved email management to Mimecast’s cloud‑based, unified service for archiving, continuity, anti‑spam/anti‑virus and logging. The solution made archived mail searchable in minutes, shrank user mailboxes, and made Exchange outages invisible to users and clients (no help‑desk calls during a server failure). IT reclaimed roughly 40 hours per week—equivalent to one full‑time staffer—and Mimecast’s message forensics even helped Hanson validate delivery on a $1.5M proposal.

Hanson Professional Services Inc.

Robert Stidham

IT Manager