Case Study: Aveng achieves simplified, compliant cloud email archiving and faster retrieval with Mimecast

Aveng builds a stronger business by reducing complexity and moving it into the cloudhttps://www.mimecast.com/globalassets/documents/customer-case-studies/sa-customer-case-studies/cs_avenggroup.pdf

Aveng, a leading South African construction and steel manufacturing group with thousands of staff and very high email volumes (over 50,000 messages daily in its construction business), faced mounting challenges around storing, monitoring and retrieving email to meet new governance and compliance requirements. CIO John Koninis needed a rock‑solid archiving solution that integrated seamlessly with the company’s Novell GroupWise environment and ruled out in‑house builds for non‑core services.

Aveng outsourced email archiving and hygiene to Mimecast’s cloud SaaS, integrating Mimecast with its NetWare/GroupWise setup so users saw no change in email access while Mimecast handled scanning, archival and web‑based search. The rollout cut local data storage by storing single large attachments centrally, delivered near‑instant message retrieval for investigations, reduced dependence on legacy spam tools, resolved initial bandwidth issues, and gave Aveng predictable long‑term costs and strong vendor support.

Aveng

John Koninis

Chief Information Office