Case Study: Altour Travel Company achieves 50% less spam and unified cloud email management with Mimecast

Manual email backups and retrieval soak up IT's valuable time

Altour, a leading U.S. travel company with about 1,000 employees (500 in the U.S.), relied on email for reservations and daily operations but faced growing risk and overhead from weekly Exchange backups, a fragmented multi-domain infrastructure, limited anti-spam/anti-virus protection, and no robust continuity — all of which consumed significant IT time and threatened business disruption.

Altour adopted Mimecast’s cloud-based unified email management for archiving, security, continuity and policy management. The SaaS rollout across 70 locations automated offsite archiving with fast web/Outlook retrieval, blocked spam before it entered the network (reducing inbound email volume by roughly 50%), added disaster recovery/business continuity, freed IT to focus on innovation, avoided more than $75,000 in hardware, and is being expanded to support the company’s growth.

Altour Travel Company

Manny Amare

IT Director