Case Study: Au Bon Pain Cafe Bakery achieves streamlined email archiving, rapid e-discovery and $100K infrastructure savings with Mimecast

Mimecast Helps Au Bon Pain® Café Bakery Streamline Email Archiving and Retrieval, and Avoid $100K Spend on Replication Infrastructure

Au Bon Pain, a café-bakery chain with more than 300 locations and about 400 email users across 150 corporate-owned sites, faced the end-of-life of Postini and an urgent need to replace its AS/AV solution while adding reliable email archiving, retrieval and continuity. The company struggled with oversized PSTs and tape-based archives that made e‑discovery slow and expensive—requests could take weeks and cost up to $10K—and had no easy way to replicate email for failover.

Au Bon Pain selected Mimecast, completing implementation in just over a week and keeping costs roughly the same as Postini while gaining archiving, e‑discovery and business‑continuity features. The cloud solution cut e‑discovery from weeks to about an hour (saving over $10K per request), blocks roughly 75% of inbound spam from 400K monthly messages, avoided an estimated $100K replication spend, and freed IT time for higher‑value work.

Au Bon Pain Cafe Bakery

Lori Abrams

Vice President of Technical Support Services, Au Bon Pain