Case Study: SMS Engineering achieves increased mobile productivity and secure, auditable file sharing with OpenText Open Workgroup Suite and Filr Advanced

Micro Focus Open Workgroup Suite and Filr Advanced team up to deliver increased user productivity and IT efficiency

SMS Engineering, a Winnipeg-based firm serving Canada’s building industry for over 50 years, faced the challenge of supporting an increasingly mobile workforce with large, sensitive project files while maintaining a lightweight IT team. Cloud services lacked the security and auditability they required, and engineers needed a simple way to upload photos and access project folders from job sites.

By standardizing on Micro Focus Open Workgroup Suite—using GroupWise for messaging, ZENworks for automated endpoint management, and Filr Advanced for secure, auditable file sharing—SMS enabled mobile uploads, single-file downloads, netfolders, and unauthenticated external uploads. The result was higher field productivity, fully automated IT processes that avoid extra headcount, and secure, trackable internal and external collaboration.

SMS Engineering

Rodney Wilder

IT Manager