StarOffice benefits Loyola's Office Automation Plans
Leading Philippines Financial Services Company significantly reduces
software expenses
Organization
Industry
- Financial Related Services
Configuration
- StarOffice5.2 Productivity Suite
- PCs with Windows operating systems
Challenges
- Office automation with least amount of software investment
- Need for compatibility with MS Office oMulti-platform support
Results
- Cost savings of more than PHP902,000.00 (US$17, 329) in purchasing licenses
- Met objectives
of reducing cost in software investment while achieving office-automation
goals.
Loyola Plans, Inc, a leading financial related services company
in Philippines, wanted to use a basic office tool for word processing
and spreadsheet applications for its 261 employees. It chose StarOffice
as a means to reduce unnecessary expenses and to meet budget constraints.
The StarOffice implementation saved the company PHP902,000.00 (US$17,
329) in software costs.
StarOffice: Solution to solve Budget constraints
Loyola Plans was incorporated in 1968 by the late Sen. Gil Puyat
Sr and is currently among Philippine's top investment firms. It
offers financial related services like time plans, education plans,
pension plans and memorial services. After three decades, Loyola
has established a reputation of service excellence and integrity,
with a market base of more than one million Filipinos.
Like many
companies, Loyola realized the importance of technology and office
automation. However, it wanted to do so at the least amount of expenses.
It only had a limited budget as funds were channeled to projects
that directly contributed to the company's bottomline.
The company
evaluated StarOffice and found it attractive because there are no
licensing fees involved. After a thorough evaluation of the StarOffice's
utilities, features and functions, it decided to deploy StarOffice
as the basic tool for all its wordprocessing and spreadsheet needs.
StarOffice's multi-platform availability and its ability to co-exist
with Microsoft applications was an attractive proposition to Loyola.
"Sun's StarOffice is by far the only software that encompasses the
qualities of being scalable, ubiquitous and open to multiple platforms.
It is scalable because a company can have Star Office installed
in some computers and MS Office in others," said Mr. John Michael
S. Lagumbay, Assistant Vice President Inter/Intra Corporate Marketing,
Loyola Plans, Inc. "StarOffice is very dominant in our company because
it can open files created and saved using MS office formats regardless
of product version (2000 and below). "
The StarOffice deployment
was followed by training of Loyola employees. The three major StarOffice
applications used are StarWriter, StarCalc and StarImpress which
covers word processing, spreadsheets and presentations respectively.
StarOffice met Loyola's objectives of reducing costs in software
expenses. Loyola estimates that it saved PHP902,000.00 (US$17, 329)
in costs. More than one-third of the company's PCs now use StarOffice.
"StarOffice is ubiquitous because it can be downloaded over the
Internet. So a company's operation need not be paralyzed simply
because they cannot afford to invest in expensive user licenses.
It can also run on Linux or Solaris Operating System thus eliminating
the necessity for a Windows OS." said Mr. Lagumbay.
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