AvePoint Customer Anglo American Featured in Microsoft® Case Study

AvePoint Customer Anglo American Featured in Microsoft® Case Study Anglo American synchronised Microsoft SharePoint data across three continents and more than 20,000 end-users with DocAve, increasing company-wide adoption of the SharePoint platform Johannesburg, South Africa — March 1, 2011 — AvePoint, a proven leader in providing infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, today announced its customer – global mining giant Anglo American – has been featured in a Microsoft case study. Entitled ―Anglo American Seamlessly Synchronises SharePoint Content Worldwide‖, the case study references the successful, real-time and scheduled synchronisation of approximately 600 gigabytes of data among its geo-distributed SharePoint environments in Africa, Australia, and South America with DocAve. ―We are excited that Microsoft has decided to publish our work at Anglo American as an official case study. Through the use of our leading replication technology, which falls within our DocAve platform, Anglo American is able to seamlessly replicate vital content and data across its geo-distributed SharePoint environments‖, said Garth Luke, Vice President of Sales for AvePoint. ―Anglo American is a perfect example of how companies can adopt Microsoft SharePoint to enhance the way they conduct daily business and increase productivity across their enterprises without being constrained by distributed physical locations, network latency, and bandwidth constraints.‖ AvePoint's flagship solution, the DocAve Software Platform, is a comprehensive, truly integrated SharePoint infrastructure management solution that unleashes the platform’s full potential. With a unified, browser-based user interface and a fully distributed architecture, DocAve delivers solutions for organisations utilising SharePoint for enterprise content management, web content management, greater platform collaboration and adoption, hybrid management, and infrastructure management.

To learn more about Anglo American’s use of DocAve to increase the adoption of SharePoint throughout its enterprise, visit http://www.microsoft.com/southafrica/casestudies/manu_anglo.mspx. For more examples of AvePoint customer success stories, visit http://au.avepoint.com/resources/case-studies. About AvePoint AvePoint is a global technology company and proven software leader headquartered in the United States. Since its founding in 2001, AvePoint has become the world’s largest provider of infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Propelled by the world’s largest SharePoint-exclusive research & development team, AvePoint is the premier provider for EPG, SMB, Mid-Market and Government organisations demanding the most powerful and flexible infrastructure management solutions for their SharePoint environments and assets. AvePoint’s award-winning DocAve Software Platform is recognised as the industry standard for comprehensive, scalable, and truly integrated SharePoint backup and recovery, administration, replication, migration, archiving, deployment management, reporting, storage optimisation, and content lifecycle management solutions. AvePoint is headquartered and maintains its principle engineering centre in Jersey City, NJ, with wholly owned sales and engineering centres in the USA - San Jose, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Washington DC, Houston, Boston; Ontario, Canada; Johannesburg, South Africa; Melbourne, Australia; London, United Kingdom; Munich, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; and China - Beijing, Changchun, Dalian. AvePoint’s global team, fortified by an expansive network of certified partners, helps more than 8,000 enterprise customers – including many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies – to protect, manage, optimise, and integrate their mission-critical SharePoint environments. AvePoint is a Depth Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA provider. AvePoint Media Contact:

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