Overview STOBAG develops and produces durable sun and weather protection systems. Over 700 employees produce more than 150,000 awnings every year and sell them worldwide through specialist dealers. Challenge The STOBAG IT infrastructure supports be- tween 500 and 700 users worldwide, many of whom are mobile workers. As STOBAG sys- tems did not support file synchronization be - tween the in-house file-servers and end user devices, many users struggled to share their files with customers and suppliers, and started using cloud-based file share solutions, such as Dropbox or Google Drive. This led to a loss of data control, as Mr. Adrian Beck, IT Support and Systems Specialist at STOBAG, explains: “We couldn’t track where data was stored; whether it was kept up-to- date and with

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