Overview STOBAG develops and produces durable sun and weather protection systems. Over 700 em- ployees 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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