Phil Goddard, service manager of Groupe Brandt had a requirement to fax each job out to the 80 engineers located around the country. This was done manually and employed somebody for several hours per day.

Phil looked at Unix fax server solutions as he was running Sage CS3 and FSMS on their HP SCO server. When he found that an "Off the peg" solution would cost around £10K he asked us to see if we could solve his problem.

We built Phil a Linux server and installed the Hylafax fax server software onto it. By making some small changes to an FSMS report to allow it to parse the engineers fax numbers to the fax server, we were able, with the use of a couple of scripts, to automate the entire process. Phil was pleased with the £2K price tag and didn't expect to get Windows desktop faxing thrown in too!

This system transmits some 200 faxes per day without placing any extra load on the SCO server.