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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>thinkfree.com &gt; Success &amp; Story</title><link>http://www.thinkfree.com</link><description>thinkfree.com</description><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2008 ThinkFree, Corp. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[[08.Mar.13] No1 Portal Naver's approach, ThinkFree Conversion Server]]></title><link>http://help.thinkfree.com/views/jsp/user/help_center/sutuList.jsp?seq=6&amp;type=S</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:26:15 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<p align="center"><img height="55" alt="" width="257" src="/uploads/webeditor/Image/20080314_024623_076_014.jpg" /></p>
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<p><font color="#000000">&nbsp;<strong><span style="color: black"><font size="2">Company profile :&nbsp;</font></span></strong></font><strong><span style="color: black"><br />
<br />
</span></strong><font color="#000000"><span style="color: black"><font size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="color: black"><font size="2">NHN Corporation&rsquo;s flagship product, Naver, is South Korea&rsquo;s largest and most popular web portal&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; and internet search engine.<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="color: black"><font size="2">According to Reuters, Naver currently enjoys a 75% search market share.<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font><font color="#000000" size="2"><span style="color: black">With over 26 million registered users, Naver.com is highly trafficked with an average of 1.5 million Visitors&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and 700 million page views a day.</span></font></p>
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<p>&nbsp;<strong><span style="color: black"><font color="#000000" size="2">Challenge :</font></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black"><br />
</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black"><br />
</span><font color="#000000"><span style="color: black"><font size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="color: black"><font size="2">Improve the user web mail experience by providing a seamless way to view&nbsp;MS Office document<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; attachments.<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="color: black"><font size="2">Required a highly scalable, high performance solution that produced superior quality web-friendly output.<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="color: black"><font size="2">In order to keep high user satisfaction levels, a sub 3 second threshold was chosen for&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the conversion time limit.<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><font size="2"><span style="color: black">due to the importance of safeguarding user privacy, document security was a significant concern.</span></font></font></p>
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<div style="word-break: keep-all; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric" align="left"><strong><span style="color: black"><font color="#000000" size="2">Solutions :</font></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black"><br />
</span></strong><span style="color: black"><br />
<font color="#000000" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black"><font color="#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></span><span style="color: black"><font color="#000000" size="2">Naver decided to use the hosted ThinkFree Conversion server solution to meet their demand for a fast MS<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; office document convertor without sacrificing output quality.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ThinkFree Conversion server is based on the ThinkFree Viewer rendering technology that produces&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; output that is unsurpassed in quality.</font></span><font color="#000000"><span style="color: black"><font size="2">&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="color: black"><font size="2">To meet performance demands, Naver&rsquo;s load balancing scheme utilized a L4 switch to distribute the<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; workload over a Conversion server farm.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As a result, the sub 3 second response time was easily&nbsp;attained by the combination of the high<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; performance conversion servers and the scalable network architecture.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;</font></span><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font><font color="#000000" size="2"><span style="color: black">Naver also needed to satisfy strict security requirements.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They accomplished this by extending the Conversion server platform with the addition of&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACL(access control list) servers. </span></font></div>
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<div style="word-break: keep-all; line-height: 135%; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2"><strong><span style="color: black">Who need ThinkFree Conversion Server ?&nbsp;</span></strong></font></div>
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<div style="word-break: keep-all; line-height: 135%; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2"><span style="color: black; line-height: 135%">&bull; Ideal for enterprise, portal, ISP, and other dashboard environments.<br />
&bull; Serves as a Microsoft Office complement or alternative.<br />
&bull; Excellent for users of other systems that need to view Office documents.</span></font></div>
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<div style="layout-grid-mode: char; word-break: keep-all; line-height: 12pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric" align="left"><span style="color: black"><font color="#000000" size="2">For more information about ThinkFree Server, please contact to tfserver</font><a href="mailto:tfserver@thinkfree.com"><span style="color: black"><font color="#000000" size="2">@thinkfree.com</font></span></a></span></div>
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<div><strong><font size="2">Company profile : </font></strong></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt"><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">&bull;&nbsp;A fortune 500 public company (symbol NYSE: R) specializes in commercial truck rental, leasing and supply chain solutions with more than 200 field locations in the US.</font></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt"><span><font face="Verdana" size="2">&bull;&nbsp;Shop and rental departments previously have used emulation terminals to interface with the IBM AS400 legacy system for documentation.</font></span></div>
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<p><strong><font size="2">Challenge :</font></strong></p>
<p><span><font size="2"><font face="Verdana">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &bull;&nbsp;Needed a cost effective office productivity solution to augment current terminal environments.<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></font></span><span><font color="#555555" size="2"><font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000">&bull;&nbsp;Required simple yet robust feature to create and handle documents for multiple users every day.<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font><font color="#000000">&bull;&nbsp;Desired for improvement in field office productivity resulting from less errors and redundant documentation.<br />
</font></font></font></span><span><font color="#555555" size="2"><font face="Verdana">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font color="#000000">&bull;&nbsp;Sought after an ability to easily implement, maintain and monitor application environment resulting in reduced TCO and a centralized manageability for transparent IT asset management.</font></font><br />
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<div><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2">Solutions :</font></strong></div>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000"><span style="color: rgb(85,85,85); line-height: 135%"><font size="2">&bull;</font><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></font><span style="color: rgb(85,85,85); line-height: 135%"><font color="#000000" size="2">ThinkFree Server can be accessed from Ryder&rsquo;s shop and rental counter PCs (over 2,000 PCs in total).</font></span></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(85,85,85); line-height: 135%"><font size="2">&bull;</font><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="color: rgb(85,85,85); line-height: 135%"><font color="#000000" size="2">Ryder was able to provide MS Office functionality to all Shop and Rental users at a fraction of the price.</font></span></font></font></p>
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<div style="line-height: 12pt"><font size="2">For more information about ThinkFree Server, please contact to tfserver<a href="mailto:tfserver@thinkfree.com"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000ff">@thinkfree.com</font></a></font></div>
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