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Plukon offers fresh and deep-frozen poultry, conveni- ence foods and poultry sausages which are delivered to retail companies, bulk consumers and catering trade. In cooperation with the ISGUS subsidiary in Osnabrück, Plukon has implemented ZEUS® Time & Attendance and Access Control as Software as a Service (SaaS) for 3.000 employees within 4 of its 5 German subsidiaries in the past year. In doing so, Plukon has relocated the backup, update and maintenance of its data to the ISGUS data centre in the ISGUS headquarter in Villingen-Schwen- ningen, Germany. For Plukon, ZEUS® is not unknown to them. At the Friki Storkow site, they have used the ISGUS ZEUS® system since 2005. ISGUS sales representative Bastian Peucker had always wanted to gain the interest of the Plukon site in Visbek to have a ZEUS® system; Stefan Berning, Network Manager at Plukon, already knew of the ZEUS® solution from the installation in Friki Storkow and was looking for an outsourceable Time & Attendance and Ac- cess Control software to replace the outdated software installed in Visbek. Bastian Peucker cold called Plukon and that was the beginning of the successful business relationship between ISGUS and Plukon. Economical Outsourcing Of course, Plukon investigated ISGUS competitors, but ISGUS was the only one offering Software as a Service as a pre-requisite of Plukon‘s requirements: The customer no longer hosts the software solution in its own IT, but in the ISGUS Cloud. So they no longer need to look after computing environment, database licenses and opera- ting systems. Also the full technical administration is part of the SaaS services. This ensures more transparen- cy in the IT budget and improves the cost structure. Simultaneously Plukon benefits from the data availabili- ty and high data security and can therefore fully concen- trate on its core business. „Plukon in general is a very cloud orientated business. The Time & Attendance soft- ware is not the first product that we have outsourced. SaaS provides us with a clear cost overview and what costs to expect. You don’t need to reserve any resour- ces for a later growth. Plus, the risk of a system failure is passed on and we don’t need to look for backups or server maintenances for administration, installation etc. Furthermore, all T&A data is centrally accessible from each Plukon location“, summarises Stefan Berning. Some of the reasons that led to the decision for the The Dutch Plukon Food Group is one of the largest poultry processors in Europe with 8.5 Mio butchered chickens per week. The Plukon Food Group consists of 18 subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Poland with 6.600 employees. ECONOMICAL OUTSOURCING IN THE ISGUS CLOUD 4