Built-in Protection
Exchange Server 2007 offers built-in protective technologies to keep your business moving, reduce spam and viruses, enable confidential communications, and help your company to be compliant.
- Keeps communication alive and e-mail flowing with enterprise-class availability and reliability
- Helps safeguard users and the organization’s valuable data from the harmful effects of spam and viruses
- Provides trusted communications within the organization automatically and without added cost or complexity
- Simplifies regulatory compliance in a way that supports the different needs of employees, compliance managers, and messaging administrators
Anywhere Access
With Exchange Server 2007, employees get anywhere access* to their e-mail, voice mail, calendars, and contacts from a variety of clients and devices.
- Increases the productivity of today’s employees who require the ability to respond quickly at home, work, or on the go
- Offers employees a single inbox to access all of their important communications—including voice mail, fax, and e-mail—while avoiding the cost and effort of maintaining separate systems
- Delivers a fast, seamless, and familiar Microsoft Office Outlook experience across different devices and clients with no requirement for extra software or services outside of an Internet or basic phone connection
- Improves collaboration and productivity by making it easier to find and share data, documents, and schedules from anywhere
Easy to manage, packed with features
Small to medium companies are starting to see clear advantages of hosted application delivery for software solutions like Microsoft Exchange. Even large corporations recognize the benefits of outsourcing. According to Radicati Group research, "40% of all corporate e-mail boxes are currently delivered as an outsourced service, and this percentage is expected to grow to over 55% by 2006."*
The financial investment and overhead of owning and maintaining servers and software applications in-house is substantial. By outsourcing, SMB companies can now reap the benefits that up to a just few years ago were reserved for large corporations, plus added advantages:
- Low cost-of-ownership and cost predictability
- Immediate deployment
- Scale up or down as needed, with no risk
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- Anytime, anywhere access to information
- Business-class messaging and collaboration
- Secure and reliable performance for the highest productivity
Small and medium businesses now recognize the following facts:
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SMB’s In-house Implementation |
Outsourced Solution |
| Financial
Investment |
Large financial
investment, often thousands of dollars, for
hardware, software licenses, IT resources and
more. Unpredictable maintenance expenses. |
Initial costs are
minimal. No need to purchase hardware
or software; no need for added IT personnel.
Ongoing fees are low, predictable and easy to
budget. |
| IT Resources |
Requires
dedicated IT resources.
Managing a typical e-mail system for a 100
person company takes 85% of a senior
technician's time. |
No dedicated IT
resources required. User maintenance
can be performed by a non-technical person. All
system management is performed by the provider. |
| Deployment |
Average 30 days
to deploy an in-house messaging and
collaboration solution with dedicated staff.
|
Get started in minutes
with shared environment, a few days more for a
dedicated solution using your own domain. |
| Reliability and
Maintenance |
Lack of
redundancy and bandwidth, poor administration,
delay in upgrades - any of these can cause
security and performance issues. Server crashing
and e-mail interruptions cause business delays
and loss of productivity. |
Updates performed in
timely manner by trained experts.
Quality of service is guaranteed by SLA (99.99%
uptime) and 24x7 technical support. Back up is
provided with hosted service. |
| Security,
Maintenance and Upgrades |
Constant
vigilance required to combat viruses and SPAM.
Delay in upgrades. Costly, complex security
solutions. |
Security and mobility
services are available on demand.
Basic features included with service; advanced
features available at low cost. |
