Hosted Exchange Benefits

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
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:

	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.