Hosted Exchange 2007

Overview

Overview

Microsoft Exchange is the industry's leading platform for e-mail, calendaring, and unified messaging. The most recent release, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, is closely aligned with the Microsoft Office 2007 wave of products, which together deliver a best-in-class enterprise messaging and collaboration solution-however Microsoft Office 2007 products are not necessary to realize the core benefits of Microsoft Exchange. At a glance, some of those benefits include:

• Keeping communication alive and e-mail flowing with enterprise-class availability and reliability.
• Helping safeguard users and the organization's valuable data from the harmful-and continuously increasing-effects of spam and viruses.
• Providing trusted communications within the organization automatically, without added cost or complexity; seamless integration.
• Simplifying regulatory compliance in a way that supports the different needs of employees, compliance managers, and messaging administrators.
• Increasing the productivity of today's employees who require the ability to respond quickly at home, work, or in the field.
• Offering 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 disparate systems.
• Delivering a fast, seamless, and familiar Outlook experience across different devices and clients with no requirement for extra software or services outside of an Internet or basic phone connection.
• Improving group collaboration and productivity by making it easier to find and share data, documents, and schedules from anywhere.

Benefits

What are the benefits of hosted Exchange?

Microsoft Exchange has proven to be the world's most popular business messaging platform, with an estimated 34% installed base market share; over 10% more than its nearest competitor (according to a 2005 study by The Radicati Group).

It boosts company productivity through advanced features like always-synced email, files, calendars and contacts; mobile access on devices such as the BlackBerry, Treo or Motorola Q; advanced Web-mail; shared calendars that let employees see colleagues' availability to schedule or rearrange meetings, book conference rooms and plan projects; shared task lists that allow 'to do' lists to be created and assigned, then shared with team members; and shared contacts which guarantee that customers' contact details will never be lost or misplaced.

Unfortunately, for most small and midsize businesses (SMBs), the cost of running an MS Exchange server 'in-house' is simply too much. Up-front costs can exceed $10,000-plus staff time to maintain the server. This is why hosted Exchange makes sense for smaller businesses.  This solution also works well for those businesses who prefer not to have high capital expenditures in technology.

Exchange server hosting means that a specialist IT company runs the technology and charges businesses a small monthly fee to use it. This allows them to enjoy the same enterprise-strength IT that Fortune 500 companies have, but at a price they can afford.

Features

Listed below are the benefits that you can receive when you sign up to our Hosted Exchange services.  The features listed under optional services are an additional charge.

Basic Hosted Exchange Features:

• Exchange 2007
• Unlimited Mailbox Size
• Remote, Centralized Storage
• Centralized Contacts & Calendar
• Free Outlook 2007 for each Exchange Hosting user ($109 value per mailbox/client)
• Unlimited Aliases
• Unlimited Distribution Lists
• Unlimited number of Public Folders (1GB of Storage)
• 50MB Maximum Attachment Size

Security & Mobility Features

• Basic Spam Protection
• Secure Connection (HTTPS and Outlook Anywhere)
• Secure Outlook Web Access (OWA)
• ActiveSync Wireless Device Synchronization (supporting Push technology)

Network & Reliability Features

• Full Daily Tape Backup (30-day deleted items retention)
• 24x7 Server and Network Monitoring
• 99.9% Committed Uptime

Optional Services

• Advanced Email Security including Anti-Spam & Anti-Virus protection
• Blackberry Mobile Service

Exchange vs.POP

Exchange vs. POP:

POP3 (Post Office Protocol) provides a basic solution for individual users, with no inherent functionality for dynamically sharing information; it is inexpensive and best suited for non-mission-critical communication. Alternatively, Exchange provides users the ability to collaborate through a comprehensive, integrated system, with collaborative features that give your business a competitive advantage over standard POP3.