Microsoft Online

When often asked what a business's mission critical application is, one of the workloads highlighted is messaging, how often has your messaging environment gone offline, how complicated is your Exchange Cluster? Exchange Online is rapidly deployed, grown on demand and is secure by design.

Microsoft Exchange Online is a hosted enterprise messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server

2007 and provides the following:

• Improved email security
• "From-anywhere" access to email for your employees
• Enhanced operational efficiency for your IT staff
• 5GB mailbox storage per standard license, configurable up to 25GB per mailbox

Exchange Online leverages our knowledge of Microsoft products, best practices developed with customers and partners and Microsoft's global infrastructure to deliver a world-class, mission-critical service.

The ability to drive value through the heart of any IT solution should be key to your business plans, collaboration tools have time and time again highlighted the ability to achieve massive return on investments through efficient working, reduced travel, simplified document management and enterprise search. But the costs associated with a truly enterprise wide collaboration strategy can often put a project on hold before it starts, why not get all the benefits of collaboration but without any of the headaches associated with an internal implementation?

Based upon SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint online provides a highly secure, central location where employees can collaborate with team members efficiently, find organizational resources, manage content and workflow and gain the business insight to make well-informed decisions. Employees can create and manage custom team and project focused intranet sites for collaboration and document sharing.

Being able to respond to customer demands within a timely fashion with the right information will reduced customer churn, which increase brand loyalty – FACT. Being able to allow organizations to interact with your team in a way they want to interact will improve customer loyalty. A key technology for businesses now is Instant Messaging and presence and what better way to achieve a joined up collaboration piece than Office Communications Server.

Microsoft Office Communications Online delivers robust instant messaging (IM) and presence functionality that enables real-time person-to-person communication via text, voice and video, across an organization. Through presence awareness, workers can quickly detect a colleague's availability for a time-sensitive consult or business-critical decisionand then connect rapidly using a reliable, security-enhanced IM solution.

Office Live Meeting is a web conference technology that allows businesses to deliver one to one meetings instantly, or multiple participant webinars and meetings.

Live Meeting when coupled with web camera technology or Microsoft Roundtable appliances really provide a personal meeting even when you are miles apart.

Connect with your colleagues and engage your customers through real-time meetings, training sessions and events.

Features include:

• Web client support for remote attendee flexibility
• Interactive application/desktop sharing and whiteboard tools
• Active speaker video switching, multi-party video and multi-party VoIP audio
• Rich-media presentations, native video conferencing, high-fidelity recording and webcam capabilities
• Training and event management with event and class registration and virtual breakout rooms.