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Outsourcing Exchange
Imagine all your e-mails, calendar, contacts and tasks being constantly up to date and available to you all the time. Imagine sending or receiving an e-mail, updating your calendar or contact list in your Blackberry or iPhone and those changes being reflected in your computer's Outlook or Entourage applications immediately and viceversa. Imagine the scenario where you don't have your laptop or handheld with you but you still can access your e-mail, calendar and contacts from any computer with Internet access via a secure web site, make changes and those changes automatically reflected in your own computer and handheld. Imagine your business partner or assistant (with your authorization) accessing your calendar or contacts in his/her computer in say, San Francisco, making changes (with your authorization) and those changes being available to you within seconds in your Blackberry or iPhone, wherevever you are in the world. You can do all that and more with Microsoft Exchange.
Microsoft Exchange is the world's most popular business messaging platform, with almost 60% of the market. It boosts company productivity through advanced features like always-synched email, files, calendars and contacts, mobile access on devices such as the Blackberry or iPhone, 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 businesses, the cost of running an in-house Microsoft Exchange server is very expensive. Upfront costs can exceed $10,000 plus staff time to maintain the server. This is why managed Exchange hosting or Exchange outsourcing makes sense for smaller businesses. Exchange server outsourcing means that a specialist IT company runs, updates and maintains the technology and charges businesses a small monthly fee to outsource the Exchange server. Exchange email outsourcing allows businesses to enjoy the same enterprise-strength IT that Fortune 500 companies have but at a price that it is very
Outsourcing Microsoft Exchange is becoming more and more popular as small businesses are realizing the benefits of a managed Exchange server. Exchange email outsourcing allows IT staff to worry about your business instead of your email. Also, through Exchange server outsourcing, companies can rest assured that their email data is properly backed up, safe and secure.
Through a managed Exchange server, the smallest companies can benefit from powerful Business Email and collaboration for a low monthly fee starting at $35/month for three e-mail inboxes. The better than 99% uptime guarantee from specialist IT companies makes outsourcing Microsoft Exchange from Intermedia a great choice for small companies that want big business IT.
Last update: June 9, 2008
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