BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY WITH MICROSOFT ONLINE SERVICES

In today’s competitive global market, businesses need technology that enables flexibility and cost-effectively adds value to their organisation. Internet-based hosted services provide a way to meet these objectives.

They deliver feature-rich productivity tools to users while helping to relieve the burden of managing and maintaining business systems – freeing up IT departments to focus on initiatives that can deliver true competitive advantage.

Microsoft has a long history of developing and delivering innovative software and services for businesses and individuals.

Designed to meet your unique business needs, the software-plus-services vision from Microsoft brings together the best of flexible online services to give you ready access to the latest messaging and collaboration tools. Microsoft® Online Services offers a 99.9% service availability with service credits if service levels are not met (exclusions apply).

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Microsoft Online Services gives your business the powerful productivity capabilities of Microsoft® Exchange Online, Microsoft® SharePoint® Online, Microsoft® Office Communications Online, and Microsoft® Office Live Meeting – all hosted online and all up and running quickly and easily.

The suite of productivity tools help enable your workers to communicate and collaborate effectively, while enabling your IT team to focus on more business essential tasks. And with services hosted by Microsoft, you can have peace of mind knowing that experts are managing your IT.

Features and Benefits

Microsoft Online Services makes it easy for you to leverage and rapidly deploy familiar Microsoft server products as flexible services.
These hosted services – our Business Productivity Online Suite – include the following:

Exchange Online Provide employees with access to email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at anytime, on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices – with internet access while helping to protect against malware and spam. Exchange Online can be rapidly deployed, flexibly expanded, and is designed to be securely administered using a powerful yet easy-to-use Web-based console.

• 25GB mailbox storage available per user under a standard licence.
•  Email, shared calendar, shared tasks, and contacts.
•  Spam filtering and antivirus capabilities using Microsoft Forefront Online Security for Exchange.
•  Compatible with Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 and 2007.
•  Compatible with Windows Mobile® 6.0 devices and other Exchange ActiveSync® 12 devices.
• Low cost “deskless worker” offer under deskless work licences for workers who use messaging services on a limited basis.

SharePoint® Online Share documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks in a single location. Based on Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, SharePoint Online delivers rich collaboration capabilities that help enable team members to flexibly and efficiently collaborate, find organisational resources, search your intranet site, and manage content and workflow.

• Portal, collaboration, content management, site search, and forms capabilities.
•  Single location to share documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks.
•  Offline access to documents on the service from Outlook2/3.
•  Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across multiple lists and sites.
•  Blog site templates that support article posting, reader comments, and RSS feed generation.
•  Low cost “deskless worker” offer under deskless work licences for workers who use collaboration services on a limited basis

Office Live Meeting Connect with colleagues and customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events using only a PC with an Internet connection. Microsoft and third party Web conferencing services from Microsoft Office Live Meeting give your employees the power to collaborate wherever they are, to set up project meetings, brainstorm ideas, and collaborate on whiteboards without the cost and hassle of travel!

• Web client support for remote attendee flexibility.
•  Interactive application/desktop sharing and whiteboard tools.
• Active speaker video switching and multi-party video.
•  Rich media presentations, native video conferencing, high-fidelity recording, and Web Cam capabilities.

Office Communications Online Enable users to find and rapidly connect with the right person from the applications they use most.5 Office Communications Online provides streamlined access to rich presence and instant messaging capabilities that are centrally managed by IT and work with a range of Microsoft Office system programs.

• Instant messaging with text based chat using Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 client.
• Presence awareness enabling users to check another user’s availability on the network.
•  Presence information shared across Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook and SharePoint sites.
•  Users can connect directly to office communications online over the Internet without RAS or VPN connections.