Business Productivity with Microsoft Online
Microsoft Business Productivity Online (BPOS) is an externally hosted business package, offering users web-based email, contacts and shared calendars, online conferencing and meeting facilities and intranet software, amongst other things, without the need for an in-house server or IT support.
Microsoft has agreed to offer Edinburgh Chamber members an introductory rate of just over £10 per user, per month, and a free 30-day trial is also available.
About BPOS
In today's competitive global market, businesses need technology that enables flexibility and adds value to their organisation cost-effectively. Hosted services can help relieve the burden of managing and maintaining business systems, freeing IT departments to focus on initiatives that can deliver true competitive advantage.
Designed to meet your unique business needs, this software-plus-services strategy brings together the best of rich on-premise applications and flexible, internet-based services, hosted externally, to give you ready access to software without costly deployment and maintenance overhead.
Microsoft Online Services gives your business the powerful productivity capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting hosted online - quickly, easily, and without the upfront costs of an on-premise deployment. The suite of productivity tools enables you to communicate and collaborate efficiently and effectively, while enabling your IT resources to focus on more business-critical tasks. And with services hosted by Microsoft, you have peace of mind knowing that experts are managing your IT and your services will be available when you need them.
Features and Benefits
Microsoft Online Services make it easy for you to leverage and rapidly deploy familiar Microsoft server products as flexible services for just £10.04 per person, per month. These hosted services include the following:
Exchange Online
Provide employees access to e-mail, calendar and contacts from virtually anywhere, at anytime, on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices - 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 simple remote Web-based console.
SharePoint Online
Share documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks through a single location. Based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Online delivers rich team collaboration capabilities that enable you to flexibly and efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search your intranet site, and manage content and workflow.
Office Live Meeting
Connect with colleagues and customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events using only a PC with an Internet connection. Hosted Web conferencing services from Microsoft Office Live Meeting provides your employees the power to collaborate wherever they are, set up project meetings, brainstorm ideas, and collaborate on whiteboards without the cost and hassle of travel.
Office Communications Online
Enable users to find and rapidly connect with the right person from the applications they use most. Office Communications Online provides streamlined access to rich presence and Instant Messaging capabilities that are centrally managed by IT and work seamlessly with a range of Microsoft Office system programs.
Further Information
Please visit the Microsoft Business Productivity Online website for further information.