Microsoft BPOS
As a Microsoft Gold Partner and an early adopter of key technologies that deliver tangible savings to our clients Dataplex are pleased to announce that we are one of the few key partners in the UK able to offer Microsoft Cloud Services and Software as a Service (SaaS) through the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).
After a extremely successful roll out across the US, Microsoft have made this technology available within the UK and you leverage Dataplex skills in this area to migrate and host your collaboration requirements online, with 24x7 availability with no internal infrastructure to worry about.
So if you are considering an upgrade to your messaging environment, your collaboration environment or looking to decrease your capital and operational costs associated with a new deployment for a fixed monthly cost, you really should consider BPOS.
So what is Microsoft BPOS?
Microsoft BPOS is in essence Microsoft Enterprise services hosted in the cloud and delivered out through a monthly subscription basis as a SaaS model. Microsoft manages, maintains and delivers the services on your behalf.
The pricing for this service is unbeatable and provides end users with key enterprise class services which are standardised in delivery and customisable by the end user which is how Microsoft can ensure uptime and availability.
BPOS is a suite of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft, which provides high availability, granular security and vastly reduced operational costs normally associated with management.
The enterprise services that make up BPOS are:
Exchange Online
SharePoint Online
Office Communications Online
Office Live Meeting.
When coupled together provide a cohesive collaboration architecture that delivers enterprise class:
Messaging and calendaring
Instant messaging
Document management
Shared Workspaces
Presence
Web Conferencing.
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Exchange 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 licence, 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.
Want to know more, download Exchange Online Datasheets:
Exchange Online Standard
Exchange Online Dedicated
SharePoint Online
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 organisational 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.
Download the SharePoint Online Datasheet:
SharePoint Online Standard
SharePoint Online Dedicated.
Office Communications Online
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 organisations 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 organisation. Through presence awareness, workers can quickly detect a colleague's availability for a time-sensitive consult or business-critical decision—and then connect rapidly using a reliable, security-enhanced IM solution.
Download Office Communications Online Datasheets:
Office Communications Online Standard
Office Communications Online Dedicated
Office Live Meeting
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.
Download Office Live Meeting Datasheet.
Microsoft Online Services benefits include:
Latest Business Productivity Capabilities
Discover the latest in business-class e-mail, Web conferencing, instant messaging, document collaboration and workflow
Get the benefit of the latest messaging and collaboration features, designed to work together seamlessly
Build your own solution with individual services or purchase as an integrated suite
Ease of Use
Your end users have a unified experience to access all of the hosted services you're using
Administrators only have one place to go to manage subscriptions and to configure all Online Services
End users have the ability to securely access the service anywhere without the need for a VPN connection and through a wide
selection of mobile devices
Privacy & Rapid Disaster Recovery
Secure Internet protocols including HTTPS and HTTP over SSL to access your services
Redundant network architecture capable of disaster recovery
In the event of datacenter connectivity issues, services switch over to a backup datacenter
Greater Flexibility
Online offerings integrate with on-premises servers and applications so that organizations can run some applications internally and others as hosted services
Leverages tools such as Active Directory synchronization so you can make online, on-premises, or hybrid deployment choices by service, user roles, and geography to meet organizational needs best
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