Microsoft BPOS
Microsoft Online Services have been designed to migrate one or more business applications to the Cloud. The applications sit on Microsoft hosted servers and are delivered to businesses under a subscription services (Software as a Service, also known as SaaS).
The services and infrastructure is provisioned by Microsoft, so businesses don’t need to design, purchase and deploy their own infrastructure and software but merely migrate their present systems in either a modular fashion over time or in one single step.
What is Microsoft BPOS?
Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is a set of Microsoft hosted messaging and collaboration solutions that include Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Communications Online.
What are the BPOS Benefits?
- No large scale up front costs and minimal setup costs
- The service runs on a subscription so there’s a predictable monthly outgoing
- Business continuity
- No large scale infrastructure or software upgrades as that’s included
- 99.9% SLA for uptime from Microsoft
- Microsoft high level of security
- Flexible working capability for your employees
- Increase in productivity of the employees because of the collaboration benefits
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Microsoft Exchange Online
Microsoft Exchange Online is a hosted enterprise messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and provides the following:
- Up to 25GB mailbox storage per standard license
- Email, Shared Calendar, Shared Contacts, Shared Tasks
- Spam filtering and antivirus via Forefront Online Protection for Exchange
- Outlook web access
- Mobility access from phones including the Windows Phone, the iPhone, Android, Palm, Nokia and Blackberry devices
- Low cost deskless worker option, for roving access through a browser
- Business continuity through replication across Microsoft’s data centres
- Coexistence with in-house Exchange servers
- Administration portal
- Access via Outlook 2003 or above, as well as Outlook web access
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Microsoft SharePoint Online
Microsoft SharePoint Online is a secure, hosted solution for company collaboration and access to centralised resources. Employees can find company resources in a centralised intranet, manage the content, create custom team projects for collaboration and document sharing.
It is a hosted enterprised collaboration solution and is based on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and provides the following:
- Hosted portal, collaboration, content management, site search and forms facilities
- Single location to file and share documents, contacts, calendars and tasks
- Offline access
- Blog site templates
- Low cost deskless worker option for roving access through a browser
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Microsoft Live Meeting
Microsoft’s Live meeting is a hosted web conferencing solution. It enables users to conference online with each other, perform training sessions or demonstrations in webinar type format, meet up on line to discuss projects, share documents, collaborate on whiteboards, perform sales presentations to companies without having to travel to their offices. Live meeting provides the following:
- Stream presentations to all attendees online
- Share and record meeting notes online
- Record the meetings with voice and data interaction from all attendees
- Conduct large scale online presentation events, 1250 attendees at one time or 2,500 when you engage with Microsoft professional event services
- Train staff in multiple locations
- Make a bigger impact with voice, data, movie streaming live in your conference
- Connect remote participants and teams: The new 360-degree Panoramic Video of all conference room participants, delivered together with Microsoft® Roundtable device.
- Host Collaborative Meetings Quickly and Cost-Effectively
- Distribute handouts prior to and after presentations
- Enhanced security you can count on: Cybertrust and SAS70 certified data centres provide security enhanced content storage.
- Integrate with Microsoft® Active Directory: Leverage your existing identity infrastructure for a rapid and integrated deployment.
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Office Communications Online
Microsoft Office Communications online provides your business the capability to improve the speed of communication and real time collaboration. It gives you presence management, instant messaging (IM) and PC-to-PC audio and video calling. It enables your business the capability to become more agile where mission critical decisions have to be made. It gives you an understanding of who is available to communicate with and who may be able to contribute on impromptu decision making. Office Communications Online provides the following:
- Ability to display and detect presence availability of other users on the network
- Instant messaging over the Internet or a corporate network, with IM text encrypted
- Integration with Microsoft Office Outlook®, Microsoft Office Excel® and Microsoft Office Word for presence awareness and collaboration
- Presence integration with SharePoint sites
- Users can add distribution lists to their Contact Lists and IM with individuals or the entire list
- Person-to-person (1:1) audio and video inside a company LAN (between firewalls) environment
- Remote access to the service over the Internet
- Increased network security with the Intelligent Instant Message Filter program
- Sign In application installed on users’ computers to provide a single sign-in point
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