Microsoft Exchange Online
he advantages of Microsoft Exchange are clear. When you choose Exchange, you get the world’s most advanced and widely used system for email, calendars and contacts. Exchange allows you to have access to your information from anywhere on any device, as well as letting your assistants and co-workers have access to your mail, contacts and calendars so that they can respond on your behalf, see when you’re free and book meetings and meeting rooms, as well as look up your mums details so they can send her a card for you on Mother’s Day.
Voyager’s solution for Exchange uses the MICROSOFT EXCHANGE ONLINE service, which is a service built, hosted, and backed up by the might of Microsoft themselves, and can be supported and implemented by us if required. The beauty of Exchange Online, is that there is no need for you to buy and hardware, no need for an IT person other than someone with some basic understanding of email, and users can be added and deleted from a control panel. You pay Microsoft directly for the service, and Voyager for support and implementation (if required).
The Exchange Online service can’t be beat for price and features performance – let’s see how it stacks up:
- The cost is just NZ$8.62 per user per month (approx US$5)
- You get a MASSIVE 25GB mailbox per user
- Antivirus and Spam filtering is INCLUDED and constantly updated by MS
- Access your email, contacts and calender from anywhere on any device
- Microsoft guarantees a 99.9% uptime on the service
- You still have access to your email, contacts and calendars offline through Outlook etc
- Uses the same tools you are used to now (Outlook, your mobile phone etc)
- Telephone and Online support
- There is NO hardware to purchase or maintain, saving on capex
- The connection to the MS servers is encrypted and highly secure
- Simple deployment and rollout
- FREE 30 day trial of the service for up to 20 users
TRIAL MICROSOFT EXCHANGE ONLINE FREE FOR 30 DAYS NOW
In the past, most companies opted for a DEDICATED Exchanger server in their place of business. This meant buying a server, a backup power system, the software required, as well as paying an IT ‘geek’ to come in and set it all up, and come back every time the sever got a virus, ran out of space, or a new employee joined or left the organization. Even the smallest dedicated Exchange server setup often cost $10,000 or more per year to set up, and then several thousand a year to maintain. We have seen examples of small businesses with 5 or so staff who’s costs for running Exchange have literally ended up in the hundreds of dollars per month per employee – Just for email! And perhaps have not even had very good spam and virus protection despite the costs.