Software as a Service (Saas)

TechSolvers are pleased to announce that they are now a Microsoft Online Services Reseller

The Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is now available from £6.71 per user per month. Hosted Exchange Email on its own from £3.35 per user per month.

Are you already paying for hosted Exchange email, or looking to upgrade to Exchange for the first time? Would you consider switching supplier if for the same price you also got document storage and management via Sharepoint, hosted web conferencing services such as real-time meetings, training sessions, and events via Office Live meeting plus instant messaging via Office Communications Online? If you are then BPOS could be exactly what you need.

What Is BPOS?
BPOS stands Business Productivity Online Suite; it is a subscription based service that provides user access to Microsoft's most common hosted server platforms.

 By purchasing BPOS on a subscription basis, you no longer have to worry about the server related costs and management overheads, of the products outlined below

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-the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite-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 easy-to-use Web-based console.

• Default 5-GB mailbox per each user; mailboxes can be configured up to 25 GB
• E-mail, shared calendar, shared tasks, and contacts
• Spam filtering and antivirus capabilities via Microsoft Forefront Online Security for Exchange
• Support for Microsoft Office Outlook®, Outlook Anywhere, and Outlook Web Access
• Support for Windows Mobile® 6.0 devices and other Exchange ActiveSync® 12 devices
• Low-cost "deskless worker" offer for workers who use limited PC and messaging services

If you are still unsure if Hosted Exchange would benifit your business we have written an article focused on the Top 10 Reasons for Using Hosted Exchange.

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 enable team members to flexibly and efficiently collaborate, find organizational 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 Outlook
• Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across multiple lists and sites
• Blog site templates that support article posting, reader comments, and RSS feeds
• Low-cost "deskless worker" offer for workers who use limited PC and collaboration services

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 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, multi-party video, and multi-party VoIP/ audio
• Rich media presentations, video conferencing and Web cam capabilities

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.

• Instant messaging with text based chat using Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 client
• Seamless presence awareness enabling users to check another user's availability online
• Presence information shared across Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook.
• Users can connect directly to the service over the Internet without RAS or VPN connections

All this can be yours for just £6.71 per user per month (or £3.35 for just hosted exchange email). To discuss this further, please give us a call on 01923 537 247, or let us call you.

Alternatively you can go straight ahead and sign up for a free BPOS trial allowing you to experience all of Microsofts Online Services for free for 30 days. Just click the Free Trial button below to get started.

Clicking this will take you to Microsoft’s website where you can sign up for the trial. You will need a Live Id but don’t panic if you have not got one, as signing up only takes a minute.

We would like to help you make the most of your trial, so please let us know if you need any help setting it up, or have questions about using any of the products.