Need to improve communication and collaboration without draining IT resources? Dream of a truly flexible platform to fit your IT needs? Wish you could have it for a predictable, low monthly cost and reduced capital expenditure? The Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite can help.
The Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft. It can help:
- Decrease your infrastructure spending while increasing communication capabilities.
- Connect your people by giving them an intuitive and affordable way to share information, files, business processes, calendars, instant messages, and more.
- Scale your business with a click. The flexibility of hosted cloud computing means that you can deploy the solutions you need, when you need them.
Choosing Microsoft Online Services allows you to combine the power of rich desktop-based applications with the flexibility of fully-hosted Internet services. That gives your users an all-in-one integrated experience on the same rich clients your users already know with a consistent look and feel from virtually any device, in almost any location.
Productivity
- Business-class e-mail, Web conferencing, instant messaging, document collaboration and workflow all designed to work together seamlessly.
- A single administrative panel enables simple and centralized provisioning and management of new and existing users
- End users can securely access the service virtually anywhere without the need for a VPN connection and through a wide selection of mobile devices
Greater flexibility
- Build your own solution with individual services or purchase as an integrated suite
- Choose to run some applications on-premises, or choose Online Services hosted and managed by Microsoft or Microsoft Partners
- Leverage 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
- Adjust your deployment model dynamically as your business needs shift and grow
Access Anywhere
- Easily extend new capabilities to your organization without straining internal resources
- Expand your IT capacity by adding new services without investing in the development of new skills or deploying new hardware and software
- Free your valuable IT resources from routine management tasks to focus on core business initiatives that can deliver a true competitive advantage
- securely reach the information they need – including email, documents, contacts, and calendars – in the office or on the go. That means having a virtual office, virtually anywhere.
Security & Reliability
- 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
- Microsoft Online Services run on a global network of data centers protected by multiple layers of security and operational best practices
- Financially-backed, guaranteed 99.9% uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Always-up-to-date antivirus and anti-spam solutions to protect email
- Safeguarded data with geo-redundant, enterprise-grade reliability and disaster recovery with multiple datacenters and automatic failovers
- Best-of-breed data centers with SAS 70 and ISO 27001 certification