Considering a new way of working?
Many small and medium sized businesses (smb's) are re-evaluating their email service. Historically the de-facto email standard was an In-house Microsoft Exchange Service installed on a Windows server somewhere on your premises. Over the last few years, Hosted Microsoft Exchange services have emerged. This option warrants serious consideration especially by smb's.
Why Hosted Exchange you might ask? The answer's quite simple. It's safe to say that most users expect email to work all of the time. For smb's with a small or non-existent IT Dept, providing a service with 99.9% uptime is both difficult and expensive.
Anytime that there is a disruption in service, for example, the server going down, the IT Dept has to scramble to get everything back up and running. Downtime, for whatever reason, results in extremely unhappy users and stressed IT staff!
How does Hosting solve the problem?
A Hosted Exchange email solution with a reputable company offers an extremely reliable service that has the 99.9% uptime that users expect!
It also solves the other major headache that expanding companies face of scalability and how their IT Dept can handle that scaling. With a Hosted Exchange solution scalability is a non-issue, you simply add or remove users as the company expands or contracts.
The stress of keeping your system up and running becomes a thing of the past as the Hosting company takes over the responsibilty of maintaining the service, software updates and back-ups.
Know that your data is safe and secure!
There a number of companies in the market place offering email as a Software as a Service (SaaS), some are free and some are not. If it's a free service you need to be aware that free doesn't always mean free, the supplier has to make money somewhere!
Their revenue will come from ad clicks generated by your employees, do you really want your staff distracted by ads while they are trying to work?
There are also other major considerations to be taken into account. How secure will your data be? Where will these organisations be holding your data, in which country and under which legal system? Apart from you who can access your data? Is your data being backed up and can it be restored easily?
Using Hosted Exchange through a UK based company you can eliminate these issues and be certain that your data is safe, secure and fully supported.
March 2010