Small and Mid-size Businesses go BIG…with Hosted Messaging and Collaboration!
Businesses are always looking for ways to match if not heavily compete with their counterparts, all at a cheaper price. Whether you are a small or medium-size (SMB) or even a large business, email is considered as an essential communication tool that can drive business efficiency but often becomes very expensive to maintain in-house. As your business grows, so will your demand for email together with the costs involved.
SMB’s are now looking more towards a solution that will still provide their business with rich email services, mobile device support and collaboration technologies, without the high-end costs of managing this all in-house. Businesses want to free themselves from the burdens and headaches of deploying intricate messaging systems in-house so that they can concentrate on investing the monies to support their key revenue drivers.
Proximitum provide and support the latest release of Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) version 4.0 - available from April 2007. We find that more and more businesses are taking advantage of turning towards our services to host either a basic email only service right through to a complete Microsoft Outlook client that is delivered across the internet through firewalls and a routing infrastructure.
Jason Davenport, Managing Director of Davenport Enterprises said in a recent interview, “With such a diversified business, we were managing literally hundreds and hundreds of emails a day across all our business sectors – it was soon time for us to seek an alternative to controlling this in-house and we soon recognised Proximitum as being our answer”.
HMC provides a platform for enterprise email, email mobility, unified communications, web access, Windows Live Messaging and Windows SharePoint 3.0 - all of which improve communications, information sharing and work productivity, at a fraction of the costs of managing this internally.
Jason commented, “Our hosted email service (HMC) means that all our employees benefit from access to emails, voice mail, calendars and their contacts whether or not they are at the office. We get to stay efficient with our customers, suppliers and staff allowing us to effectively go-to-market a lot quicker than our competitors through productive staffing and the best possible user experience – Proximitum provide this solution all at a pay-as-you-go cost!”
Incorporating SharePoint Services 3.0 with HMC 4.0 provides access to collaboration and document management tools that allow users to share and manage work documents across a web based portal. The latest version of HMC provides over 40 pre-built application templates to address real business needs including holiday request forms, business competitor analysis tools, employee activities site, employee training and learning materials and sales and marketing planning tools.
The HMC solution uses the Exchange Server 2007 and is recognised as the industry’s leading platform for email, calendaring and unified messaging. The Exchange Server 2007 protects the business with built-in technologies that provide guaranteed availability, spam reduction, virus prevention and the day-to-day business compliance obligations.
“Hosted email and collaboration means that we get to save on the high costs of managing this in-house – that’s money we can put directly back into our main business!” says Jason.
Microsoft HMC 4.0 provides big business benefits such as costs and risk reduction, productive workforce, encouraged collaborative teamwork and remote user access.
Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.0 is now available from proximitum as a solution to all businesses across all industry sectors. For more information, please contact Proximitum Ltd or visit the Microsoft site at http://www.microsoft.com/hostedmessaging