If you are a small- to medium-sized business with up to 75 PCs, the days of buying and operating your own server on-premise are gone. PortalDesk offers a fully supported Business Online bundle that provides the same functionality at half the cost. Now small businesses can experience many of the same benefits and features large companies enjoy – e-mail and calendaring information, sales management, service desk to support your clients, project coordination, remote access to critical data, support for mobile devices, internal corporate Web sites, file sharing, and backup and restore capabilities – all in one affordable, integrated solution.
PortalDesk Business Online provides businesses with Hosted Exchange, Hosted SharePoint®, and mobile sync for Windows Mobile and iPhone® devices that is protected by many safeguards, including enhanced antispam for one low monthly fee per user. Services are billed monthly and, like a utility, can be turned on and off as needed. There is no capital outlay required and you only pay for what you need.
The cost of owning your own server to support the message and collaboration needs of your business is no longer cost justifiable or a competitive advantage. With companies like Google™ and Microsoft® launching a series of online services, the new norm is hosted software delivered as a service, known as software as a service (SaaS). The cost savings alone can justify the switch from on-premise servers to SaaS, especially in businesses with up to 75 users. Businesses with larger number of users still enjoy costs savings, but can also benefit by off-loading the burden of managing their own messaging and collaboration servers to focus on the core business applications that directly improve the performance and competitiveness of their companies.
Figure 1 identifies the savings of SaaS compared to an on-premise solution.
Figure 1: Savings Available from SaaS
ITUtility.NET helps transition businesses from an on-premise solution for messaging and collaboration to a SaaS solution through its network of Partners across Canada. The partnership between ITUtility.NET and its Partners delivers the combination of products and services needed to offer a complete SaaS offering to businesses. ITUtility.NET does not sell direct and works with its Partners to design and support SaaS offerings, helping businesses leverage technology to operate more efficiently and effectively.
If you are a Microsoft Partner and considering SaaS as a business line, contact us to find out how using our white label services can help you set up and operate your own SaaS solution to offer to your clients. The SaaS market is just starting to experience growth. According to AMI-Partners research, there are over 876,000 small businesses in Canada with less than 24 PCs, of which almost 574,000 do not have a server. As a Microsoft Partner, you can guide them in their decision to start with a SaaS solution. In addition, there are approximately 1.2 million small businesses running a server on-premise that can benefit from a SaaS solution. These businesses may transition to SaaS when an event triggers a need to upgrade, such as a major outage caused by their on-premise server, the need to upgrade to attain new functionality, or when the cost to upgrade to the new version of an on-premise server is cost prohibitive.
Visit the PortalDesk website at www.portaldesk.net for a list of Partners available to help you benefit from SaaS. If you would like more information on the PortalDesk Business Online offering, contact us at 888/613-567-4886 or at sales@portaldesk.net.
About ITUtility.NET
ITUtility.NET is a white label SaaS hoster for Microsoft Outlook®, Exchange, and SharePoint®. ITUtility.NET products are offered through its Partners to small and medium businesses (SMBs) as a subscription service. ITUtility.NET Partners bundle their value-added products and services to provide SMBs a complete solution for their messaging and collaboration requirements without installing or maintaining any on-premise servers. The bundled offering from ITUtility.NET and its Partners empower SMBs to be more productive without the hassle of buying and maintaining technology. The ITUtility.NET services can be turned on or off like a utility, allowing SMBs to only pay for the IT they need when they need it.
For further information contact:
Jen Zaremba
ITUtility.NET Corporation
E-mail: Jen.Zaremba@ITUtility.NET
