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February 28, 2010
E-mail, once the tool for online collaboration, with its benefits of address lists, instant message delivery, and multiple recipients, has now become an inefficient method for collaborating. The problems with e-mail as a collaboration tool include multiple copies of the same e-mail, lack of version control, spam filters blocking valid e-mails, and large attachments putting mailboxes over capacity and slowing download times.
Enter Microsoft SharePoint® services, the online collaboration tool for business. SharePoint includes a myriad of features for collaborating, from document sharing with version control, to blogs and wikis. SharePoint’s seamless integration with Microsoft Office 2007, through its inclusion as part of the Microsoft Office System, has made it the real standard for collaboration.
To leverage all the benefits of SharePoint services, it should be integrated with Microsoft Exchange 2007. This integration enables rich features only available when Exchange and SharePoint are hosted on the same platform. Some of these features include:
· Adding a SharePoint meeting site into an Exchange meeting invitation, facilitating online collaboration
· Sharing contacts between SharePoint and Exchange, eliminating the need to manage two separate contact list
· Creating e-mail-enabled SharePoint list, managing correspondence and other documents used for customer
support, sales, and project management
To improve the value of collaboration, ITUtility.NET bundles SharePoint services with each Exchange 2007 mailbox. ITUtility.NET Partners can offer this bundle to their customers as an alternative to on-premise servers or competing products delivered over the Internet using software-as-a-service (SaaS). The value of the ITUtility.NET Exchange and SharePoint combination is further extended by pooling the storage of both products. Pooling storage offers users the flexibility to share their storage requirements across Exchange and SharePoint, reducing the need to buy extra storage if they consume one product’s allotment while still having storage available on the other product. ITUtility.NET also aggregates storage at the company level, allowing a company’s high-storage users to access the remaining storage from low-storage users, reducing excess storage fees for the company.
Exchange users can enjoy considerable benefits when using SharePoint as a collaboration tool. As a viable replacement for Exchange Public folders, SharePoint can provide additional features for improving collaboration, such as document sharing over the Internet using Web folders with version control and check-in and -out features. SharePoint can also be customized to deliver solutions for performing business activities online. If you are considering Hosted Exchange services or Hosted SharePoint services as an extension to your IT product portfolio for your customers, consider offering the services as a combo to maximize collaboration’s value.
For ITUtility.NET Partners with limited Exchange 2007 or SharePoint services experience, ITUtility.NET can facilitate partnering with other ITUtility.NET Partners, or offer complementary services to support your business goals.
For more information on how to take advantage of Exchange and SharePoint collaboration visit: http://www.portaldesk.net or contact us at 888/613-567-4886 | e-mail: sales@itutility.net.
About ITUtility.NET
ITUtility.NET is a white label SaaS hoster for Microsoft Outlook®, Exchange, and SharePoint®, offering products 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 empowers SMBs to be more productive without the hassle of buying and maintaining technology. ITUtility.NET services can be turned on or off monthly 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
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