E-Mail: The More Indispensable It Becomes, The Better It Has to Be.
For most businesses today, e-mail is the mission-critical communications tool that enables employees to produce the best possible results. This greater reliance on e-mail has increased the number of messages sent and received; the variety of work performed, and even the speed of business itself. Amid this change, employee expectations have also evolved. Today, employees look for rich, efficient access to e-mail, calendars, file attachments, contacts, and more - no matter where they are or what type of device they are using.
Product Overview
For IT professionals, delivering a messaging system that addresses these needs, must be balanced against other requirements such as security and cost. Enterprise security requirements have become much more complex as the demand for, and use of, e-mail has increased. Today, IT departments must contend with e-mail security threats that are wide-ranging: continually evolving spam and viruses; noncompliance risks; vulnerability of e-mail to interception and tampering; and the potentially harmful effects of natural and manmade disasters. While security is clearly a priority, IT is ever aware of the need to manage cost. Time, money, and resource constraints are facts of life as IT is consistently required to do more, with less. As a result, IT professionals look for a messaging system that addresses both enterprise and employee needs, while also being cost-effective to deploy and manage. The Sawtel Hosted Microsoft Exchange Service™ leverages Microsoft’s market-proven, Windows-based hosting platform, which reduces the operational costs and increases return on investment, without the attendant cost, infrastructure and support liabilities of local deployment.
Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to Exchange Server
- Keep your e-mail system running at lower cost
- Access e-mail, voice mail, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, anytime
- Experience affordable, enterprise-class mobile messaging that is better than ever
- Empower employees with unified messaging, while saving money
- Ensure comprehensive protection from spam, viruses and phishing attacks
- Reduce compliance risk in a way that makes sense for your business
- Take advantage of powerful Web access via Outlook Web Access [OWA]
- Boost administrator productivity with new tools
- Reduce deployment, administration and management overhead
- Optimize your investment for future growth
Product Highlights
- Built-in Protection
Sawtel Hosted Exchange Server™ offers built-in protective technologies to keep your business moving, reduce spam and viruses, enable confidential communications, and achieve full compliance at all necessary levels.
- Anti-spam and Antivirus
Built-in defenses against spam and phishing e-mail, as well as additional integrated filtering and multi-engine scanning capabilities, provide advanced protection
- Confidential Messaging
New encryption features for both internal and Internet-based messages help protect the
confidentiality of messages in transit
- Compliance
Controls for messages in transport, or requiring retention, and flexible journaling help meet organizational, legal, and regulatory compliance requirements
- Business Continuity
New data replication capabilities (local and clustered) keep the system highly available while limiting the need for and frequency of, tape backup
- Anywhere Access
With Sawtel Hosted Exchange Server™, employees get virtually anywhere access to their e-mail, voice mail, calendars, and contacts from a variety of clients and devices
- Collaboration and Productivity
Enhanced calendaring, out-of-office notifications, resource booking, and meeting scheduling
capabilities simplify collaboration and increase productivity
- Unified Messaging
New Exchange Unified Messaging goes beyond e-mail to deliver more types of communications to the inbox, including faxes and voice mail, as well as offering new capabilities such as voice access from any standard phone
- Web-based Messaging
A rich "Microsoft Office Outlook™-like" experience from any Internet-connected computer with a
supported browser provides encrypted access to the inbox, powerful search capability, and the capacity to view different
types of attachments
- Mobile Messaging
Exchange ActiveSync technology delivers an improved e-mail and calendaring experience on mobile devices, while offering enhanced device and security policy control
- Operational Efficiency
Sawtel Hosted Exchange Server™ enables new levels of operational efficiency through capabilities that optimize hardware and networking investments and features that enable administrators to be more productive.
- Performance and Scalability
Improved storage efficiency can be achieved through the extended memory and larger cache of x64-based host server architecture, even as mailbox sizes and the number of user accounts per server increase. More efficient routing ensures the best use of bandwidth.
- Administration
New graphical and command-line interfaces offer improved manageability and increased automation while integrated tools simplify maintenance
- Deployment
Modular setup and server provisioning based on server roles, as well as the capability to automatically discover Office Outlook™ and mobile clients greatly simplifies deployment
- Extensibility and Programmability
New Web services–based application programming interface (API) and .NET
integration via Exchange Management Shell tasks, enable rapid development for custom and third-party applications
The Outlook Experience
Sawtel Hosted Exchange Server™ integrates with the broadest range of clients. It supports a complete Office Outlook™ experience, from Outlook on the desktop, to Outlook Web Access, Outlook Mobile, and the new Outlook Voice Access, a feature of Exchange Unified Messaging. Exchange Server also integrates with Microsoft Windows SharePoint™ Services and other Microsoft Office™ applications, as well as third-party systems and devices.
