Why does it matter? Well, saving money on IT matters even more than before in these challenging economic times.
Microsoft has stated that customers moving from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 can potentially reach TCO savings of nearly 70%! While, it may not be realistic for all customers to move to utilization of all of the features in Microsoft Exchange, like Unified Messaging and Mobile Messaging in order to reach those savings, it is reasonable to expect that customers could simply upgrade their Exchange 2003 environment to Exchange 2007 and reach TCO savings of 20% or more. These incredible savings are possible by improvements in three main areas:
First area is in Storage – Exchange 2003 customers with expensive high-end SAN storage will gain the most by moving to Exchange 2007 and low cost Direct Attached Storage (or DAS). Savings can approach 70% or more according to Microsoft.
Second area is in Software – Exchange 2007 requires fewer servers than in previous versions. This allows customers to save on costly software licensing and these can be as high as 10% or more.
Last area for improvement is in Hardware – Fewer servers, means less hardware and thus savings of 5% or more can be reached just on servers alone.
Turn to an experienced IT partner who can help you reduce costs, increase employee productivity, and provide enhanced performance and security for your messaging environment. Outsourcing to EDS will ensure you get a secure, consistent and efficiently managed messaging infrastructure. EDS? Managed Messaging Services provides an end-to-end solution – from implementation and scheduled upgrades to management and reporting. Our comprehensive approach ensures your messaging solution meets your workplace needs and aligns with your overall business strategy. Plus, you get the same assurance of security and performance whether we install and manage your solution from an EDS facility or at your site.
Core to the solution are fully managed Microsoft Exchange services that offer a low-cost alternative to staffing, administering and supporting your own messaging infrastructure. As a long-time strategic partner with Microsoft, we have deep knowledge of Microsoft products and line-of-sight into their research and new technologies. That insight coupled with our rigorous management processes and technical expertise makes our messaging solution hard to beat.
By outsourcing your e-mail messaging management to EDS you?re able to:
- Reduce capital costs
- Provide better performance, reliability and security
- Leverage our extensive knowledge and expertise
- Grow in functionality
A secure, reliable solution that pays for itself
Save time and money by simplifying your messaging management using a unique flexible, modular structure that scales as you grow. The EDS managed messaging solution also enhances security and provides high availability and data redundancy to keep your business moving. Increase work force productivity by providing your users with anytime, anywhere access and unified features.
You'll benefit from:
- Cost savings – The easiest and largest area to gain cost savings is in Storage. Storage represents nearly 80% of your customer?s capital in their current Exchange 2003 environment. If you want to get your customer?s attention, we can show how to reduce that amount by 60% or more. EDS further enhances these storage cost savings by implementing a proprietary building block model that maximizes mailbox flexibility, increases performance and reliability, and yet allows a customer to only pay for the storage they use, vs. paying for expensive dedicated SAN frames. On top of this ability to lower storage costs, customers will also see immediate cost savings in infrastructure. Exchange 2007 requires fewer servers, which leads to a reduction in hardware, software, hosting and server management costs..
- Increased productivity – You can increase employee productivity with anywhere, anytime access to your messaging system – even when employees are not connected to your network. The integration of e-mail and voice mail into a single message store lets users receive voice mail and e-mail in one box, and lets them access this mailbox from cell phones and other wireless devices. Voice commands allow users to control and listen to e-mail over the phone. An optional e-mail protection uplift lets you guard your environment against spam, viruses, or attacks that might otherwise interrupt employee work or even take down an inadequately protected infrastructure.
- Mitigated Risks through Enhanced Security - We manage and configure your messaging security infrastructure to protect it from all kinds of threats. E-mail Protection Services can reduce your legal liability risk through antispam and antivirus filters.
- Improved Customer Service – High availability, smooth delivery, and reduction of spam results in satisfied employees and customers. Continuous clustering and replication increases your availability and data redundancy so your company?s critical business messaging is always available. Availability is standard at 99.9 percent, with 99.95 and 99.99 percent options possible.
Unified Messaging helps increase knowledge worker productivity
Unified Messaging is the integration of e-mail and voice mail into a single unified message store, accessible from a variety of devices.
Unified Messaging helps increase knowledge worker productivity:
- Messages and voice mail are all delivered into the same inbox so that employees can easily access the information they need immediately instead of constantly switching from one tool to another.
- Your mobile users have quick access to all of their communications?voice mail and e-mail?from Outlook 2007, Outlook Web Access 2007, Exchange ActiveSync®-capable devices, and the new Outlook Voice Access
- All of your users also have broad access to calendar, contact, and corporate directory data through the telephone, including reading calendar information to users and allowing them to look up and voice dial people both from their own contacts folder and from the corporate directory. They can handle their messages and calendar data (including listening to, forwarding, and replying to e-mails and making, updating, or responding to meeting requests) over the telephone. Users can flag messages for follow-up, skip to the next unread, hide or delete conversations, and even find messages from particular users, all using either voice navigation or a standard touch-tone keypad.
- The Automated Attendant capability helps both internal and external callers to find the right person quickly; for example, a caller who asks the attendant for "sales" can be routed to a specific extension, a hunt group (a group of extensions that can be accessed via a single number), or a group voice mailbox.
Unified Messaging provides the foundation for unified communications. The combination of e-mail and voice mail can be augmented with presence, instant messaging (IM), and real-time conferencing capability to expand the ways in which users can share information and communicate.
Choose EDS
EDS offers a robust and rich messaging and collaboration platform that delivers:
- Optimal security
- High flexibility
- Cost efficiency
- High-availability and optimal performance with built-in data redundancy
We currently manage more than 5.3 million mailboxes globally and have worked with Microsoft Exchange since its original release in 1996. You can be assured EDS has the expertise and experience to manage the e-mail tools you need to compete effectively in the Internet economy.
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