By: Julia Aidan
Submitted: 2009-10-20 23:26:34 | Word Count: 442
In today's competitive market, businesses of all types require excellent communications and email solutions in order to meet the needs of their clients and enable their employees to perform at peak efficiency, while at the same time keeping costs down. Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) provides innovative cloud hosted communication answers so that your business can increase productivity and realize cost savings at the same time.
BPOS enables cost savings at several levels. Operating from a cloud hosted system rather than a self hosted system means that there is no up-front capital expenditure for software and hardware. Rather, businesses can purchase based on their current personnel needs, and expand their communications capacity as the business expands and more employees are hired. Employees who spend little time in the office can be set up with the deskless worker option at reduced expense. Predictable monthly expenses take the place of emergency software purchases, allowing for a more stable bottom line from month to month.
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With the online meeting place and communications abilities provided by BPOS, company productivity will be increased and employees' can operate more efficiently from home or office. Many work hours can be saved across the company by allowing employees access to their email, shared calendars, and instant messaging capabilities from personal PCS, laptops, and smartphones. Email and phone tag will be a thing of the past as employees utilize the presence awareness capabilities of Office Communications Online. In addition, travel expenses can be drastically reduced since employees in different locations can hold virtual meetings via web conferencing rather than traveling to a central location.
In addition, the need for onsite servers will be eliminated since applications are cloud hosted, meaning that IT personnel will be available to target company needs rather than monitoring the servers. It also means you'll see increased uptime, allowing for the most efficient office function and productivity. This allows significant cost savings by reducing work hours spent on the servers and allowing the IT department to function at its best and most efficient capacity.
Migrating to the Business Productivity Online Suite is a quick and painless process with migration services included via Active Directory integration. Switching to BPOS will give your company the technological edge you need at a cost you can afford, and without the headache of maintaining onsite hosting. Take your business to the next level in performance, communication, and efficiency and remain on the cutting edge of business technology with the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite.
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En Pointe is a Microsoft Gold Certified Reseller and offers BPOS. Follow En Pointe's technology blog to stay up-to-date.
