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Most small and mid-sized businesses are using email as a primary communication channel with customers, colleagues and suppliers. But many of these companies stop there, missing out on productivity-boosting features like shared calendars, contact information and files.
By upgrading to the world’s most popular business messaging software, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, you can significantly raise your team’s efficiency.
Basically, Exchange is a computer server that stores your company’s email, calendars, address books and files centrally, so they are available 24×7 and can be shared among your team, if you wish. It is the messaging system of choice for most Fortune 500 corporations.
People running Exchange as their email server typically use Microsoft Outlook as their email ‘client’. Among many advanced features, this lets them:
Exchange is a quantum leap from basic POP3 or IMAP4 email and makes your team much more productive through constant access to email, calendars and contacts, as well as important files and information.
Basic POP and IMAP email systems, which are currently used for accessing email, are more suited to home and personal use, rather than business. These POP and IMAP email systems were never designed to include the broader, richer collaborative tools that Microsoft Exchange Server has made possible.
The Winning Combination of Outlook and Exchange Server vs. Basic Email
To help you understand the productivity-boosting options that Exchange Server offers, here is a comparison of the combination of Outlook with Exchange Server versus basic email options:
Exchange Server 2007 | POP 3 / IMAP4 | |
Group scheduling | ||
Send out meeting requests, then track and update them | ||
Shared calendars and side-by-side calendar views | ||
Access to personal and shared address books from remote locations | ||
Outlook single sign-on for email and network access | ||
Outlook connections over the Internet are secure | Some solutions | |
Server-side spam filtering | Some solutions | |
Put multicolored flags next to emails as a reminder to follow up | Partial | |
Ability to add voting buttons to a messages | ||
Automatic out-of-office reply | Some solutions | |
Ability to recall sent messages | ||
Support for multiple-computer access | Partial | |
Partial Access to email via Web browsers and mobile browsers, Outlook Mobile in Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs, Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphones | Non-Microsoft products are typically required | |
Outlook Cached Exchange Mode for working with intermittent Web connection (eg dial-up) | Some solutions offer caching | |
Offline email, calendar, contacts, and public folder support | Partial | |
Access to public folders for sharing documents and information | Individual email folder access in IMAP | |
Basic email support for SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 | ||
Easy management of Outlook and Exchange Server profiles across multiple machines to lower support costs |
Microsoft Exchange is the most powerful messaging/collaboration platform available for businesses today. It provides unmatched features for email, contact management, calendaring, mobile access to messages, and much more.
IT Radix has the expertise to help you leverage Microsoft Exchange for your business. Whether you are upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, or implementing Exchange for the first time we can help. We know how to set up Exchange for maximum security, reliability, and performance.
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