Microsoft Online Services
Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite is a set of messaging and collaboration tools, delivered as a subscription service, that gives your business rich capabilities without the need to deploy and maintain software and hardware on-premise. These online services are designed to help meet your needs for robust security, all-day every-day reliability, and user productivity.
The suite includes Microsoft Exchange Online for email and calendaring; Microsoft SharePoint Online for portals and document sharing; Microsoft Office Communications Online for presence availability, instant messaging, and peer to peer audio calls; and Office Live Meeting for web and video conferencing.
E-mail, shared calendars, & contacts
Microsoft Exchange Online is a hosted enterprise messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and provides the following:
- Improved e-mail security
- "From virtually-anywhere" access to e-mail for your employees
- Enhanced operational efficiency for your IT staff
- 25-gigabyte (GB) mailbox storage per standard license
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Collaborate on documents, share knowledge, and manage information
SharePoint Online brings together the familiar SharePoint collaboration platform now delivered as an online service making the power of the cloud work for your business. SharePoint Online provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, share knowledge and find organizational resources and information.
- Deploy on-premises, online, or both: Microsoft SharePoint Server can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, so you can select the right option for your company. Whether you deploy SharePoint Server on-premises, host an entire platform online, or combine these options in a hybrid environment, your people can access the tools they need to get work done. With SharePoint, make your decision based on business needs—not technology constraints
- Quickly respond to new opportunities: SharePoint Online can support everyone in your company: from colleagues located around the world, to temporary employees, to people from a new acquisition. With no server purchases or deployments, you can quickly provision a small satellite office, interim staff, or a newly acquired business—helping people to work better together, right from the start.
- Provide a familiar user experience: SharePoint Online provides a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience. Connections to Microsoft Office mean that your people can work with confidence using well-known applications and interfaces. And, they can work offline and use Microsoft SharePoint Workspace to access SharePoint Online document repositories.
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Hosted Web conferencing
Connect with your colleagues and engage your customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events.
Features include:
- Web client support for remote attendee flexibility
- Interactive application/desktop sharing and whiteboard tools
- Active speaker video switching, multi-party video, and multi-party VoIP audio
- Rich-media presentations, native video conferencing, high-fidelity recording, and Web-cam capabilities
- Training and event management with event and class registration and virtual breakout rooms
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IM & presence awareness
Delivers robust instant messaging (IM) and presence functionality that enables real-time person-to-person communication via text, voice and video, across an organization. Through presence awareness, employees can quickly detect a colleague's availability for a time-sensitive consult or business-critical decision—and then connect rapidly using a reliable, security-enhanced IM solution. Here are some of the great features you can expect from Microsoft's Office Communications Online:
- Ability to display and detect presence availability of other users on the network
- Instant messaging over the Internet or a corporate network, with IM text encrypted
- Integration with Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Word for presence awareness and collaboration
- Presence integration with SharePoint sites
- Users can add distribution lists to their Contact Lists and IM with individuals or the entire list
- Remote access
