Microsoft Solutions: Hosted Applications - Hosted Exchange

All the features of Microsoft's industry leading Outlook email client are available with our Hosted Exchange solution. You'll have all the Microsoft Application Protocol Interface (MAPI) messaging capabilities: sending and receipt of email, filtering, email account management and customisation, and the ability to send documents that you are working on as email attachments.

Your business will benefit from the communication efficiencies of every person in your organisation having his or her own inbox, all centrally managed.

With hosted email your company gets one second-level domain, which allows you to use email addresses that incorporate your company name (if you so choose). For example, if your company is called Brysons, your email domain could be xxx@brysons.co.za.

The Standard Hosted Exchange solution gives each user a personal email folder, along with a personal address list, a personal calendar and a personal task management tool.

The benefit of this hosted email option is that everyone in your organisation has a complete set of email management tools with the ability to customise them to suit their personal needs, leading to increased organisational efficiency.

There are a number of collaborative features that you get with this Hosted Exchange solution. All users have access to shared folders, shared address books, shared contact lists, shared task management tools and shared calendars. The latter allows for group scheduling, where each user can see the appointments of other users. Public folder access is also provided.

There are numerous benefits of this type of hosted email collaborative ability. Everyone is able to work together more efficiently, sharing information instantly. No longer is everyone dependent on a single person having to access information of their behalf, and if team members are not available at any given time, the information in their shared folders can be accessed by anyone else in the team. Improved collaboration leads to improved business productivity, with less individual dependencies.

With Standard Hosted Exchange you also get web-based email access - which means that if you are at a device that doesn't have an email client, or find yourself in a hotel that won't allow you to access your email via POP or MAPI, you can simply use a web browser to send and receive email.

The benefit of this is that it frees everyone in your business from reliance on an email client, allowing everyone to access email from anywhere in the world where an Internet connection is available.

A range of mobile features comes with the Standard Hosted Exchange solution.

The server software is able to send event notifications to users' mobile devices. Users can seamlessly synchronise their mobile devices with inboxes, calendars, address books and task management tools on the mail server, and access these remotely via wireless networks.

Hosted email provides the full benefits of being able to work remotely, from anywhere at any time, using any Outlook-enabled mobile device. It's email freedom, independent of location.

Comprehensive anti-virus and anti-spam protection is included in this package.

You business benefits from the neutralisation of any threat before it can reach your internal computers or mobile devices. The people in your organisation won't have to wade through spam in their inboxes, and there won't be the risk of email-borne viruses compromising your company's computers. Email that is tagged as possible spam will be placed in your Junk Email folder.