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WHY USE MICROSOFT EXCHANGE?
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 for a small monthly fee.
Basically, Exchange is a computer server that stores your
company’s email, calendars, address books and files centrally,
so they are available 24x7 and can be shared among your team,
if you wish. It is the messaging system of choice for most
Fortune 500 corporations.
ADVANCED FEATURES
People running Exchange as their email server typically use
Microsoft Outlook 2003 as their email ‘client’. Among many
advanced features, this lets them:
- Securely access email remotely – via the Web or a mobile
device like a BlackBerry or Treo
- View colleagues’ up-to-date calendars and schedule
meetings
- Assign and manage company tasks on central ‘to do’ lists
- Manage contact information of employees and customers and
access it anytime
- Share documents across the team so everyone’s working
from the most current version
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 user,
rather than business, and were never designed to include the
broader, richer collaborative tools that Exchange has made
possible.
Now that hosted Exchange is available for no upfront cost, with
low monthly fees, smaller and mid-sized companies are
increasingly realizing the instant competitive advantage that
Exchange can give them.
OUTLOOK/EXCHANGE 2007 vs BASIC EMAIL
To help you understand the productivity-boosting options that
Exchange offers, here is a comparison of Outlook/Exchange 2003
versus basic email options:
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Exchange Server 2007 |
POP 3 /
IMAP4 |
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Group scheduling |
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Send out meeting requests, then track and update
them |
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Shared calendars and side-by-side calendar views |
ü |
û |
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Access to personal and shared address books from
remote locations |
ü |
û |
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Outlook single sign-on for email and network access |
ü |
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Outlook connections over the Internet are secure |
ü |
Some solutions |
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Server-side spam filtering |
ü |
Some solutions |
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Put multicolored flags next to emails as a reminder
to follow up |
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Partial |
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Ability to add voting buttons to a messages |
ü |
û |
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Automatic out-of-office reply |
ü |
û |
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Ability to recall sent messages |
ü |
û |
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Support for multiple-computer access |
ü |
Partial |
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Access to email via Web browsers and mobile
browsers, Outlook Mobile in Windows Mobile-based
Pocket PCs, Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphones |
ü |
Non-Microsoft products are typically required |
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Outlook Cached Exchange Mode for working with
intermittent Web connection (eg dial-up) |
ü |
Some solutions offer caching |
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Offline email, calendar, contacts, and public
folder support |
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Partial |
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Access to public folders for sharing documents and
information |
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Individual email folder access in IMAP |
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Basic email support for SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 |
ü |
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Easy management of Outlook and Exchange Server
profiles across multiple machines to lower support
costs |
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