A hosted email solution with five star reliability and collaboration for less money

a hosted email solution with five star reliability and collaboration for less money
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If we polled business owners as to what they thought the three most critical factors determining their success was there’s a good chance that the top three would be: reliability, collaboration, and low cost.

Achieving those three critical elements in a hosted email solution for your business should be considered a tremendous win for your company. The truth is that many business owners may not spend the necessary time and resources into really researching the best possible option. Microsoft Exchange is often thought of as the “go to” choice here purely for its name and recognition. Further investigation, however, does show that another option exists that could provide all the wonderful familiarity and usability of Microsoft Outlook with even better reliability and collaboration at just about half the costs. Introduce yourself to Zarafa.

Firstly, Zarafa can offer increased reliability with the full utilization of a Linux server, which saves your email and collaboration data to a MySQL database for added security. Collaboration is another strong suit of Zarafa, whereas it enables full Outlook sharing, including email, calendar, and contacts. It is also compatible with any mobile device.

The true strength in having Zarafa up and running for your business, however, is in its open source platform. Because it is open-source, the costs are significantly lower than those of its competitors. In some cases they are as little as 50% of the costs of some proprietary packages. It is also fully licensed under the Alfero GPLv3 software license.

Overall, it is the peanut-butter and jelly like combination of providing open, compatible, and enterprise level collaboration with Linux server reliability and all at a lower cost that makes Zarafa a real alternative to Microsoft Exchange in the eyes of its customers and partners.

“AE Technology Group” is a Managed IT and Cloud Hosting Solution Provider headquartered in Rockville Centre, NY. We specialize in offering enterprise class services to small and medium sized businesses including: Managed IT Services, Business IT Support, Cloud computing, Disaster Recovery, Email, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Hardware as a Service (HaaS), Hosting Services, and VoIP. Please contact us today for more information. We would love to hear from you!

What are the financial benefits of a Hosted Email solution?

what are the financial benefits of a hosted email solution
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The average employee of a modern company sends and receives email with little thought to as how much overhead is required to maintain the system. However, those that manage the IT budget do, and over time the paradigm of on-premise, company hosted and managed email servers has started to show inefficiency. Thankfully, there are many options currently available for hosted email solutions. Some recent findings are not just validating the intuitive notion that hosted solutions shave off IT costs in noticeable amounts, they also carry added organizational benefits beyond just the explicit TCO.

It has been shown that certain organizations can stand to save over $62,160 (£40,000 ) by switching to a hosted email solution, particularly SMBs with approximately 70 users. This factors in the following considerations:

  •  Individual mailboxes incur storage costs.
  • On-premise email searches are not always optimal.
  • The typical three-year cycle of replacing hardware is expensive.
  • On-premise email ultimately means costly long-term licenses.

However, some have also noted that a hosted solution can bring with it less-obvious productivity and integration gains. For instance:

  • Hosted solutions are invariably more scalable.
  • Hosted solutions are often readily bundled or integrated with additional collaborative tools that can add further dimensions to workplace communication.
  • Hosted solutions bolster the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiative – they are inherently platform-independent and mobile devices are geared towards browser access.

Hosted email solutions are a major shift in an organization’s communication strategy, despite the fact that they still provide one of the most familiar forms of digital business interaction. It takes a trusted partner to help a business make the shift to hosted email. For more information contact AE Technology Group, a trusted technology partner that provides service with Zarafa, a leading open source email and collaboration solution.