Email is a critical communication tool in today’s business world, however the costs of implementing reliable email and group collaboration service can be overwhelming.  Azurance enables organisations of all sizes to utilise enterprise-class messaging and collaboration tools to provide a flexible and scalable experience at predicable monthly costs.

With Azurance's hosted Exchange 2010, email will be hosted in our dual active/active data centres.  All hosted email can be accessed securely through any web browser, compatible mobile devices, and synchronised with each PC’s Microsoft Outlook.  Whether in the office, travelling, or working from home, every member of your business will have guaranteed, secure access to their email.  In addition, with Azurance’s hosted Exchange, users can share calendars, folders, and contacts to enhance collaboration anytime, anywhere. 

• Get up and running quickly and easily without impacting your daily operations
• Maximise resources and save money with no upfront investment, ongoing maintenance or time consuming internal IT management required
• Access your calendar, e-mail, and contacts anywhere and don’t miss another email, fax, or calendar invite next time you’re out of the office
• Preserve the integrity of your communications with multi-layered anti-spam and anti-virus protection built in to combat threats to your confidential data
• Trust proven leaders in the industry by relying on first-class service and technology with Azurance and Microsoft

Unlike basic email services, Azurance’s hosted Microsoft Exchange email solution provides individuals the ability to more effectively share data, documents and schedules.  Intuitive scheduling tools, search functionality, and numerous calendaring features allows employees to collaborate and be productive regardless of their location. 

Reasons to Upgrade to Exchange

Hosted Microsoft Exchange is designed to deliver increased protection for your business and give anywhere access for your employees, while being operationally efficient to deploy, manage and maintain. 

1. Increased Availability: Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) in combination with Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS), active/passive clusters provide both data base and service redundancy without requiring expensive shared storage, even when clusters span geographical locations.

2. Access e-mail, voicemail, calendar, and contacts from anywhere, anytime: Access inbox information using desktop computer, laptop computer, a browser window from any Internet-connected computer, mobile device and even using a basic telephone when no Internet connectivity is available.

3. Improved Access with Microsoft ActiveSync for Mobile Devices:  Exchange offers native integration with compatible devices, including iPhone, Windows Mobile 5.0 & 6.0, Nokia N and E Series devices, and much much more!
New mobile feature support also include: 

• Conversation View: multiple messages as a single conversation
• Nickname cahe: providing suggest name lsit of recent recipients
• Free/busy lookup: look at a contact's celandar availability
• Reply state: see if user has replied to or forwarded an email
• Server search: search the server to find the message anywhere in the mailbox
• Message flagging: mark messages that need special follow-up when they get back to their PC 

4. Empower Employees with Unified Messaging:  Receive e-mail, voicemail, and faxes through a single inbox that can be accessed from anywhere.  Employees can manage all of their messages in one place just as they manage e-mail today.

For example, voicemail can be forwarded, or if the recipient adds text notes to the voicemail, messages can be found using built-in search.

5. Comprehensive Protection from Spam, Viruses and Phishing Attacks:  Provides integrated anti-virus, anti-spam, and anti-phishing technologies to stop the latest threats before they impact your business and employees. Azurance adds additional security to both inbound and outbound threats to your system by adding Microsoft Forefront installed at the server level. Additional user level Anti-Spam and Content Filtering on inbound and outbound messages available.

6. Reduce Compliance Risk in a way that Makes Sense for Your Business:  Incorporates features specifically designed to help your business comply with corporate, regulatory, and legal requirements. These features enable you to apply retention rules, scan and act on messages in transport, flexibly journal, and perform rich text searches across mailboxes in your organisation.  Exchange eases the toll often placed on administrators charged with applying and enforcing compliance policies, while avoiding adverse impact on employees and their productivity.

7.  Take Advantage of Powerful Web Access:  Outlook Web App 2010 provides a rich Outlook-like experience in a browser and is great for home use, at an airport kiosk, at an internet cafe, at a friend’s house, or anywhere where there is an Internet connection available, no VPN or network tunnel is required

8.  Optimise Investment for Future Growth: As a native 64-bit application, Exchange Server can access more memory, ensuring high performance and reliability as mailbox sizes and the number of user accounts per server increase.

9.  Improved Collaboration with Integrated SharePoint Services: Enhanced internal and external collaboration via LinkAccess allows users to retrieve and display a SharePoint site document without a VPN connection.  Collaborate and brainstorm on projects, presentations, meeting notes and reports all located in SharePoint for member use.  And SharePoint now supports blogs and wikis. Overlay a SharePoint calendar to your personal and professional Outlook Calendar and enhance team project planning and management.

10.  Enhanced Calendaring Increases Collaboration and Improves Productivity: Improved Calendaring makes scheduling meetings easier and more reliable, increasing productivity and efficiency. Outlook now automatically suggests the best time available for a meeting based on attendee schedules and lists available resources. Incoming meeting requests are automatically processed as they arrive and placed on calendars as “tentative”, even if you’re not logged in. Enhancements to Out-Of-Office Assistant provides you with additional flexibility of scheduling messages to begin and end on specific dates and times and you can create different messages for internal and external recipients.

Hosted BlackBerry® Enterprise Server

Give your employees real-time BlackBerry e-mail, contacts and calendars, without the additional cost of an in-house BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES.)  With hosted BES, you get a fully-managed BlackBerry service, and you simply pay a flat monthly fee that frees you from all the hardware and software costs, plus the maintenance fees and cost of setting up the service.  BlackBerry service starts at $90 per user per month with the use of Office Access or Anywhere Access plan.

Hosted Microsoft ActiveSync

Exchange 2010 with ActiveSync gives you instant push email using your Windows Mobile device or any other Exchange ActiveSync compatible device, including HTC, Nokia, iPhone, Samsung and many other smartphones.  Give your employees wireless, always-synched access to their  e-mail, calendar, and contacts plus advanced mobility features with hosted Exchange 2010, including conversation view and SMS sync. Enjoy mobile push email service with an Office Access subscription, no setup fees.

Resources Mailbox

Schedule shared resources including meeting rooms and equipment without tying up a full mailbox.  Resource Mailboxes start at $40 per mailbox per month.

Company Disclaimer

Allows administrator to enforce legal disclaimer on all outgoing company e-mail.  Company disclaimer costs $150 per month.