Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS)

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 BPOS 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
• Office Live Meeting for web and video conferencing

Why BPOS? With Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, you get:

• Familiar, trusted services delivered from the cloud—quickly and easily
• Multiple online services—the best value for customers who need more than one online service.
• Always-up-to-date technologies backed by a 99.9% uptime guarantee
• 25 gigabytes (GB) of mailbox storage per standard license.
• Mobile access through a variety of mobile devices to key services, including email, calendar, and shared content.
• Economical options for your entire workforce—mobile and deskless workers can get simple access to email and portals with Business Productivity Online Deskless Worker Suite.

Technical information:

Designed with interoperability in mind, Business Productivity Online Standard Suite can be deployed in combination with on-premises and Microsoft-hosted. Your deployment model can change dynamically as your business needs shift and grow.

Technical requirements include:

• Operating systems: Windows XP and later, Macintosh OS X (10.4 and later).
• Browser software: Internet Explorer 6 or later, Firefox 3, Safari 3 (on Macintosh OS X).
• Email client: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and later.

Microsoft Online Services benefits include:

The latest business productivity capabilities

• Business-class e-mail, Web conferencing, instant messaging, document collaboration and workflow all designed to work together seamlessly. Ease of use
• Services synchronize with your Microsoft Active Directory, so you maintain control and can continue to manage user policies centrally
• A single administrative panel enables simple and centralized provisioning and management of new and existing users
• End users can securely access the service virtually anywhere without the need for a VPN connection and through a wide selection of mobile devices Privacy & rapid disaster recovery
• Secure Internet protocols including HTTPS and HTTP over SSL to access your services
• Redundant network architecture capable of disaster recovery
• In the event of datacenter connectivity issues, services switch over to a backup datacenter Greater flexibility
• Build your own solution with individual services or purchase as an integrated suite
• Choose to run some applications on-premises, or choose Online Services hosted and managed by Microsoft or Microsoft Partners
• Leverage tools such as Active Directory Synchronization so you can make online, on-premises, or hybrid deployment choices by service, user roles, and geography to meet organizational needs best
• Adjust your deployment model dynamically as your business needs shift and grow Improved agility
• Easily extend new capabilities to your organization without straining internal resources
• Expand your IT capacity by adding new services without investing in the development of new skills or deploying new hardware and software
• Free your valuable IT resources from routine management tasks to focus on core business initiatives that can deliver a true competitive advantage Security & reliability
• Microsoft Online Services run on a global network of data centers protected by multiple layers of security and operational best practices
• Microsoft Online Services guarantee a service level agreement of 99.9% uptime
• Data centers and services managed by rigorously screened and highly trained staff

Get started today:
Contact Sentri to learn more about BPOS for your organization. Please fill out the inquiry to the right or email: cswartz@sentri.com