As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, SoftwareMedia is now able to offer a free 30-day trial for the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). Along with this free trial, SoftwareMedia.com is offering a free $25 gift card with every completed trial sign-up (more details below).
Microsoft BPOS is a bundle of popular messaging and collaboration software that is hosted in the cloud, and is available to your company as a pay as you go service. Microsoft BPOS includes Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online, Office Communications Online, and Office Live Meeting.
So why consider a hosted solution from Microsoft for your messaging and communication software? The reasons are different for every business, but most every company can benefit from lower costs, more uptime, less complex management, and disaster recovery. A hosted solution allows companies to free up their IT staff from having to deal with the burden of managing email and collaboration servers. It also reduces up-front hardware and software licensing costs. With BPOS you pay as you go, for as many users as you need, instead of buying software up-front and having to manage CALs for all of your employees. The software included in BPOS is constantly updated to the latest version, with no need to upgrade every 3-4 years or having to stay on top of critical patches and updates. All of this is taken care of by Microsoft in the cloud. Your IT staff is now free to focus on more important tasks than keeping your email up and running.
With over 2 million users currently subscribed to BPOS all over the world, this hosted solution from Microsoft is gaining more and more support every day. Microsoft guarantees its Online Services to deliver 99.9 percent uptime through its global network of redundant data centers. You will never have to worry about having access to your business-critical data or emails, and you can be assured your data is safe with constant back-ups. BPOS is also gaining the support of companies with high-level security concerns and government agencies. It also complies with numerous international standards for security, like SAS No. 70 Type II and ISO 27001.
By far, the most popular part of BPOS is Exchange Online. This service gives your employees access to their email from anywhere, on most any device. It come with 25GB of storage per user, as well as anti-spam and anti-virus security. You can also boost your productivity through shared tasks, calendars, and contacts that again, can be accessed from anywhere.
Now you are probably wondering, “What is all of this going to cost me?” BPOS pricing tops out at $10 per user, per month, with a 12-month contract. If you have more than 250 users, the price goes down because of volume discounts. This is truly a great deal when you consider Exchange Server software begins at $655 per server and $67 per User CAL (these are the prices currently found on SoftwareMedia.com). And this is only for Exchange! SharePoint Server will run you another $4000 (at least) with $87 per CAL. Factor in software upgrade costs every 3-5 years as well as hardware costs, and BPOS looks more and more attractive.
If you are interested in learning more about BPOS, check out the Microsoft BPOS page on SoftwareMedia.
For a limited time, you will also receive a $25 Gift Card to SoftwareMedia.com just for signing up for a FREE 30-day trial of Business Productivity Online Suite. This gift card can be used for any future purchase on SoftwareMedia.com. Simply provide your email address and contact information in the Free Trial Sign-Up section, and SoftwareMedia will email you a $25 gift card, as well as a link to begin your BPOS 30-day trial.
What are you waiting for? Check out this FREE 30-day trial now…you don’t even have to provide credit card information to sign up!
