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 Miles Consulting Corp (MCC) is a Gold Certified Microsoft Online Services Partner. Streamline your business communications to help your employees stay in touch and be more productive—on the go from virtually any device—with Microsoft. Online Services from Miles Consulting Corp. Internet-based e-mail, remote file sharing, Web conferencing, and other communication and collaboration tools come with the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, a hosted platform you can deploy quickly and easily—with virtually no up-front investment. The suite will work with your existing systems, provide business-class security and reliability at predictable IT costs, and simplify server management so your IT staff can focus on the business-critical initiatives that boost your competitive advantage.
Business Productivity Online Standard (BPOS) Suite is a set of enterprise products delivered as a subscription service, hosted by Microsoft and sold with Microsoft Online Servces partners like MCC. They are designed for customers with managed IT needs. The suite includes Exchange Online, Office SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online, Exchange Hosted Filtering, and Office Live Meeting.
BPOS offerings are for organizations with more advanced IT needs where power and flexibility are critical, and the ability to control access to data, manage users, apply business and compliance policy, and meet high availability standards may all be important considerations. BPOS is designed to provide the performance, scalability, security, management features, and service level capabilities to support the mission-critical applications and systems used by organizations that have more rigorous technical requirements. Today these services include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online, Office Live Meeting, and Exchange Hosted Services.
The BPOS represents the first of a growing portfolio of Microsoft Online Services. Microsoft Online Services are a component of the broader Microsoft Software-plus-Services strategy that includes both Live and Online services.
Key Benefits
1. Online Services can help streamline communications to boost employee productivity.
Online Services can help improve the productivity of your employees with the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite - a selection of hosted communication and collaboration services that have been dialed in for organizations like yours. The suite’s powerful tools help your employees communicate and collaborate with coworkers, customers, and partners around the world - simply, effectively, and affordably using advanced security measures and offering high reliability. The suite’s enhanced collaboration tools provide intuitive, easy ways for employees to share information, files, business processes, calendars, instant messaging (IM), voice, conferences, and more. The suite is built on proven software platforms to deliver best-in-class communication and collaboration via an easy-to-use Internet-based service that brings together different modes of communication into a consistent experience - with a single sign on.
2. Online Services can be deployed rapidly.
The Business Productivity Online Suite can be activated quickly and cost-effectively to give your employees the additional capabilities of the latest platform while protecting your current IT infrastructure investment. With no additional hardware or software to procure, configure, or manage, and virtually no up-front investment, the suite provides a simple and direct migration route to enhanced business communications.
3. Online Services can help your IT department contribute greater business value.
By helping to reduce their workload, Online Services can free your IT professionals to focus on strategic initiatives that can help drive competitive advantage. Online Services typically reduce the need to install and maintain equipment and software on-premises, help relieve the burden of managing and maintaining business systems, and simplify server management tasks through a single administrative panel for provisioning, monitoring, and reporting on service activity and usage.
4. Online Services are available through select Microsoft partners.
Authorized Microsoft Partners, such as Miles Consulting Corp, are in touch with your business and available to assist your IT staff as needed along the way, building a knowledgeable consulting relationship that can continue to pay business dividends over the long term. We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and authorized by Microsoft to sell and service BPOS.
5. Online Services can help improve your financial performance.
The suite can help boost your financial performance in several ways: First, it provides your business the functionality it needs with virtually no up-front capital investment—enabling you to direct your capital resources for optimal use. Second, the Online Services subscription model, with its financially backed service level agreement, helps increase the predictability of your monthly IT costs so that IT leadership can provide more accurate forecasts. Third, by helping employees communicate and collaborate more efficiently online, you can help remove geography as an impediment to productivity and help decrease unnecessary travel expenses.
6. Online Services can help make your business communication more disaster recoverable.
Microsoft Online Services are hosted on a global network of geo-redundant, tier-one data center network architecture that can facilitate disaster recovery using advanced security measures and offering high reliability.
7. Online Services provide business-class security.
The suite delivers security-enhanced messaging and data access that enable customers to get messages and shared documents across encrypted Internet connections.
8. Online Services help increase the availability of business communications.
Because Microsoft hosts its Online Services on a distributed network of geo-redundant data centers using advanced security technologies and measures that provide 99.9 percent service reliability, Microsoft is able to provide a financially backed service level agreement.
9. Online Services help defend against threats to your network.
Online Services employ hosted multilayer filtering from Microsoft Exchange Online to help protect your inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations by minimizing threats to your platform.
10. Online Services can help improve sales-force performance and drive more customer sales.
Microsoft Online Services can help your people spend more time in the field by keeping them in touch with important customers and critical customer relationship management (CRM) sales and marketing resources. This helps improve communication and collaboration with customers and among teams. |