• Mobile Workforce Enablement
• SR & ED Management Consulting
• Professional IT Staff Augmentation
• Microsoft Online Services
  • Microsoft BPOS
• SharePoint Consulting

Solutions | Microsoft Online Services | Microsoft BPOS

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is an extension of the enterprise collaboration and communication tools from Microsoft®. As a SaaS or Software as a Service, Microsoft BPOS does not require your business to invest or allocate hardware resources or IT resources to deploy and maintain your business’ collaboration and communication infrastructure.

Microsoft BPOS is a hosted online service, running from world-class data centers from Microsoft®, which provides your organization with the technology to communicate, collaborate and access business-critical information. The hosted online services have no upfront costs and can be set up and running quickly – letting your organization focus on building your business with a powerful suite of productivity tools.

As a Microsoft® business partner, Betach Solutions will work with your organization to get your business running with the collaboration and communication tools using Microsoft BPOS. The Microsoft BPOS includes the following productivity tools:

• Default 5 GB mailbox per user; mailboxes can be configured up to 25 GB
• Email, shared calendar, shared tasks and contacts
• Spam filtering and antivirus capabilities via Microsoft Forefront Online Security for Exchange
• Support for Microsoft Office Outlook®, Outlook Anywhere, and Outlook Web Access
• Support for Windows Mobile® 6.0 devices and other Exchange ActiveSync® 12 devices
• Low-cost "deskless worker" offer for workers who use a PC and messaging services on a limited basis

• Portal, collaboration, content management, site search and forms capabilities
• Single location to share documents, contacts, calendars and tasks
• Offline access to documents on the service from Outlook
• Roll-up views of calendars and tasks across multiple lists and sites
• Blog site templates that support article posting, reader comments and RSS feed generation
• Low-cost "deskless worker" offer for workers who use a PC and collaboration services on a limited basis

• Instant messaging with text-based chat using Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 client
• Seamless presence awareness enabling users to check another user’s availability on the network
• Presence information shared across Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook and SharePoint sites
• Users can connect directly to the service over the Internet without RAS or VPN connections

• Web-client support for remote attendee flexibility
• Interactive application/desktop sharing and whiteboard tools
• Active speaker video switching, multi-party video and multi-party VoIP/audio
• Rich media presentations, native video conferencing, high-fidelity recording and webcam capabilities

As a hosted service by Microsoft®, you have a peace of mind knowing that experts are managing your IT needs, ensuring that your data is backed up and that the latest updates are applied. A single administrative panel — with consoles for provisioning, usage, monitoring and support — enables simple and centralized management. And your users can enjoy the convenience of a single sign-on to access all their hosted services.

Each Microsoft® data center, located strategically throughout the world, houses a highly reliable complex of equipment that provides seamless connectivity to the Microsoft Online suite of services. This global network of geo-redundant data centers provides around-the-clock access to your business-critical collaboration services, and helps keep your data safe.

Businesses around the world can take advantage of Microsoft Online Services. In addition to the United States, services are offered in 19 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Customers can choose to have Microsoft Online web portals and sign-in tools display in one of five languages: English, French, German, Japanese or Spanish.

For more information about enabling your business with Microsoft Online Services, Contact Us and we’ll be happy to give you a demo and work with you to create a work plan/approach that suites your needs.