Scenario: Budget constraints

One problem faced by all businesses, now more than ever, is budget constraints. Whilst demand for the latest IT services continues to increase, it's becoming ever more difficult to get CapEx sign off for IT projects.

Solution:

No capital expenditure needed! - all hosted desktops are provided on a simple, per user monthly subscription. This means no capital expenditure is required, all costs are transparent and predictable, and you only pay for what you use.

Scenario: Simplistic  Email & Collaboration functionlaity

Too many businesses are still stuck using simplistic email platforms that don't reflect either the central importance of email communication or the functionality of the technologies available today, but they don't have the resources available to upgrade.

Solution:

Feature-rich Exchange with Outlook 2007 - Hosted Exchange comes with MS Outlook 2007 for free and a set of rich, enterprise-class features such as shared calendars and contacts, public folders, support for BlackBerry and/or iPhone integration, OWA (Outlook Web Access) and much more, provided on a simple, per user, monthly subscription. This means no capital expenditure is required, all costs are transparent and predictable, and you only pay for your actual users.

Scenario: Remote Workers

Businesses of all sizes are increasingly looking to enable remote workers, both those on the road and those wanting to work from home for some or all of their working week. This can present serious challenges to IT teams, who have to provide the platform to make this possible.

Solution:

Anywhere access - Hosted Exchange can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection thanks to OWA (Outlook Web Access) functionality. What's more, we can even integrate and sync your email with your BlackBerry or iPhone, meaning you can have truly mobile access to your ema

Scenario: Business Continuity \ Disaster Recovery

Approximately 80% of businesses that suffer a severe IT failure close within 18 months and, even without such a catastrophe, any unplanned downtime can have a huge financial impact. However, whilst this creates an obvious need for business continuity provisions, building truly resilient, n+1 IT solutions is often prohibitively expensive.

Solution:

Complete security and availability - we take advantage of the economies of scale we enjoy to deliver desktops that are completely secure, backed-up and disaster-proof, with guaranteed availability and 24/7 support from exclusively UK-based teams. Because your data is no longer tied to local hardware, even in the event of, say, an office burglary, all your data is completely safe and your desktops are still immediately accessible.

Scenario: Time Pressures

With so many things to focus on, it's difficult for IT teams to find the time to implement new projects. Given that new solutions require rigorous research, finding reliable partners, lengthy sign-off and procurement processes, learning new technologies, then finally installing, configuring and deploying the solution, it's hardly surprising that this can be painfully cumbersome.

Solution:

Instant, agile IT - Hosted Exchange can be deployed immediately, on any scale - it doesn't require hardware investment or CapEx, nor is it necessary to worry about choosing from multiple vendors or learning any new technologies.

Scenario: Staff over stretched

Most IT teams have to spend a disparate proportion of their time dealing with the day-to-day headaches of managing, maintaining and supporting their users' desktops, leaving them too little time to concentrate on their true function of actively adding value to the business.

Solution:

Let Cloudserve  do the work - with Hosted Exchange, Cloudserve  delivers 99.99% SLA-guaranteed availability, taking care of all maintenance and upgrades, and our exclusively UK-based support teams are available to you 24/7. 
 

Scenario: Multiple locations

Many enterprise businesses have multiple offices/sites and need to maintain a consistent IT infrastructure between them. With the difficulties of mass managing desktop PCs across multiple locations, this consumes a large amount of time and resources.

Solution:

Unified hosted infrastructure - by using centrally hosted email services, you can easily unify email across multiple locations without the hassle and expense of building a multi-site email infrastructure in-house. 
 

Scenario: Compliance

Many businesses, particularly the professions, are subject to increasingly stringent IT regulations. However, retaining vast amounts of email data in order to ensure compliance, as well as the hassles of controlling employee communications, is expensive and management-intensive.

Solution

Central management, optional archiving - Hosted Exchange means all users can be centrally managed, and our optional email archiving features offer a simple, low cost way to ensure compliance with industry regulations. Even for those not subject to stringent regulations, the ability to easily store, search for and retrieve emails can be of huge business benefit.

Scenario: Moving offices

With a traditional internal email system running on servers in-house, moving offices is a headache, for obvious reasons. As well as the physical efforts involved at both ends, email will be unavailable during the move.

Solution

Centrally hosted email - with Hosted Exchange, on the other hand, all email services are run centrally and are always available.

Scenario: No existing IT infrastructure

Starting a business means building things from scratch, and for almost all businesses that will include setting up an email system. With no existing system in place to deliver business class email, this is just another obstacle start-ups have to overcome before they can get up and running.

Solution:

None needed - Hosted Exchange from Cloudserve  runs your business email off our state-of-the-art infrastructure, with no hardware requirements at your end. We'll even provide Microsoft Outlook 2007 to you for free.

Sceanrio: No IT experience

Outside of IT specific businesses, most start-ups will have little or no IT expertise, and probably equally little desire to acquire it. With the myriad other issues requiring attention in order to get a business up and running, IT headaches are the last thing most entrepreneurs want to deal with.

Solution:

None needed - ThinkGrid's model will take the IT pain away! We do all the work of setting up your email accounts for you, and our UK-based support teams are on hand to help 24/7.