Exchange Hosting For Fun And Profit

Having an increasingly mobile workforce, firms have been searching for ways to accommodate their personnel. One of the problems has been e-mail. Although most e-mail users look at their e-mail as essentially mobile, the reality is that company e-mail is commonly set up to require a particular computer or laptop be utilized in the interest of security. Also, the business can more easily authenticate that the person is actually working on business projects. However, exchange hosting is starting to make changes in how companies do things.

Exchange hosting is different from standard company e-mail in that the servers are off-site. That is, rather than depending on internal servers to deal with a company's e-mail, the company rents space on an external server. The trade off is security versus flexibility; by keeping the e-mail on internal servers a company can ensure that any e-mails between employees are readable only by the other employees, but those same e-mails cannot reach employees that are in the field or work from home. This means also that a dedicated service can run the company's e-mail, possibly freeing up some of the IT Department for other things.

It also allows an organization some opportunities to utilizing its e-mail that it might not have had prior to this. The largest advantage is that the e-mail isn't taking up space on internal servers, and is being archived off-site. This frees up space for projects more pertinent to the company's business, especially as e-mail tends to pile up with time. Also, technical support is always just a phone call or e-mail away, rather than dependent on the computer department's hours. It also allows for additional options that the computer department may just not have the time to implement but seem to be requested frequently.

Depending on your company's needs, exchange hosting may be able to raise productivity. There are a number of benefits to it, and it provides you with more control over how e-mail is dealt with while, at the same time, making it possible for someone else to manage it.

It also releases space on your internal servers for more significant projects. By taking advantage of some kind of hosted exchange, your organization will be able to send agents into the field and be able to take full advantage of telecommuting, allowing your employees full freedom to get the job done, making the organization run much more efficiently, and an efficient business is a profitable one.