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Hosted Exchange and BlackBerry- Enterprise Communications for SMBs

by Sumeet Sabharwal

BlackBerryThe iPhone may be the center of attention at the smart phone party right now, but when it’s time to get down to business, the leader remains the BlackBerry. Even the top executive in the country famously has his own souped up model. The BlackBerry has become ubiquitous in companies all over America, and it’s not an exaggeration to suggest that business would halt if people’s Blackberries stopped working (the proof being a notorious outage of a couple years ago).

With the entrenchment of the BlackBerry in the business world, it’s surprising how few SMBs have fully integrated it with their larger business communications solution. To put it another way, if your employees use Blackberries and you aren’t using hosted BlackBerry services along with Microsoft Exchange Server with Active Sync, you’re missing out on some big advantages.

The BlackBerry rose to dominate the business world primarily based on one killer app: it was and still is an easy to use e-mail appliance that fits in your pocket. It’s funny and not a little surprising then that millions of business people use this handy little e-mail machine to access an e-mail system that it’s totally separate and disconnected from their corporate mail. They go through a complicated daily process of forwarding mail from desktop to hand held and back again, with multiple copies of documents in multiple places and creating a management headache that magnifies geometrically with any serious volume of mail to deal with. The solution to this is by using Exchange and Active Sync in conjunction with hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).

The reasons for SMBs to go with a hosted Exchange service are as numerous as they are compelling. High availability and performance, centralized communications, and backup and security considerations are just a few of the benefits of a hosted Exchange service. As compared to owning and operating an Exchange server in house, managed and hosted Exchange minimizes the cost of entry, and mitigates the cost of operation with 24/7 support and robust network infrastructure. Even without considering the price of BlackBerry server licenses and support, it becomes prohibitively expensive to manage in house.

Top quality Exchange hosts let you add hosted BES capabilities to your existing Exchange deployment, adding significant value to daily operations. Broadly speaking- employees with more and better access to critical e-mail, contacts, and calendar information can do a better job. Meetings and calendar info can be changed and updated on the fly, important e-mails can be accessed from anywhere, and all key data is synchronized seamlessly between devices.

If your employees use their BlackBerry devices to access external e-mail for business use, you not only run the risk of legal exposure and corporate sabotage, but you are missing out on powerful efficiencies than can make a difference in a tough, cut throat business environment. Native Active Sync support makes it effortless to integrate BlackBerry Enterprise Server with your corporate e-mail. To coin an old candy commercial, hosted Exchange and hosed BlackBerry services are two great tastes that taste great together.

Add BlackBerry Enterprise server support to your hosted Exchange plan today and get 2 months of service, absolutely free! No setup fees or hidden charges, just great BlackBerry service for 2 months at no charge. Don’t miss out! Order today and take advantage of this limited time offer!

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