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Why Managed Email

Our clients often tell us that managing their firms MS Exchange service is the biggest drain on their IT resources, and frequently causes operational headaches. Our solution to this is to offer Managed Corporate Email available on both public and private cloud platforms.

We regard both of our Managed Exchange solutions as the very best available. When Accesspoint manage the implementation we can ensure a pain-free migration to the managed service platform by preparing fully on the client's side and liaising with the data centre technical teams on your behalf.

This includes:

Checking the speed and reliability of your internet connection
Recommending and implementing improved connections when appropriate including backup lines
Reviewing your existing email set up, backing up mailboxes and migrating them to the new managed service
Helping you set up the new service including shared calendars, SharePoint for document libraries and collaborative tools, and making sure that mobile access is operating.
Safely decommissioning Exchange from your existing server when appropriate and helping you recycle the old server when economic to do so

Our clients find our assistance with moving their email especially valuable because we all know that in the business world, even with software-as-a-service, it is seldom as easy as "click here". That said, when the managed service is set up, the real advantages can be enjoyed.

The benefits of our Managed Exchange platforms include:

Management within a secure data centre that you are encouraged to visit. This is sometimes referred to as a private cloud solution.
The drain on your IT resource is immediately stemmed and reliability is vastly improved
Full MS Outlook 2007 is included in the monthly cost
No need to worry about upgrades, security patches and service packs.
Excellent mobile access for BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows Mobile devices
Windows SharePoint, which is ideal for storing documents centrally. This means that you no longer need to clog up exchange by emailing multiple copies of the same document around your organisation
Outlook 2007 Web Access, which has a vastly improved interface over previous versions
MessageLabs anti-virus, anti-spam and image control, which are updated hourly
Payment is on a per user per month basis, which means that there is no major capital outlay

Email from anywhere anytime for your fee earning and critical support staff with Outlook Web.

For the smaller legal enterprise that doesn't need the massed battalions of MS Exchange, Accesspoint has its own business email service hosted on the Amazon cloud.

You don't get the full functionality of the Managed Exchange services, but at significantly lower cost you do get: