1. SaaS Exchange 2010:
Why make the move?
Why Gartner ranks Exchange 2010 as the top performing messaging application for E-mail
The past year brought substantial progress in the long march toward provision of e-mail
as a cloud service, but most activity still centers on premises-based offerings. Against this
background, Gartner evaluates eight providers of e-mail systems (both cloud and premises
based).
The recommendations of industry analyst heavyweights such as Gartner save significant
time and cost in the research and analysis of ICT departments themselves.).
Evaluation Criteria Weighting
Sales Strategy Standard
Offering (Product) Strategy Standard
Geographic Strategy Low
Innovation High
Market Responsiveness and Track Record Standard
Marketing Execution Standard
Overall Viability (Business Unit, Financial, Strategy, Organization) High
Providers reviewed: IBM, Google, Microsoft, Mirapoint, Novell, Open-Xchange, VMware/Zimbra and Xandros/
Scalix.
Rankings available: were Strong Negative, Caution, Promising, Positive, Strong Positive
Microsoft Exchange 2010 was the only provider to achieve a Strong Positive ranking
Gartner comments on Microsoft Exchange 2010 (August 2010):
Exchange 2010, which is starting to increase its market penetration, promises improvements in
storage efficiencies, high availability and disaster recovery, as well as more granular administration
control and user self-service options. We expect adoption to follow the normal trajectory of previous
Exchange releases, peaking at 50% by the end of 2012… in 1H11 it will update Exchange Online with
the 2010 version of Exchange, which is better suited to working in a multitenant environment.
The current 2007 (Exchange Online) cloud release lacks some essential features, such as password
synchronization, a health and performance console, multi-mailbox search and end-user password
resetting. Furthermore, simple e-mail administration requests, such as to track a message, forward
mail to an external mail box and disable ActiveSync require submission of a service request to the
Exchange Online help desk, which creates operational inefficiencies for customers.”
QUANTIX COMMENTS
In delivering ExchangeCloud, Quantix has provided the industry recognized leading platform of email systems
delivery as a unique dedicated SaaS service (allowing full integration with ERP, CRM, intranets or other services)
with all the management and resilience benefits of a cloud infrastructure.
For these reasons any organization moving to ExchangeCloud can be 100% sure they have made a sound
strategic investment from both a commercial and a functional perspective.
Read the Gartner report overview here
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