No one wants to go slower. The cloud is here. Learn the technology or become irrelevant. The utility of cloud computing provides better productivity at a fraction of traditional costs. http://www.matrixforce.com/cloud-computing
10. Office 365 E3 Features
$20 per user per month
Exchange
50 GB Mailbox
Unlimited Archive
Built-in Filtering
Lync
Presence
Instant Messaging
Video Conferencing
Office
OfficeWeb Apps
Office 2013 Pro Plus
Up to 5 devices / user
SharePoint
1 TB OneDrive
15 GB Free Shared
Additional .20/GB
11. Office 365 E1 Features
$8 per user per month
Exchange
50 GB Mailbox
Unlimited Archive
Built-in Filtering
Lync
Presence
Instant Messaging
Video Conferencing
Office
OfficeWeb Apps
SharePoint
1 TB OneDrive
15 GB Free Shared
Additional .20/GB
12. Broad Support
iPhone / iPad
Safari / Mac Office
Smartphones / Tablets
Chrome / Firefox
Windows / Surface
Internet Explorer
Blackberry phones
Enterprise Services
Keep up with technology or become batteries and slaves. It’s called disruptive business models now. Tell early bar coding story.
Vendor mis-configuration of network/storage/virtualization. Backup, recovery, and replication issues. Limited knowledge and large, complex, and highly dynamic environment – still various multiple systems and difficult integration.
The world has changed greatly and so has technology. It’s difficult to gain competitive advantage and costly to keep up. So why do we keep buying new servers with planned obsolescence of a few years with the costly maintenance and follow-on software upgrades?
Things like e-mail, file storage, messaging, and productivity software are now utilities just like running water or electricity. Versus legacy Enterprise Agreement for software licensing at a landed cost of over $300 per desktop, escape the hardware and maintenance too for $240 per USER per year (5 desktops per user).
Going direct with Microsoft bypasses middle-men, added cost and complexity, with no lag in new services for third-parties to subsequently provide upgrades.
Always current versions – now 2012 or 2013. Integrated address list. Cheap combined compliant file storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
Rights management and Data Loss Prevention are NOT included.
This approach flattens cash outlay and lowers assets, providing more features and benefits without the hidden labor cost of maintenance for a conservative 34% savings over 10 years. See cost comparison handout for details. Note, trend remains when adjusting for inflation over time.
Enjoy greater security across the world with greater capacity that we could otherwise achieve and seamless presence, e-mail, and document communication on one consolidated system.
Built-in rights management for confidential messages, standard data loss prevention rules, and litigation hold with e-discovery portal.
Disadvantage separate password for online services and users must recreate signature, rules, color/classification, and delegation/sharing. Outlook, Smartphones, and Tablets use auto-discover for setup so users should be self-sufficient if they know their e-mail address and password.
4 - 8 weeks per site depending upon scheduling and availability of each business unit. Forward from Archerwell.com to archerwell-na.com move to Office 365 and other domains added with
Starting in mid-April, Microsoft announced Active Directory synchronization in it’s cloud virtual server environment. After worldwide domain consolidation, this option offers the advantage of escaping multiple directory synchronization around the world with the same equipment/maintenance and redundancy cost savings. There are many new features and services with the next prevalent of Intune for Microsoft updates and anti-malware, third-party updates, and mobile management. The offering above is the most relevant to Archer at the current time.
The current approach is two dedicated servers each with having separate Internet providers for directory synchronization. Going forward if you add domain controllers to Azzure as virtual machines then you’ve eliminated the complexity, equipment, and additional ISP connection.
Consolidated system, graphic showing 35% savings, Compliance with money backed guarantee, x months transition