What is Microsoft Exchange?

Microsoft Exchange is the software that powers all the collaborative features inside Microsoft Outlook. More than 65% of all businesses users use Exchange and Outlook to send and receive email, share calendars contacts, tasks and documents, and use a scheduling assistant to coordinate meetings and events.

Inatrex’s hosted Exchange service provides you with these powerful collaboration capabilities, without the pain of having to install, configure and manage your own “in-house” Exchange server, a costly and time-consuming endeavor. You simply pay a flat monthly fee, and we manage everything for you. We even provide you with a free copy of MS Outlook 2007 (or Entourage 2008) to use on your desktop. You can also use Outlook Web Access from any web browser for the same productivity tools when you are away from your desk.

Why Use Microsoft Exchange?

Most small and mid-sized businesses use email as the primary communication channel with their customers, colleagues and suppliers. However, many of these businesses stop there, missing out on productivity-boosting features such as sharing calendars, contact information and files.

By upgrading to the world’s most popular business messaging software, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, you can significantly raise your team’s efficiency for only a small monthly fee.
Simply put, Microsoft Exchange is a collaborative messaging server that stores your businesses email, calendars, address books and files centrally, so that they are available 24x7 and can be shared among your team, if you wish. These features and usability make it the messaging system of choice for most Fortune 500 corporations.

Advanced Features

Companies running Microsoft Exchange as their email server typically use Microsoft Outlook 2007 as their email ‘client’. Among the many advanced features of this program are the ability to:

• Securely access email remotely – via the Web or a mobile device such as a BlackBerry, Windows Mobile Smartphone, iPhone or Palm Treo
  
• View colleagues’ up-to-date calendars and schedule meetings
  
• Assign and manage company tasks on central ‘to do’ lists
  
• Manage and access employee and customer contact information 24x7
  
• Share documents among team members allowing them to work on the most current version

Microsoft Exchange is a quantum leap above the basic POP3 or IMAP4 email systems that are provided by your Internet service provider or web hosting provider and will allow your employees to become much more productive as they will have constant access to their email, calendars and contacts, as well as important files and information.

Basic POP and IMAP email systems, which are currently used by many businesses for accessing email, are more suited to home and personal use, rather than business use as these systems were not designed to include the broader, richer collaborative tools that Microsoft Exchange has made possible.