e-mail is for most businesses today the most essential mission-critical tool for achieving maximum productivity. The increasingly important role of e-mail has intensified, altered workflow, and accelerated the pace of business. In the wake of these changes, employee expectations have also risen. Today, they look for rapid and efficient access to e-mail, calendars, attachments, task lists, contact information and more - whether they are sitting at a computer at their desks or entering data into their Blackberries out in the field.

In trying to meet these expectations , IT professionals, must strike a balance between user needs, system costs and security. Enterprise security requirements have grown in complexity as the need for email has increased. Today, IT departments must contend with continually mutating spam and viruses, noncompliance issues, and e-mail interception and tampering. the potential damage from natural and man-made disasters is also a major challenge.

Although security is a top priority, cost must also be factored into the equation. Time, money, and resource constraints are a fact of life that IT departments must confront while expected to do more with less. This means that IT professionals must choose a messaging system that addresses the needs of both the enterprise and the employee and that is cost-effective to deploy and administer.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is designed specifically to address these needs and delivers the advanced protection your organization demands, the accessibility your users want, and the operational efficiency your IT department requires.

Built-in protection

Exchange Server 2007 offers built-in protective technologies to keep your business moving, reduce spam and viruses, enable confidential communications, and help your company to be compliant.

Benefits:

• Keeps e-mail flowing with enterprise-class availability and reliability
• Helps protect valuable data from the harmful effects of spam and viruses
• Provides trusted communications within the organization automatically and without added cost or complexity
• Simplifies regulatory compliance while meeting the needs of employees, compliance managers, and messaging administrators

Anywhere Access

With Exchange Server 2007, employees get Anywhere Access to their e-mail, voice mail, calendars, and contacts using a variety of clients and devices.

Benefits:

• Increases the productivity of today’s employees who require the ability to respond quickly at home, work, or on the go
• Offers employees a single inbox to access all of their important communications — including voice mail, fax, and e-mail — without having to purchase and maintain separate systems
• Delivers a fast, seamless, and familiar Microsoft Office Outlook experience using clients and devices with no additional software or services - only a telephone or internet connection is required
• Improves collaboration and productivity by making it easier to find and share data, documents, and schedules from anywhere

Operational efficiency

Exchange Server 2007 allows new levels of operational efficiency by providing capabilities that optimize hardware and networking investments and by offering features to improve administrator productivity.

Benefits:

• Uses hardware, software, and the network more efficiently by relying on x64 computing power and bandwidth-optimizing routing algorithms
• Improves administrator productivity by making it easier to troubleshoot problems, and automate tasks
• Facilitates deployment by offering automatic client connections, a new server roles-based architecture, and improved diagnostics and monitoring
• Simplifies integration of Exchange Server data within line-of-business applications and third-party solutions via new Exchange Web Services

The Outlook experience

In addition to benefits and capabilities described above, Exchange Server 2007 offers the best integration with the broadest range of clients. Exchange Server supports a complete Outlook experience, from Outlook on the desktop to Outlook Web Access, Outlook Mobile, and the new Outlook Voice Access, a feature of Exchange Unified Messaging. Exchange Server also can be integrated with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and other Office applications and can be used with third-party systems and devices.