In case you are not aware, below are the basics of Office 365
Minimum 5 seats
Billing is handled 100% by Microsoft nearly always on a credit card
Our fee’s comes straight from Microsoft and do NOT affect end user pricing at all (other than labour cost to handle the planning and migration which we bill directly)
The key to the cost effectiveness is the massive reduction of IT costs. Because Microsoft is hosting the services they are VERY reliable and have eliminated, server costs, server setup/maintenance costs, upgrade costs, backup costs,…
If you select a package with Office 2010 (soon 2013) you receive a FULL local install and then free 24 hour support from Microsoft.
Seats for just Hosted Exchange email begin at $4 per month per user and include:
25GB of storage
Unlimited domains
Unlimited email alias’
Full Outlook Web Access
Microsoft FrontBridge AntiSpam and AntiVirus (hosted on-line)
Full cell phone support including Blackberry Enterprise
24 hour English, North American phone support, with waits of < 10 minutes to access knowledgeable techs
VERY easy to use web administration
There is an even less expensive “Kiosk” seat at just $2 per month that gets you only Outlook Web Access (cannot be used with Outlook) and 1GB of mail, but this is typically used by field workers after “the office” has their $4/month accounts up and running
There is a $24 per month per seat option that includes:
the full email client as spec’d above
FIVE copies of the current version of Office Pro+ (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, Lync Client) PER seat and those extra copies are expected to be used on home PC’s, tablets…
Microsoft Lync which is corporate Chat, Video Conferencing and Presence