What will Hosted Exchange do for you?
Hosted Exchange Boosts Productivity & Mobilizes Your Workforce!
Microsoft Exchange is an email program with numerous collaboration features leading to greater productivity in the workplace. Employees can send email and share contacts and calendars, simplifying the process of scheduling meetings. What’s more, Exchange offers the benefit of anywhere, anytime access to email and these shared resources, including through mobile devices, making it a must have application for small and medium businesses.
Microsoft Exchange has been used in large organizations for years . Concentric makes the same features available to small and medium sized business without the expense and complexity of maintaining an Exchange server internally. IT personnel are not required to set-up and provide on-going maintenance and upgrades, and there is no hardware or software to buy!.
- Shared Calendaring and Contacts: Give your employees the ability to schedule meetings, events, and resources by viewing everyone’s current schedule and commitments. Provide shared address books that all of your employees can view, regardless of location.
Scheduling Assistant with Office Outlook 2007 110 KB | 300 KB
- Mobile Access: Give key employees access to their mobile devices and keep them in sync with their calendars, email and contacts. Apple iPhone, BlackBerry® and Microsoft® ActiveSync®mobile solutions enable your employees to access mail, calendars, contacts, and tasks wherever they are.
Mobile Productivity with Exchange ActiveSync in Exchange Server 2007 110 KB | 300 KB
- Web Access: Outlook® Web Access synchronizes your Outlook email, calendars, contacts, and more with the server, making it available securely through any web browser.
E-mail and Meeting Experience with Outlook Web Access 2007 110 KB | 300 KB
- Instant Messaging: With Business Messenger, you get the peace of mind that your workforce is conducting instant messaging through secure and private connections. Easily add co-workers to your contact list through a simple point-and-click interface.
- Business Continuity: No more worries over data loss from drive failure or a catastrophic event. Hosted Exchange synchronizes all Outlook data with the Exchange server for easy retrieval.
| Hosted Exchange 2007 |
With Exchange |
Concentric Basic Email (POP3) |
Competitor Basic Email |
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Mobile Devices Support: Automatically sync your email, calendars and contacts wirelessly with iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Treo and other devices to increase efficiency and eliminate duplicate emails and calendar entries. |
Yes |
No |
No |
Spam Protection: Hosted Exchange protects your business from spam and malware with Concentric’s enhanced Junk and Virus Filtering Protection. Concentric’s propriety filtering technology is self learning and updates itself multiple times a day, delivering superior results over the standard Microsoft Exchange’s built in filtering or “free” solutions such as SPAM Assassin. Our “smart filters” are included at no additional charge while other services charge extra for a similar level of protection. |
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Premium Trainable Filtering allows users to “train” this unique filter to further improve accuracy based on the exact type of email you receive. Learn more. |
Optional |
Optional |
Not Available |
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Everywhere Access: Access your company’s email, files, calendars, contacts, and tasks securely from any web browser or your mobile device. With real time synchronization your files are always in sync: no need to file emails twice or manage calendar entries on different calendars. |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Live US-based telephone and e-mail technical support is available M-F 7 am to Midnight EST for the primary account contact.
Optional premium support available 24 X 7 for multiple contacts within one account and step-by-step walk through support. Ask about our full support options. |
Yes |
Yes |
Often offshore support |
Files Backed Up Offsite: You have peace of mind and protection from disaster. All data in Outlook is available online anytime and can easily be restored to a new computer, hard drive, or mobile device. |
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| All client connections are provided over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the same security used for online banking. |
Yes |
Yes |
Some |
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Hosted Exchange 2007 supports Windows and Mac platforms. Outlook 2007 and Entourage 2008 are included. |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Why Choose Concentric for Hosted Exchange?
Concentric delivers all of the core benefits of Microsoft Exchange, plus important differentiators:
Rock-Solid Reliability: Clustered servers housed in our state-of-the-art data center with redundant Internet connections and backup generator power.
- Redundant, high performance architecture
- Redundant Active Directory domain controllers
- Multiple layers of hardened physical security
- Redundant network backbones
Advanced Junk Mail and Virus protection: Concentric's enhanced Junk and Virus filtering protects your business from spam and malware at no additional charge. Others charge extra for a similar level of protection.
- Self learning Concentric's propriety filtering technology is self-learning and updates itself multiple times a day
- Superior results over the standard Microsoft Exchange's built-in filtering or "free" solutions such as SPAM Assassin.
Secure Instant Messaging: Provides secure chat capability among co-workers without the security risks of a public chat service.
- Easily add co-workers to your contact list with a simple point-and-click interface.
- Chat "presence" indicator and customizable status messages.
Simplified user and account management: The customer Gateway provides easy-to-use web-based administrative controls to easily manage additions, changes or updates with point-and-click simplicity. No advanced technical skills needed.
- Detailed FAQs and implementation information
- Outlook auto-configuration support
- Point-and-click user administration from the customer Gateway for all hosting services
Hybrid Email allowing a combination of standard (POP3) and Exchange mailboxes on your domain.
Support and Maintenance
- Live U.S.-based telephone and email technical support (M-F 7:00 a.m. to midnight ET ) for account administrator
- Optional Premium support 24x7 for all users on an account
Competitor Comparison:
| Compare Hosted Exchange Providers |
Concentric |
Typical Competitor |
| Email and Collaboration |
Included |
Included |
Enhanced Junk Mail Filtering
Self-learning and auto updating multiple times a day |
Included |
Add-On - $2/user |
| Custom Trainable Junk Mail Filters |
Exclusive -
Add-On |
No |
Instant Business Messaging
Secure Business Chat |
Exclusive - Included |
Add-On Microsoft OCS
$2.50 to $7.95/user/month |
Hybrid Email
Mix Business Standard and Exchange Mailboxes |
Yes |
Most do not or charge an Add-On fee |
| US-Based Support (Standard and Premium) |
Yes |
Most do not |
| Clustered Redundant Infrastructure based on Microsoft HMC (designed to scale to one million mailboxes) |
Yes |
Most do not |
Pooled Storage
Storage pooled accross all exchange users |
Yes |
Most do not |
Additional Hosted Exchange Resources
Getting Started with Hosted Exchange
We Make it Easy to Switch to Hosted Exchange!
Just point and click to set up and manage Hosted Exchange users through our easy to use web-based control panel. You will also get a free implementation consultation call for new customers where we provide advice on the best implementation plan for you based on your unique requirements, offer the appropriate FAQs, and even walk you through setting up your first user.
Getting started is as easy as 1-2-3
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Select and sign up for a Hosted Exchange package and choose the options for your business in consultation with our experienced sales team.
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Set up users through our easy-to-use control panel.
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Download Outlook® and configure automatically with Auto-discover following our simple step-by-step guide (show me). If desired, you can import your existing Outlook data following the steps in our FAQs.
Our support team is available to assist you at any point. Although most customers choose to set up users and migrate on their own, you can hire our Professional Services team to complete your migration for you quickly and efficiently.
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Pricing and Features
Competitive Hosted Exchange Pricing with Enterprise Features
Hosted Exchange 2007 offers all the benefits of Microsoft Exchange and Outlook at an affordable per-seat price.
| HOSTED EXCHANGE Per User Pricing |
Web Exchange |
Exchange Professional |
Exchange Executive |
Exchange Presidential |
| Monthly Service Fee |
$7.95 |
$10.95 |
$14.95 |
$34.95 |
| Mailbox disk storage |
250MB |
2GB |
5GB |
10GB |
| Outlook Accessible Mailbox (MAPI) |
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| Outlook 2007 Software |
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| Outlook Web Access (OWA) |
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| XO Standard Junk Mail and Virus Filtering |
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| Add-Ons |
| XO Premium Junk Mail and Virus Filtering |
$2.00 |
$2.00 |
$2.00 |
$2.00 |
| BlackBerry ($39.95/user setup) |
N/A |
$9.95 |
$9.95 |
$9.95 |
| iPhone/Windows Mobile (ActiveSync) |
N/A |
$2.95 |
$2.95 |
$2.95 |
| Additional Exchange Storage |
$5.00/100MB |
$5.00/100MB |
$5.00/100MB |
$5.00/100MB |
| Hosted Exchange Packages |
All Hosted Exchange Packages include the Exchange Professional mailbox with 2GB of storage. Additional users can be added. |
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10 Pack |
25 Pack |
50 Pack |
100 Pack |
| Number of Users |
10 |
25 |
50 |
100 |
| Total Exchange Mailbox Storage (pooled) |
20GB |
50GB |
100GB |
200GB |
| Monthly Service Fee Per User |
$10.50 |
$9.95 |
$9.50 |
$9.25 |
| Monthly Price |
$105.00 ($10.50/user) |
$ 248.75 ($9.95/user) |
$475.00 ($9.50/user) |
$925 ($9.25/user) |
| *Requires Term Commitment |
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All Hosted Exchange Plans include:
- FREE Junk Mail and Virus Filtering
- Enhanced Junk and Virus filtering protection. Proprietary (self learning) filtering technology updates itself multiple times a day delivering superior results to Microsoft Exchange’s built in filtering and “free” solutions.
- Secure and SSL-Encrypted Business Class Instant Messaging. Communicate via secure chat. Use Concentric's Adobe Air based client or one of several XMPP compatible chat clients.
Hosted Exchange Benefits
Features Included with Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2007
- Outlook® 2007 or Entourage® 2008 software for Email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, Journal
- Tasks and Task Delegation
- Public Folders
- Email aliases
- Distribution Lists
- Group Calendaring and Scheduling
- Shared Contacts, Calendars, Folders
- Task Delegation
- Offline Address Book (OAB)
- Global Address Lists (GAL)
- Domain Aliases
- Daily back-ups
- Secure mailbox access via Outlook and Web Access (OWA)
- Blackberry® and Windows Mobile options available
Tools, Maintenance and Support
- Live US-based telephone and e-mail technical support is available M-F 7 am to Midnight EST for the primary account contact.
- Optional premium support available24 X 7 for multiple contacts within account, step-by-step walk through support, premium support queue with 30-second typical average speed to answer.
- How-To Guide
- Full service Professional Services available on project basis
- Batch upload of users, optional batch import of PSTs
- Outlook auto-configuration
- Online Support in the Concentric Center
Fast, Secure Infrastructure
- Connect over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Clustered servers with no single point of failure
- Redundant backbone network connection
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