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December 16, 2009

Microsoft Online Services Advances Blackberry Integration

Announced today at Microsoft Academy Live, Microsoft Online Services now has a true multi-tenant BlackBerry offer for BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite).

Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) provides Exchange Server, SharePoint, Office Communications and Live Meeting all through an online hosted platform at a shockingly affordable rate.  For only $10 per user per month, organizations are finally able to push their core technology applications up to the cloud allowing them further options to control their IT budget, reduce their management time and improve their overall business productivity.

After today's announcement, which will provide advanced integration for BlackBerry users starting mid-January, organizations will be able to take advantage of:

  • True multi-tenant platform
  • Hosted BlackBerry licenses
  • Support from Microsoft Online Services team
  • On-boarding time 2-3 days
  • Integrated 30 day free trial

What's even better, is that Microsoft provides a full-functioning 30-day trial of their Business Productivity Online Suite allowing customers to try the product before they invest their time and money into making the move to Online Services.

December 01, 2009

InfinIT Releases POR Engagement Promotion for Microsoft Online Services

InfinIT has partnered directly with the Microsoft Online Services team through a special API program to help promote and evangelize for their newest cloud hosting platform release, BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite)

As a part of this API program, InfinIT has released a special Partner of Record (POR) BPOS promotion to help customers control their IT budgets and offset both the monthly service and upfront migration costs.

InfinIT is offering over $7,000 in savings to help make this a viable decision for both small and larger organizations.

BPOS Promotional Offer Benefits Include:

  • Select CompleteCare+ Premium or Ultimate package and monthly cost is reduced to include BPOS (a $3,000 value)
  • Take advantage of trying our expert IT management services first hand with one free month of any CompleteCare service package (Pro, Premium or Ultimate - minimum value of $1250)
  • First day of BPOS migration costs included for free (a $1200 value)
  • All CompleteCare+ setup fees waived (a $1500 value)

What Are The Requirements?

What's the catch? No surprises, no hidden costs. Just meet these three requirements and we'll honor all of the incredible IT savings listed above.

  • Minimum of 25 users required
  • Must select InfinIT as the official Partner of Record when purchasing Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite
  • 12-month minimum commitment of Microsoft BPOS and CompleteCare+ service package

Read more details about InfinIT BPOS Promotion

Over the past few months of testing the product, migrating our own and customers' environment up to the cloud, we've found many tips, tricks and strategies to helping customers ensure a smooth migration. It's definitely a big decision for many organizations who have a stable, working infrastructure to pick up and move their network online. 

A few instant ROI benefits customers have seen so far in moving their core applications to Microsoft Online Services:

  • Reduced management time: Customers can manage their entire environment through a user-friendly web console, which reduces the amount of on-staff resources required to manage complex Exchange and SharePoint environments
  • Instant disaster recovery: Why invest the capital upfront to build it yourself when Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in a high-performing, instantly scalability, geo-redundant infrastructure?
  • Access to latest software releases: One of the downsides of implementing and managing everything in-house in your own office or data center is you're always a few steps behind the latest tech releases.  Looking to take advantage of Exchange Server 2010 or MOSS 2007? Get all of your hardware, software and licensing costs rolled into one flat manageable cost per user.  And when the newest releases come out, you'll be first on board to take advantage of all the benefits.