At an event in San Francisco, Stehpen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, officially announced the launch of two new Online enterprise services, Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
These two subscription-based services are now open to large, small, and medium-sized businesses in the United States, intended to provide users with a new way to purchase, deploy and manage, including Exchange Online is mainly used for desktop and mobile email, calendar management, and management. And can be perfectly integrated with Outlook Web Access, Office Outlook, and SharePoint Online is mainly used for enterprise portals, employee collaboration and communication, search and so on.
Exchange Online and SharePoint are both part of the Microsoft Online Services product line and are purchased separately for . At the same time, Microsoft also provides some other ancillary services:
Office Live Meeting : Web and video conferencing plan, $4.50 per user per month.
Office Communications Online : Office instant messaging plan, $2.50 per user per month.
Exchange Hosted Services : An email security plan for $1.75 (filtering) or $8.6 (archiving) per user per month.
Dynamics CRM Online : Dynamic CRM management program, $39 per user per month.
Enterprises can also buy Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, Office Communications Online and other components of the standard package. $15 per user per month , a savings of $9.25 compared to buying separately.
Microsoft Online Services official website: http://www.microsoft.com/online/default.mspx