I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved with projects that have reviewed Microsoft’s BPOS (and now Office 365) readiness for large enterprise and have also had a chance to speak to some of MS’s largest case studies. I think it is fair to say that with the BPOS service Microsoft has had something of a
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No Comments » For any company that consumes OCS via the Dedicated version of MS Online IntelePeer are now another option to add a SIP trunk to your OCS estate and gain connectivity to landlines/mobiles. I’m not sure how much longer this capability will last in its current format given that MS Online is soon to be deprecated
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After trying out both Google Apps and MS BPOS-S Center Parcs are moving ahead with BPOS-S, migrating away from their on-prem Exchange and Notes platform. Center Parcs wanted to improve coordination of guest activities. The resort operator deployed Google Apps to 250 employees for 18 months. After discovering that it did not provide the enterprise-grade
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Here is an excellent resource for any business thinking of deploying either BPOS-S or BPOS-D from Woody Walton. When we think about Microsoft Online (Cloud) services and specifically about BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), there is sometimes the tendency to shift our thinking too far to one side of the “ease of deployment” equation. Although
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I’ve decided to broaden the scope of the blog to include Collaboration. While I may not have too much commentary on the subject I can at least sign post to some really great resource. If you are interested in Microsoft’s BPOS take a look over at Brett’s Blog. It contains everything you need to know
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