Conventional Approach Downside:
- Need high technical expertise to install and support.
- SMBs cannot afford high-infrastructure cost.
- Companies bleed money supporting the system with huge resource cost, equipment and support contracts required to keep it running.
Modern Hosted Email Approach:
SMB and Non-Profit organizations can leverage the economies of scale of hosted email solutions from large providers like Google (Google Apps) and Yahoo (Zimbra). Both provide Corporate/Enterprise email service for custom domain names but host it on the customer's behalf.
Benefits of Hosted Email Approach:
- Google Apps is a web based email solution. Can be configred to use via browser or via Outlook/Apple Mail.
- Google Apps can be deployed quickly (Usually 1 day).
- Google Apps setup has Zero infrastructure cost.
- Pay per email account (USD $50 / User / Year)
- Very little support required after installation.
Daemon InfoTech has implemented Google Apps solution for many small to medium enterprises and non-profit organizations and continue to provide support at minimal cost to the company. Even some fortune 500 companies have tried and tested this solution for their own corporate implementations.
Google Apps Tutorials & Demos:
Here is a link to Google page showing some of the big fortune 500 companies evaluating and implementing Google Apps email as their primary corporate solution. Google Apps Email Customers.
This short video presentation provides brief introduction to the Google Apps Suite.
This short video is a comprehensive presentation of Google Apps in business environment.
According to a recently released "Forrester Research" report - "Cloud based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users