MTS Allstream Collaboration Suite - Hosted Microsoft Exchange

Special Offer to CATAAlliance Members

Designed to streamline your business communications, Allstream's Messaging and Collaboration Suite (ACS™) allows secure access to e-mail, calendar, tasks, folders, events, and documents from any access point, at any time. It will help transform business interactions granting organizations the ability to share applications and documents and support for ever increasing reporting, compliance and legislation requirements such as, Sarbanes Oxley and the equivalents issued by the Canadian Securities Administrators. It also provides secure and auditable instant messaging and video conferencing capabilities at sustainable and repeatable cost with guaranteed service levels.

The Collaboration Suite (ACS™) is built on the hosted, Microsoft® Modular Messaging and Collaboration Platform; it enables productive and efficient methods for collaboration while hardening the security and reliability of messaging infrastructure - and it protects clients from the costs of upgrades, support and operations of messaging and collaboration applications and environments

Components and Applications to Choose From

Allstream Collaboration Suite is a collection of applications, including hosted Microsoft Exchange, Live Communications Server® (LCS), and Microsoft Sharepoint® that together provide businesses the ability to collaborate securely from any location. It is a modular solution, in that; each component can be contracted for separately on a per seat/per month basis.

Companies can benefit from:

• Hosted Microsoft® Exchange
• Journaling and Archiving
• Anti-virus and Anti-spam
• Guaranteed uninterrupted mail
• As a hosted solution, there are no upfront infrastructure expenditures and ongoing costs that are easily budgeted on a per-user basis
• Hosted Live Communications Server®
• Hosted Microsoft Sharepoint® Services
• Application and document sharing
• Enterprise Blackberry Services*

MTS Allstream solution also provides:

• Superior security and encryption
• 7X24 365 days bilingual help desk support
• Disaster Recovery Services
• Self-service and self-management and provisioning capabilities avoiding the need for additional IT resources
• Multi-party videoconferencing for superior communicationbetween remote locations
• Ease of use through a simple, integrated, "one-click" interface
• ACS is integrated with familiar Microsoft applications,therefore training is minimal

Questions to Ask and Concerns to Raise

Do you presently have the following business and operational concerns around your e-mail infrastructure and have you asked some of these questions?

• Unable to obtain the proper budget for large capital investment such as software licensing.o Ever increasing maintenance costs and varying unpredictable support costs.
• How do you currently manage the upkeep and maintenance of your Software and Client access licenses?
• Limited IT staff available to handle e-mail downtime, virus and SPAM. Do you have an IT administrator or do you outsource all your IT requirements?
• Explosive Email growth and usage within your company.
• E-mail migration concerns - both financial and technical
• Increasing reporting, compliance and legislation requirements? Certification regulations such as, Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 and the equivalents issued by the Canadian Securities Administrators?
• Do you have storage requirements and how are you handling the over-sized disk requirements of mailbox sizes?
  • What are you doing to make sure it is backed up properly?
  • How do you manage the disk requirement?
  • What are your Disaster Recovery Plans?
• Remote access, wireless access, and internet access have all been developed considerably in recent years…how do your customers keep up? Are you using IVPN?a) If yes, for what servicesb) If yes, is it cumbersome to maintain?
• Do you have a help desk (i.e. what do users do when they have a problem logging in from home at 8:00 PM)?

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If you have similar concerns and questions, then please contact Vince Sacca at vince.sacca@mtsallstream.com or at 613-688-8604 to review your requirements.