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For most businesses today, e-mail is the mission-critical communications tool that allows their people to produce the best results. This greater reliance on e-mail has increased the number of messages sent and received, the variety of work getting done, and even the speed of business itself. Amid this change, employee expectations have also evolved. Today, employees look for rich, efficient access—to e-mail, calendars, attachments, contacts, and more—no matter where they are or what type of device they are using. For IT professionals, delivering a messaging system that addresses these needs must be balanced against other requirements such as security and cost. Enterprise security requirements have become more complex as the demand and use for e-mail has increased. Today, IT departments must contend with e-mail security threats that are wide ranging: continually evolving spam and viruses, noncompliance risks, the vulnerability of e-mail to interception and tampering, in addition to the potential harmful effects of natural and man-made disasters. While security is clearly a priority, IT is ever cognisant of the need to manage cost. Time, money, and resource constraints are a fact of life as IT is made accountable to do more with less. As a result, IT professionals look for a messaging system that addresses both enterprise and employee needs while also being cost-effective to deploy and manage. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 has been designed specifically to meet these challenges and address the needs of the different groups who have a stake in the messaging system. The new capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 deliver the advanced protection your company demands, the anywhere access your people want, and the operational efficiency you, in IT, need. Built-in Protection Exchange Server 2007 offers built-in protective technologies to keep your business moving, reduce spam and viruses, enable confidential communications, and help your company to be compliant. Key Benefits: | • | Keeps communication alive and e-mail flowing with enterprise-class availability and reliability. | | • | Helps safeguard users and the organisation’s valuable data from the harmful effects of spam and viruses. | | • | Provides trusted communications within the organisation automatically and without added cost or complexity. | | • | Simplifies regulatory compliance in a way that supports the different needs of employees, compliance managers, and messaging administrators. |
Anywhere Access With Exchange Server 2007, employees get anywhere access* to their e-mail, voice mail, calendars, and contacts from a variety of clients and devices. Key Benefits: | • | Increases the productivity of today’s employees who require the ability to respond quickly at home, work, or on the go. | | • | Offers employees a single inbox to access all of their important communications—including voice mail, fax, and e-mail—while avoiding the cost and effort of maintaining separate systems. | | • | Delivers a fast, seamless, and familiar Microsoft Office Outlook experience across different devices and clients with no requirement for extra software or services outside of an Internet or basic phone connection. | | • | Improves collaboration and productivity by making it easier to find and share data, documents, and schedules from anywhere. |
*Anywhere access requires Internet connectivity. Outlook Voice Access requires phone connectivity. Operational Efficiency Exchange Server 2007 enables new levels of operational efficiency through capabilities that optimize hardware and networking investments and features that help make administrators more productive. Key Benefits: | • | Gets more from hardware, software, and network investments through the power of x64 computing and bandwidth-optimizing routing algorithms. | | • | Improves administrator productivity by making it easier to find and fix problems, and automate tasks more simply. | | • | Drives deployment efficiencies with automatic client connections, a new server roles-based architecture, and improved diagnostics and monitoring. | | • | Simplifies integrating Exchange Server data within line-of-business applications and third-party solutions through new Exchange Web Services. |
The Outlook Experience In addition to benefits and capabilities described above, Exchange Server 2007 offers the best integration with the broadest range of clients. Exchange Server supports a complete Outlook experience, from Outlook on the desktop to Outlook Web Access, Outlook Mobile, and the new Outlook Voice Access, a feature of Exchange Unified Messaging. Exchange Server also integrates with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and other Office applications as well as third-party systems and devices. 
Click here to download the Exchange 2007 data sheet. Click here to download the Exchange Server 2007 Product Guide. Outlook Web Access While on the go, however, a desktop client is not always the most convenient tool for accessing messages. Installing a rich desktop client on a kiosk, for example, is often neither possible nor desirable. Sometimes a Web mail client is required. Exchange Server 2007 includes Outlook Web Access, the most comprehensive Web mail client available. Completely redesigned in Exchange Server 2007, Outlook Web Access is designed to offer a rich Outlook experience in a Web browser. Like Outlook 2007, Outlook Web Access offers powerful new collaboration capabilities. Outlook Web Access also includes the Scheduling Assistant, support for rich Unified Messaging controls, vastly improved search, and new security and compliance capabilities, just like Outlook. Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007 also includes WebReady Document Viewing, which converts documents into HTML. This allows attachments to be viewed even from kiosks that lack viewers, and ensures that copies of documents are not left on these unsecured machines. Outlook Web Access ensures that, even when away from their desks, employees have access to the tools to help make them productive.
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