Online Services

Information and knowledge management (I&KM) pros are used to giving all employees the same software tools. While this has the benefit of simplicity, it often means buying licenses for software that is seldom or never used. With cloud-based email, firms now have a way to tune their email costs to the actual needs of their workforce. The easiest way to get started is to host some mailboxes on-premises and others in the cloud.

While firms with fewer than 15,000 employees can almost always save moneyby moving all mailboxes to the cloud, every firm can save money by moving their occasional users - workers that can get away with a Web-based email client - to a cloud-based email provider. How much money? For these occasional users, as much as $63 per user per year.

Microsoft® Online Services supports migration of the contents of local Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes as well as the contents of POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes from your current environment to Microsoft Exchange Online.