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OneStream is an approved Microsoft Online Services partner
We can provide employees with access to email, calendar and contacts from virtually anywhere, at anytime, on desktops, laptops and mobile devices – while helping to protect against malware and spam.

Exchange Online 

Exchange ( mail server ) can be rapidly deployed, flexibly expanded and is designed to be securely administered using a powerful, yet easy-to-use Web-based console.

SharePoint Online 

Share documents, contacts, calendars and tasks in a single location. Based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Online delivers rich collaboration capabilities that enable team members to flexibly and efficiently collaborate, find organisational resources, search your intranet site and manage content and workflow.

Office Communications Online
Enable users to find and rapidly connect with the right person from the applications they use most. Office Communications Online provides streamlined access to rich presence and instant messaging capabilities that are centrally managed by IT and work seamlessly with a range of Microsoft Office system programs.

Office Live Meeting
Connect with colleagues and customers through real-time meetings, training sessions and events using only a PC with an Internet connection. Hosted Web conferencing services from Microsoft Office Live Meeting give your employees the power to collaborate wherever they are, to set up project meetings, brainstorm ideas and collaborate on whiteboards without the cost and hassle of travel.

HOW IT WORKS
Each Microsoft data centre, located strategically throughout the world, houses a highly reliable complex of equipment that provides seamless connectivity to the Microsoft Online suite of services. This global network of  data centres provides around the clock access to your business-critical collaboration services and helps keep your data safe. A single administrative panel for provisioning, usage, monitoring and support – enables simple and centralised management.  Plus, your users can enjoy the convenience of a single sign-on to access all their hosted services.

Microsoft Online Services Pricing – per user, per month  (as of Jan 2009)

Exchange Online Standard                  £3.35   -  Enable Business Class email within your business

 SharePoint Online Standard               £3.52 – Industry standard Intranet and colloboration system

 Live Meeting Standard                          £3.02 – Host meetings or training sessions online with full presentation capability

Office Communications                          £1.34 -  enterprise  instant messaging, presence, file transfer and and multiparty Voice and Video calling

Online Standard Suite (bundle of all above)       £6.71

Contact James@onestream.co.uk for further information for a free, no obligation 30 day trial

Microsoft Online Services

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If you would like to find out more about the Free OneStream Business Communications Audit, then please contact Garry Lee on g.lee@onestream.co.uk or call 01493 849501.

Remote Working – Written by Phil Rider

Source: Skynews.com

Looking out this morning on 6 inches of snow and watching the news which, as usual, shows the country at a standstill with any weather that is remotely out of the ordinary, I am struck by one message over and over….. Don’t travel unless absolutely necessary.

Cars are piled up at the roadside the length and breadth of the country, whilst others skate across ice covered surfaces with all the elegance of a drunken Hippo, and everyone displays that peculiar British spirit always evident in a crisis.

I make a quick decision; I will not join the throng, but instead, as I have no meetings today, will work from home. This is not so startling, as our company has a great remote operating system, which enables me and many of my colleagues to operate from anywhere as if we are sat at our desks.

I simply click on an icon on my laptop using the home broadband facility, though I could, as an alternative use my Vodafone Data card for 3G speeds, and I am connected to my office via a Virtual Private Network (VPN). This is fully password protected and so, secure, taking only a few seconds to connect me.

At this point I am prompted to click another icon called remote desktop, and within another couple of seconds, I am presented with my normal desktop view I would have were I sat behind my desk. As I tend to access most of my files from the backup on server, I am straight into them and able to carry on where I left off yesterday, all with total security.

At the same time my Blackberry is chirping away constantly with the latest emails, so I can switch between screens and attend to them whilst continuing working. Making phone calls is not an issue on my home phone, as my Blackberry is on a Vodafone Total Business tariff, which offers unlimited free calls to UK landlines, as well as free mobile to mobile calls to all our Company phones, so I can make all the calls I need, without costing me anything over and above our monthly call plan.

In many ways I am enjoying my day working remotely. Without other people and phones ringing, I am actually getting more done, and whilst I would never under estimate the social value of working in an office environment, this is undoubtedly a very efficient way to work whilst the weather is so poor.

Perhaps you should review the way your Company communications operate and see if OneStream cannot get you working even more efficiently than you do now.