WHY TUSCOM HOSTED EXCHANGE?

1.  E-mail is stored on a highly redundant system at TUSCOM. This eliminates the problem of a station crashing and that e-mail being lost.

2.  You will have a domain name with a Secure Socket Layer Certificate for sending e-mail. This provides secure communications on the internet for your e-mail.

3. E-mail is scanned for virus content at the server level.

4. You get shared calendars, contacts, and distribution lists. This lets you collaborate easily as well as see projects across any configuration of time you want to select. Updates made are instantly updated in real time to everyone on the system.

5. You get meeting and projects accept/reject features. New items can be added to shared calendars and you can invite others to agree to the time, suggest a new time, or reject the time. You get an e-mail response when people accept your times and dates or they can suggest alternate ones. All of this is updated on the shared group calendars as it is happening and everyone can see. You can have as many group calendars as you like covering various projects as well as a combined calendar that shows the overlaps of various projects. The calendars can be printed.

6. Other customers you work with that have Exchange can accept your email invitations or date acceptance and it will mark your calendar, a shared calendar and their calendar. This is very powerful when trying to plan conference calls or schedule projects.

7. As items are put on the calendar you can get a notification. This also works for changes. This is very powerful and keeps an error from happening if someone accidentally moves something. You can also restrict what people can do with the calendars.

8. Web Outlook. You will have access to all e-mail and calendars, contacts, etc. from anywhere you have an internet connection anywhere in the world. Any changes you make or e-mails you send are automatically updated so when you get back to the office there is nothing to change, it is already done. When you send e-mail from Web Outlook, it is exactly like sending it from your computer. You will see your Outlook screen. This is one of the most powerful and useful features of Exchange.

9. Out of office assistant helps keep people updated with your status if you need to alert them.

10. Your emails send instantly rather than having a third party e-mail system have to queue them.

11. You can create as many e-mail addresses as you like.

12. You can delegate control of calendars, contacts or e-mail to others. They can reply for you, make changes on shared or personal calendars or contacts if you allow it.

13. Real Time integration with Smart Phones running Windows CE or ActiveSync is available. This allows you to have your e-mail, contacts and calendar in real time on your Smart Phone without having to dock to sync. Updates are essentially instant. This Feature is optional.

14. Outlook does not have to remain open to receive emails as you have to have with the accounts you have now.

15. Costs are managed. Add or remove users as needed.

16. Spam is dramatically reduced through our state of the art Anti-Spam Subscription. This feature is optional.

17. E-mail is scanned for virus threats both incoming and outgoing. This feature is optional.

18. No in-house server to maintain, manage, update or replace. Ever.

19. All Exchange Updates are automatically installed with no or minimal interaction by the users.

20. In a disaster, if your building is destroyed or your power goes out, you can go to any computer connected to the internet and get to your e-mail and calendars. Our system is redundant and backed up by generator in the event of a power failure.