Does your business need a hosted email solution?

Does your business need a hosted email solution? was originally posted to Nimbus

Practically all modern businesses are heavily reliant on email for exchanging information and coordinating their workforces. Simply put, email is absolutely integral to conducting business in the modern corporate landscape. But are ordinary email accounts good enough for your business? As an SME owner, you may be relying on standard, free email accounts such as those provided by Outlook or Google Mail. However, you may be able to benefit from a hosted email solution. Our Hosted Exchange email solution is one of our most popular managed services and it may be able to help your business. There are several important factors to consider when making the decision and we’d like to discuss them with you today.  

1. Coordination

Hosted email solutions such as ours provide additional ways to share information between employees rapidly. For example, our Hosted Exchange solution features shared calendars that all employees can see from their email accounts and which allow them to see the dates of important events instantly. This can save time, as it allows employees to coordinate their own activities within your business and frees you from having to personally organise each employee’s schedule. We also offer shared access to certain accounts, so that individuals can access important information when the employee who is usually responsible for it isn’t present. Of course, if your business only has two or three employees, you may not need ways to share information rapidly and comprehensively, as it is easy to coordinate your staff through conventional channels. However, if your business employs a reasonably large number of people, the ability to share information quickly and efficiently through a hosted email solution is invaluable.

2. Filtering

Ordinary email accounts are often susceptible to spam and other forms of irrelevant, disruptive mail. These can clog up your employee’s inboxes and make it harder for them to find important work-related emails. Hosted email solutions such as ours feature high-quality spam filters that drastically reduce the amount of junk mail you and your employees receive. Of course, not all businesses suffer from a spam email problem. However, if you do currently have to slog through a high number of irrelevant emails to find the important ones, this may be affecting your business’s efficiency. If so, a hosted email solution may help you.

3. Security

Hosted services are typically more secure than their non-hosted equivalents, simply because they are carefully managed by IT professionals. If you’re worried about the security of your business’s emails, it’s worth opting for a hosted email solution. We believe our Hosted Exchange email solution is one of the best managed services that we offer and that it could benefit the vast majority of SMEs. If your business needs a hosted email solution that’s secure, fast and efficient, Hosted Exchange may be ideal for you. If you'd like to find out more talk to us, call Nimbus CS today on UK & NI 028 900 800 30 or in ROI 01 901 2099