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Business Software - Email and Microsoft Exchange™
Email on the move?
Microsoft Exchange Server
Sometimes, the email program that came bundled with your new computer is not the best option for your business. Email programs such as Microsoft's Outlook Express are really designed for home users - and you could be missing out on some very useful functionality for your business if you use such programs. The standard for business is Microsoft Outlook, which includes a wealth of functionality that is missing from its baby brother, Outlook Express. Examples of this include: a calendar, task list, journal, automatic archiving and a powerful 'junk mail' feature to help keep down incidences of unsolicited or spam mail.
But perhaps the most important feature of Microsoft Outlook for businesses is its ability to work in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server, a powerful tool that supports online forms, calendar sharing and collaboration, as well as the ability to collect your email from any web-enabled computer by using Outlook Web Access, or OWA.  Industry opinion
Corporate bans on accessing personal Web mail accounts from the office are often misguided. IT organizations should re-evaluate Web mail policy to ensure it remains appropriate. The three most-common justifications for blocking Web mail don't always outweigh the business benefits of employee morale. As a result of the corporate accounting scandals of the last few years, new laws and the increased enforcement of old laws now require enterprises to re-evaluate their records-management policies. E-mail records management has become a particular area of focus. Printing documents was the electronic records management solution for some enterprises, but with the growth in the volume of e-mail and instant messaging, enterprises need a new approach. Concurrently, the expanding size of e-mail system data stores presents operational challenges to IS organizations as they try to keep these systems running efficiently. |
