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SharePoint
in the BPOS Cloud can have many benefits for business. Cloud computing is a well-known provider of powerful pay-as-you-go environments with SaaS tools that can mean real ROI for businesses now rather than later. The Microsoft Online Services BPOS Suite offers the top businesses productivity solutions from Microsoft in a monthly subscription model, all hosted in a cloud Azure-powered environment.
The only downside is if businesses need to have their website hosted from their SharePoint site, they are unable to do so from SharePoint Online Standard. So what do mid-size and enterprise businesses do if they require a SharePoint that allows their website to be hosted from SharePoint and other benefits as businesses would have from an in-house server? The answer is through Microsoft’s SharePoint Online Dedicated Server, powered by Windows Azure Cloud and SQL servers.
Businesses that require more than 5,000 seats of SharePoint subscriptions for users and seeking to cut costs and improve their uptime should definitely switch to the cloud. Dedicated and managed servers from Microsoft Online Services offer businesses the transparency and resources that they need to ensure that their websites, web portals, and unified communications are available with anywhere access.
What makes this a great deal for businesses as well is the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement pricing available to bulk purchasers. Businesses that utilize the large number of seats in conjunction with an enterprise license agreement are able to pay for the pricing upfront, but with the lower cost of “leasing” the software, rather than outright buying it.
- Meeting workspace site templates (Blank Meeting, Decision Meeting, Social Meeting, Multipage Meeting)
- Standard site templates (My Site, News Site, Internet Presence Website)
- Social networking
- Server admin templates (20)
- Templates requiring server-side custom code
- Audience targeting (Target a distribution group and create audiences)
- Colleagues and memberships Web Parts
- Backup and restore via Office SharePoint Designer
- User Profiles Import (Profile Sync, directory import)
- Content staging, publishing and deployment
- Integration with Microsoft Information Rights Management
- Standard enterprise site templates (Document Center, Records Center, Site Directory, Report Center, Personalization Site, Search Center)
- Retention and auditing policies (Logging of all actions on sites, content, and workflows; audit log reporting)
- Cross-site collection search
- Enterprise content sources
- People search
- Search federation
- Business Intelligence (Dashboards, KPI and filtering Web Parts, Report Templates, Excel service, Data connection libraries)
- Office SharePoint Server out-of-the-box workflows
- Browser-based forms
- Custom code workflows
- Vanity domains
- Backup and restore for 30 Days
- WAN acceleration
- Server-side custom code
- Pre-production environment
 Sign up for a free trial of SharePoint Online Standard through the BPOS Suite and get a free preview of the cloud-hosted services.
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