It can be difficult to decide on the right email solution for your business, with G-Suite, Office 365, and hosted Microsoft Exchange all offering an increasing amount of tools and features. Here we’ll run through four of the best reasons to pick Exchange for your team’s email needs.
Enterprise focus
Exchange has evolved with the latest business trends and is a huge leap up from the traditional POP3 or IMAP email services many businesses still use today. Exchange is designed for the enterprise environment, which means it offers a broader mix of features and collaborative tools than one would expect in a personal email service.
Control
Whilst many companies choose fully managed and cloud-hosted email services like G-Suite and Office 365, this means giving up a fair amount of control over the company’s email to a third party. If legal restrictions prevent your company from sending such email outside of national borders, or if there is other sensitive data employees send to each other via email, or if you want overall control and reporting features for company-wide email then an Exchange solution might be the right choice.
Not only does Exchange offer various enterprise features, a wide array of custom tools are available from a variety of vendors, such as Promodag, that can add additional tools and reporting features.
Choice and competition
As it is a software solution, there is huge competition between firms offering hosted Exchange solutions, which both brings the price down and leaves options open for moving in the future. This lack of a lock-in has made Exchange a hugely popular product for businesses, and with the help of assisted migration, moving between one firm and another is relatively stress-free if you ever do decide that is the best choice for your company.
Optional migration to Office 365
Whilst a hosted Exchange solution may be what your company needs right now for the control and low upfront fees, situations do change and the ability to easily migrate your Exchange accounts to the cloud-based Office 365 at a later date leaves another option open.
Moreover, a number of development firms who offer specific tools for added functionality for hosted Exchange solutions also often provide similar services that plug into Office 365, allowing you to continue a similar workflow and to maintain the ability to retrieve office 365 logs for advanced reporting and analysis.
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