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In house Implementation |
ALOG Hosted Exchange |
| Financial Investment |
Large financial investment, often
thousands of dollars, for hardware, software licenses, IT resources and more. Unpredictable maintenance
expenses. |
Initial costs are minimal. No need to purchase hardware or software; no need for added IT personnel. Ongoing fees are low, predictable and easy to budget. |
| IT Resources |
Requires dedicated IT resources.
Managing a typical e-mail system for a 100 person company takes 85% of a senior technician's time. |
No dedicated IT resources
required. User maintenance can be performed by a non-technical person. All system management is performed
by the provider. |
| Deployment |
Average 30 days to deploy an
in-house messaging and collaboration solution with dedicated staff. * |
Get started in minutes with shared environment, a few days more for a dedicated solution using your own domain. |
| Reliability and
Maintenance |
Lack of redundancy and
bandwidth, poor administration,
delay in upgrades - any of these
can cause security and performance issues. Server crashing and e-mail interruptions cause business delays and loss of productivity. |
Updates performed in timely
manner by trained experts. Quality of service is guaranteed by SLA (99.99% uptime) and 24x7 technical support. Back up is provided with hosted service. |
| Security,
Maintenance
and Upgrades |
Constant vigilance required to
combat viruses and SPAM. Delay
in upgrades. Costly, complex security solutions. |
Security and mobility services are available on demand. Basic
features included with service;
advanced features available at low cost. |