SharePoint360 Teams With Microsoft to Extend Cloud Computing to the Masses

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[May 11, 2010]

SharePoint360 Teams With Microsoft to Extend Cloud Computing to the Masses

(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SAN DIEGO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/11/10 -- SharePoint360, the premier provider of business productivity consulting and hosting solutions, today announced that it has teamed with Microsoft to deliver Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS), an enterprise-class software, hosted by Microsoft in the cloud. BPOS streamlines worker communication and collaboration for greater productivity, simplifies technology management and upfront spend, and offers business-class computer security and reliability.

The Microsoft Online Services Suite capitalizes on cloud computing's benefits to extend Microsoft's enterprise software to any company via a monthly subscription model. This eliminates upfront costs of technology deployments and the burden of managing business computing systems. Additional key benefits include: Anywhere access to data -- desktop, mobile, Web Seamless user experience across workloads Team collaboration and conferencing Real-time communications Always up-to-date technology The Business Productivity Online Standard Suite consists of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting and Office Communications Online, making it easy for organizations to leverage and rapidly deploy familiar Microsoft server products as flexible services.

"Microsoft's BPOS is truly cloud computing for the masses, particularly small businesses," said Paul West, co-founder and principal at SharePoint360. "SharePoint360 is deploying Online Services to enable customers to further grow their business via better, enterprise-class technology that saves money from predictable spending and more streamlined IT." SharePoint Online, the Web version of Microsoft's most popular business application, provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently share documents, contacts, calendars and tasks in a single location. Leveraging redundant and geographically dispersed data centers, SharePoint Online helps simplify IT management by removing a company's need to deploy, configure, monitor and update/upgrade a collaboration solution on premises.

In addition, Exchange Online provides employees access to e-mail, calendar and contacts virtually while protecting against malware and spam. Exchange Online can be rapidly deployed, flexibly expanded and is designed to be securely administered using a powerful yet easy-to-use Web-based console.

SharePoint360 recently co-hosted a webinar with Microsoft discussing the business value of adopting the cloud-based Business Productivity Online Suite. To listen to the full conversation, go to: https://www112.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft1/view?id=GR2K48&pw=Xx-%5DZC%5D2r.

About SharePoint360Headquartered in San Diego, SharePoint360, LLC is a leading SharePoint consulting, hosting and business intelligence services provider. Founded in 2006, the company is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, whose team of software industry expert have completed more than 125 of collaborative technology implementation and development projects in the U.S. and internationally. More information about SharePoint360 is available at http://www.sharepoint360.com.

<b>Media Contact: </b>Cara Foley SHIFT Communications 415-591-8416 Email Contact

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