Workgroup & Messaging Solutions

What Is Workgroups & Messaging?

Often described as ‘collaboration’, Workgroups and Messaging is a set of technologies and applications that are designed to enable your workforce, whether in teams or company-wide, to work more effectively together.

It enables them to quickly and simply communicate amongst one another, to share information and access key data and seamlessly act as a cohesive virtual team to your customers.

There are a number of components that go together to create Workgroups and Messaging solutions, starting from network connectivity, group user access and management, email capability, messaging, file sharing, application sharing and collaboration tools.

What Are The Benefits?
To both small and large enterprises alike, enabling workgroup collaboration through Workgroups and Messaging can significantly improve the productivity of your workforce while also improving the service that you deliver to your customers.

Workgroups & Messaging solutions enables your users to:

• Share access to files and applications.
• Effectively communicate through server-based email.
• Collaborate through messaging & web meeting tools.
• Securely access the internet.
• Securely communicate and collaborate with customers.

What Technology Is Available?
There are a number of tools and applications available in this arena ranging from a vast array of open-source solutions through to enterprise and small business solutions from Microsoft and Novell.

Microsoft Server products including Essential Business Server and Small Business Server provide all of the infrastructure required for collaboration with Exchange Server.

Novell provide a set of products specifically to provide workgroup functionality and collaboration including: GroupWise, Open Enterprise Server, Open Workgroup Suite, Teaming + Conferencing.

How Can b2Lateral Help?
With so many solutions available, b2Lateral can help you make sense of what is available and what are the best product offerings to meet your specific needs.

As a vendor-independent IT services company, our consultants are well versed in all of the leading technologies and can help you plan, source and deploy the most appropriate solutions.

For those of you who have a workgroup and messaging solution already in place or some of the technologies above, b2Lateral can help you maximise the investment you have already made and help you leverage these applications to the full potential.

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