Choosing a Corporate Email Server
Which corporate email server is the right one for your organization? To answer that question, you must first consider your company's existing communication requirements coupled with the capabilities and functionality you expect in a business mail server. The majority of today's organizations who strive for increased productivity are recognizing that basic email (static messaging), on its own, 'doesn't cut it' any more in this advanced information age. Modern e-mail communications have now evolved to require business-grade instant message/chat capability (dynamic messaging) combined with collaboration features built-in to the user's email software. This enables quick conversations or questions to get answered on-the-fly dynamically instead of piling up unanswered in users' inboxes. Inboxes are meant to be clear and uncluttered of messages, which accomplishes an organized desktop for the user. Unfortunately we rarely see this. In the current corporate environment, the daily informational deluge the average worker must process is cumbersome and represents a negative drain on organizational time and productivity. However, by combining 'smart' e-mail features with instant messaging & collaborative functions, this promotes an action-oriented work environment that gets people 'to do things' with the information that flows in to them. This type of contextual collaboration helps facilitate worker cooperation and teamwork, automates workflow, streamlines communications, and increases productivity. Corporate Email Server ExpectationsExpectations of a modern day corporate email server should include actionable e-mail features coupled with instant messaging (quick questions get answered by colleagues or experts in the company) and presence awareness features (to see who's online & available for calls, or who's offline and out in the field for example). A good, modern corporate email server should be capable of handling not just business-grade e-mail messaging, but also helpful collaboration capabilities.So ask yourself, which business-grade corporate email server products exist in the marketplace that can fulfill the above standards of effective collaboration? The primary business e-mail servers are:
The real question is which business-grade products will inherently provide these capabilities and which ones won't. The following link, http://www.nwc.com/shared/article/printFullArticleSrc.jhtml?articleID=18402767 , compares the 3 main offerings in the marketplace and rates the IBM Lotus Domino product with top marks. As a senior engineer with more than 10 years experience, I happen to agree and go further to state that the IBM Lotus Domino product is the primary offering that has instant messaging & collaboration capabilities already built-in to their e-mail interface. There are no per-server charges for organizations with up to 1,000 employees - i.e. the software is purchased on a per-user basis. That makes this product a huge winner with a highly competitive offering that can't be beat. Lotus Domino Messaging & Collaboration software helps streamline access to people and information, improves personal and team productivity, decreases response times, and reduces costs. These performance, productivity, and price improvements generate positive impact on an organization's bottom line. Summary:
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