Today’s workforce thrives on digital communication channels such as e-mail, cell phones, and instant messaging. Yet people still spend hours each day checking messages, searching for information, and trying to reach colleagues and customers.

Business success requires effective enterprise communication tools and collaborative resources—ideally, one log-in, one address book, and one inbox for all types of business communication. With an easy-to-use platform, you can eliminate barriers between communication modes—e-mail, voice mail, IM, Internet telephony (VoIP), Web conferencing—and boost productivity by enabling people to connect anytime, anywhere.

The Axxend Enterprise Communications solution leverages Microsoft-based technologies, including Exchange Server and Office Communications Server, to deliver truly integrated digital communications and real-time enterprise collaboration. Unified communications is the critical foundation of Axxend’s vision for digital collaboration and will be a competitive differentiator for forward-thinking companies, dramatically enhancing how employees communicate and collaborate with each other, partners, and customers.

In an effort to limit IT spending, many companies have deferred desktop upgrades and application refreshes, often for years. Now these organizations are in a bind: Legacy tools don’t have the speed, compatibility, or functionality to support today’s collaborative work environment, but the cost and effort required for large-scale desktop transformations is daunting.

Axxend can help, with a cost-effective upgrade strategy that creates a modern, consistent, secure desktop environment across your organization. We have the expertise, proven methodologies, specialized tools and processes, and implementation experience to deliver a smooth transition with minimal disruption. Our Desktop Transformation solution also provides a foundational platform for digital collaboration and unified communications, key components of the next generation workplace.

• Upgrade to current versions of Microsoft technology—including Windows 7, Office System, and SharePoint Server—and experience the power and productivity of an integrated, collaborative workplace.
• Improve user experience and employee productivity with the enhanced functionality of a fully managed, up-to-date, reliable workstation.
• Gain control over application sprawl for improved manageability and compliance, while lowering or eliminating licensing costs.
• Create operational efficiencies for lower TCO, higher ROI, and increased long-term value.

If your company’s communication and collaboration systems are built on Lotus Notes or IBM Domino, then you’re probably building the business case for transitioning to a more usable, scalable platform. A platform like Microsoft Exchange Server is widely recognized as the most user-friendly, manageable, and flexible messaging solution on the market.

While an application infrastructure migration is a major undertaking, Axxend offers a transformational strategy for moving from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft technology that leverages our deep experience, specialized tools and processes, and best practices gleaned from previous application migrations. Our proven methodology encompasses six stages—analysis, envisioning, planning, execution, stabilization, and deployment—and mitigates cost overruns, while optimizing productivity and business performance.

We will:

• Conduct a thorough business review, covering infrastructure, operations, messaging, applications, and end-user productivity before defining a clear, easy-to-follow migration path.
• Apply our expertise with Microsoft technologies to implement a flexible, integrated solution that meets both current and future needs.
• Combine on-shore and off-shore resources to deliver an effective, well-managed assessment and migration, using an intelligent, automated deployment process.
• Train your IT staff and work together to ensure successful knowledge transfer and enhanced operational efficiency from systems that are easier to manage and maintain.

For today’s global workforce, business success increasingly depends on companies having collaborative resources that enable employees to share information and work together seamlessly in real time. The ability to connect across time and geographies enables teams to be more productive, make better decisions, and stay competitive.

The Axxend Enterprise Collaboration solution integrates digital collaboration, unified communication, and presence tools into a single, secure portal platform based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This Web-based server improves organizational effectiveness through simplified information access, robust content management, enterprise-wide search capabilities, and coordinated business processes.

• Tight integration with desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers provides users with a consistent, familiar interface.
• Individuals and departments can create their own intranet sites to facilitate workgroup collaboration, and populate them with a wide variety of content and interactive tools.
• Presence tools enable people to see who’s available and communicate with them without leaving the current application.
• IT departments become more agile and improve their total cost of ownership (TCO) by incorporating existing investments into a single portal with scalable architecture and robust security and compliance features.
• SharePoint also provides broad support for smart forms, business analytics, document versioning, and multilingual content.

A changing business landscape and pressure to continually reduce costs are driving companies to find new ways to improve business communications. With increasing requirements for reduced up-front investments, hosted solutions for e-mail, Web portals, and online communications offer an attractive option for value.

Decision-makers widely recognize cloud computing as a viable way to reduce capital and operational expenditures. Axxend Services for Business Productivity Online Suite helps organizations migrate to and implement the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite with ease. This suite of enterprise-class communications and collaboration software, delivered as subscription services and hosted by Microsoft, can increase productivity and promote innovation.

We can help organizations achieve higher levels of performance with a next generation workplace that connects people, processes, and information. For organizations that wish to migrate from on-premise solutions to the Business Productivity Online Suite, Axxend now offers comprehensive transition and operational services.

Our vast network of on- and off-shore resources and deep platform expertise ensure that we design, develop, and maintain applications in a cost-effective manner.

We will:

• Conduct a thorough evaluation, chart a clear path, and provide comprehensive planning and migration services to ensure a rapid, positive return on investment.
• Use our global delivery methodologies, tools, and assets to help mitigate business and technology risks.
• Provide a full Level One IT service desk, with coordination across all delivery and support organizations, including escalation to Microsoft, to enable reliable resolution.
• Deliver customized services that will ensure effective migration and integration of legacy line-of-business applications to help reduce operational costs, better align IT and business goals, and improve time to market.