Cape Town, South Africa, 25 January 2010 - SyncMyMail today launched ‘hosted’ Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007, the instant messaging and unified communications server. By offering OCS 2007 software-as-a-service (SaaS), SyncMyMail helps to make streamlined workplace communications affordable for small and medium businesses. This is an important step following the software’s launch in October 2007 by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

SyncMyMail’s hosted OCS solution comes with many powerful features:
  • Private and secure instant messaging OCS allows companies to communicate without having to worry about privacy and legal risks of staff using public instant messaging (IM) systems like Google Chat or Skype.
  • Seamless integration across Communicator, Outlook and SharePoint, so free/busy status is always visible to colleagues and integrated with calendars.
  • Messages are saved, so IM conversations are searchable and stored for legal compliance
  • PC-to-PC voice and video conferencing, as well as secure file transfers.

“OCS 2007 is a major new product in business communication, and we are proud to offer this OCS 2007 as a software-as-a-service version,” said Jan Folmer, Managing Director of SyncMyMail. “ SME’s now have access to an affordable and powerful instant messaging and unified communications. For our hosted Exchange customers it has even more to offer as OCS is fully integrated with Exchange and Outlook.”

Office Communications Server 2007 hosting is now available for all hosted Exchange customers, and it will cost each user R 69 per month, and there is no setup fee. Also included is a free download of Microsoft Office Communicator, a sophisticated instant messaging program, for each user of the service. For more information, please visit www.syncmymail.com/za/ocs.php

About SyncMyMail SyncMyMail is the preferred provider of hosted e-mail and collaboration services for small and medium-sized businesses. SyncMyMail offers hosted Microsoft Exchange, hosted OCS 2007, hosted Dynamics CRM 4.0, hosted Microsoft SharePoint, mobile Messaging and Google Apps. SyncMyMail provides the reliability and scalability of big corporate IT-solutions at a small business price. The company is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, with an additional location in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). For more information, visit www.syncmymail.com.