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We are a small public relations and marketing communications firm specializing in home fashions, home furnishings and lifestyle clients. We have only 2 employees and fiveaffiliates (independent contractors) working for us. For our small company, I happen to be the one in charge of IT, which is scary, because my background is not in IT at all.
Our affiliates are located in different parts of the country, and we all travel a lot, so sharing information was a challenge until recently. We needed the ability to quickly and easily share visual information with our affiliates without having to duplicate all files on everyone's PC and using up all the space on everyone's hard drive. We needed a solution that wouldn't require IT knowledge and would meet our storage and pricing requirements.
We started using 123Together.com's hosted Windows SharePoint Services. It is a perfect solution for us, as it allows us to easily share files online. And while we began using it simply to share images we began to find other uses.
Each month we assemble a report of all activities undertaken on behalf of our clients. It is a collaborative document we used to manually assemble from each individual's report. That report was then "bicycled" around for final approval - - a lengthy and needlessly complex procedure. SharePoint has greatly simplified the process. The report is now posted on line and each affiliate can add to it as the month progresses. No need to wait for someone to finish their work before the next person can begin. The check-in and check-out functionality helps us avoid version conflicts; and the SharePoint version control functionality assures us everyone is looking at the same information.
We are continually finding more way to take advantage of all the features of SharePoint. For example, we started creating workspaces for events and special projects we create for our clients.
123Together.com's SharePoint application helped us resolve our file sharing and collaboration challenges, and our experience with the service has been very positive - especially for a guy with no IT training but all the IT responsibility.

123Together.com Offers Hosted MS SharePoint Foundation 2010 - Service helps small and mid-size organizations increase collaboration and efficiency to better compete and grow their businesses.

123Together.com, a mindSHIFT Technologies company and a provider of hosted, cloud-based email and business collaboration services, today announced the immediate availability of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 as a hosted service.

The company mentions that its Hosted SharePoint Foundation 2010 service enables small and mid-size organizations to increase team productivity and corporate efficiency with this enterprise-class business collaboration tool for a small, predictable monthly fee. Serving as a central hub to distribute files, task lists, meeting notes and ideas, employees across an office or across the globe can collaborate and effectively manage projects, document versioning, calendars, newly designed web pages, marketing images and internal corporate communication.

It avers that Hosted SharePoint Foundation 2010 includes:

• Email-enabled lists: Outlook email messages can be sent directly to SharePoint and are automatically filtered into the appropriate lists.
• Multiple browser support: Employees can use their favorite browser - Explorer, Firefox or Safari - and have the same rich user experience.
• Enhanced compliance features: Regulatory compliance can now be implemented on files, web content and other electronic data stored in SharePoint.
• Out-of-the-box web parts: Picture libraries, tag clouds and other web parts are available to increase functionality with the click of a mouse.
• Business connectivity services: Capture external data and make edits directly from within SharePoint sites or web parts while working online or offline.
• Improved task automation: Create single or multi-event workflows with a series of automated tasks prompted by specific actions.
  

The company says that Hosted SharePoint Foundation 2010 can be purchased as a single service or bundled with additional cloud services including its Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2010 email service. It claims that it was the first provider of cloud-based business services to offer Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hosted Edition. The deep integration of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft SharePoint makes this a comprehensive communication and collaboration solution and provides a strategic business advantage for small and mid-size organizations.

"According to Microsoft, SharePoint is one of the fastest growing tools in its suite of professional applications. Using SharePoint Foundation in a hosted environment enables small businesses to access tools that have historically only been available to enterprise clients," said William Flynn, 123Together.com General Manager. "We are helping to level the playing field and provide smaller organizations with the tools they need to compete and grow."
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