Title: FENESTRAE MOBILE AND MESSAGING SOLUTIONS FOR MICROSOFT HOSTED EXCHANGE
1FENESTRAE MOBILE AND MESSAGING SOLUTIONS FOR
MICROSOFT HOSTED EXCHANGE
- Chris Gerretsen
- Business Development Manager
- Fenestrae
- chrisg_at_fenestrae.com
2FENESTRAE INTRODUCTION
Fenestrae develops software that enables
organizations to communicate with every customer,
employee and partner across the boundaries of
time, media, location and applications.
- Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
- Founded 1990
- 8.500 Customer installations in 60 countries
- 200 resellers
- Offices in Netherlands, USA, UK, Germany and
Spain
3BROADBAND PROVIDER CHALLENGES
- Broadband grew 90 in 2002 due to price drops.
- Up to 16 of households in 2002, 30 in EU in
2008 - 2003 growth 50 - Little improvement in service offerings (besides
adult content and P2P) - Strong competition deregulation
- Resellers have grown adoption but increased price
pressure - Get ready for broadband churn!
- Move from user growth/adoption strategy towards
profitability - Small Medium Business
- 20 million SME (lt250 employees) hardly addressed
by broadband providers - Forrester 2004 Managed services revenues SME in
2008 Euro 11B - IP VPN, firewalls, mobile, unified messaging and
communications Exchange, web hosting, storage,
backup - Services, services, services
4MOBILITY IS A COMPETITIVE IMPERATIVE
- Mobility in the business environment is exploding
- In 2 years over 50 of workers can be considered
mobile - Mobile solutions required to increase
productivity - Mobile messaging is far more ubiquitous than
email - 1.5B wireless subscribers sending forecasted 584B
SMS messages in 2004 - 100 SMS for every person on the planet!
- Mobile messaging drives revenue growth
- But take up is slow in SMB and Enterprise markets
- Need for wireless Sync solutions is clear
- Online browse model not sufficient for business
use - Smartphone sales FY04 will double, 85 of all
phones sold in 3 years are Sync enabled - 75 of Windows Mobile SPV phones users have
synced their phones!
5MOBILE MESSAGING MIXED SUCCESS
- SMS very successful in consumer market
- Major data ARPU driver for mobile operators
- Consumer services person-to-person, information,
voting, - Infra structure designed for peak (evening) usage
- underutilized during business hours - SMS and MMS business adoption still lagging
Why? - SMSC/MMSC Integration is Difficult
- Large permutation of proprietary APIs
- Provisioning cumbersome and inflexible
- No SMS/MMS Support in standard desktop and server
applications - Custom development required
- Partial solutions exist
- SMS brokers/aggregators still custom
development, lose customer ownership, cost - Desktop SMS clients TCO nightmare, no server
integration
6FENESTRAE MOBILE MESSAGING FEATURES
- For Microsoft (Hosted) Exchange
- Send SMS from Outlook/OWA
- Text, Address book integration
- (Non)delivery notifications
- SMS notifications of new email
- Based on Exchange rules
- Cost control features
- WAP and SyncML Over The Air provisioning by SMS
- Out of the box integration in mobile networks
- SMS delivery ActiveSync always up to date
(AUTD) notifications - Also supported BizTalk, MS CRM, SQL
Notifications, and .NET Web services
7FENESTRAE HOSTED EXCHANGE INTEGRATION
- Microsoft Provisioning System
- Adding mobile and fax service plans to existing
MPS service plans - Integrated in MPS Web UI
- Microsoft Operations Manager
- Adding Management Pack
- On top of writing to Event Log and Performance
Counters
8FIRMS NEED FAX THE EASIEST WAY
- Why is fax so important to SOHO, SME and
Enterprise alike? - Pervasiveness Every company owns a fax machine
and can be reached by fax - Legal acceptance Fax is the only viable way for
SOHO and SMEs to send legally binding documents
electronically. - Why move to an email based fax solution?
- Sending faxes Typically takes up to 7 minutes
per fax times number of faxes. - Receiving faxes Efficiency, delivery delays,
lack of security, document management paper
drive, lost documents cannot be retrieved
regulations!. - Why would firms want this service?
- See above
- Instant ROI most fax machines have a dedicated
telephone line, Just the monthly rate for that
line replaced by a fax integrated in Outlook
yields an almost instant ROI.
9FENESTRAE FAX FEATURES
- Send and receive fax messages just like email
- Address book integration
- Delivery notifications
- Personal fax numbers
- Supporting Japanese, etc
- No client software required
- Lifecycle management does not involve end users
- Reliable, scalable and proven solution
- 8500 installations worldwide
- Close to 20 of the Global 1000
10FENESTRAE ADRESSING SYNC CHALLENGES
- Business and technical requirements
- Multiple standards and versions - device
agnostic multiple solutions? - Client software lifecycle management is TCO
nightmare - Fenestrae Synchronization Server features
- Integration with Microsoft Provisioning System,
Active Directory (optional), WS 2003 and
Microsoft (Hosted) Exchange - ASP.NET Web management with delegated admin and
end user self care - Security
- Authentication against multiple providers,
SSL/WTLS encryption over HTTP/WAP - Supporting rich information sync and feature set
- Email attachments, Calendar, Tasks, Contacts,
cost control,
11FENESTRAE ARCHITECTURE
12FENESTRAE CARRIER CLASS SOLUTIONS
- Reference architecture performance
- 1M mailboxes, 2 fax/sec, 10 SMS/sec
- Reliable and Scalable
- Scale out also in NLB deployments
- Single instance clusters for failover
- SQL Server logging
- Archiving of messages and transactions
- Reporting
- CDR for billing integration
- Distributed deployments
13ADDRESSING MARKETS FROM SOHO TO ENTERPRISE
Mobile Operator
Hosting Provider
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14FENESTRAE DEPLOYMENT SCENARIO EXAMPLE
- Customer signs up for SMS and alerts via Web
- Exchange Connector is downloaded and installed on
server. Creates SMS message type. Creates SMS
alerting rules - Exchange Connector connects to FCS Web Services
Interface - Administrator runs test messages and approves
system - All (selected) clients (Outlook/OWA) are now SMS
enabled and can send/receive SMS messages and
alerts.
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15BUILDING FUTURE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
- Fenestrae provides the platform to leverage your
investment by continued development of
differentiating and revenue generating services - Platform for deploying interactive SMS
(information) services - Mobile messaging integration in widest range of
platforms and LOB applications - BizTalk Server 2004
- Microsoft CRM
- Microsoft Office Live Communication Server
- .NET Connected certified Web services API to
full messaging functionality - Synchronization with (Hosted) Exchange for any
Sync-enabled smart phone - MMS integration into Microsoft Exchange (inbound,
outbound)
16THANK YOU!
- Chris Gerretsen
- Business Development Manager
- Fenestrae B.V.
- chrisg_at_fenestrae.com
- www.fenestrae.com