eQuest Ready for Order Solutions

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eQuest Ready for Order Solutions
Hosted Exchange Seminar 24 November 2004 Stockholm
Francois Lorho eQuest Technologies EMEA
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Overview

• Company overview
• Managed Exchange Quickstart
• Online Consulting
• eQuest Automation Framework Overview
• Hosting Edition

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Corporate Profile

• Innovative and agile systems integrator that
  delivers ground-breaking solutions and services
  to Service Providers and Hosters worldwide
• Sole focus is Service Providers looking to
  deploy and integrate Microsoft Solutions
• Over 8 years of Deployment of Hosted Web,
  Messaging and Application Hosting Services to
  150 Service Provider customers Worldwide

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Corporate Profile

• Windows Hosting
• MCIS
• Windows Hosting ver 1.0-3.0
• Hosted Exchange
• MCIS
• HVE
• HMC
• HE 2003.1

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Corporate Profile (2)

• Onsite and offsite development experience with
  Microsofts Solutions/Products teams such as
  Windows Hosting, Hosted Exchange, Microsoft
  Provisioning System, ASP.Net and Windows
• Founded in 1998
• Headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with
  locations in Chicago, Kansas City, Redmond,
  Paris, Zurich
• Customer engagements throughout the US, Canada,
  Europe, and Asia

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Customer we have served
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Microsoft Relationship
Microsoft Provisioning System Worked with the
Windows development team and the OSS/BSS
Solutions Unit to deliver MPS and associated
Namespace Microsoft Hosting Solutions Worked
with the High Volume Hosting and Hosted Messaging
and Collaboration solutions units to architect
and deliver administration frameworks and user
interfaces Worldwide Delivery of ADS, BPW, POCs
and EAPs Delivering Best Practices Assessments,
Architectural Design Sessions, Proof of Concepts
and Early Adopter Programs on behalf of Microsoft
to 100 Hosting companies Worldwide MPSC Project
Partner Contributing solutions content and
providing partner management support for the
Microsoft Partner Solutions Center on Microsoft
Redmond Campus
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Managed Exchange Quickstart

• Benefits
• Fixed-cost Hosted Exchange offering - 25-35K
• Defined-scope
• Rapid deployment
• Supports 1 to 10K mailboxes
• Target Customer Base
• Small hosters wanting to test the waters with
  little risk
• Large hosters wanting a proof of concept that
  they can use to
• kick the tires of the solution

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What the MEQ is

• Customer provides hardware and software
• eQuest does everything else
• Operating System Deployment
• Software Deployment and Configuration
• Microsoft Exchange, MOM, SQL, etc.
• eQuest Automation Framework Hosting Edition A
  framework for building custom provisioning
  applications

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What the MEQ is
eQuest Automation Framework provides

• Reseller provisioning
• Customer provisioning
• User provisioning
• End-user self-service controls
• Global address list provisioning
• Offline address list provisioning
• Public folder creation utility
• Creation and management of distribution lists
• Organizational templates

• Secondary/vanity email domains
• Account forwarding
• Bulk import utility
• Audit logs
• Basic reporting
• EAF HE 3.0 (Jan 01 Release) will add the
  following
• Skinability
• Localization

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What the MEQ is not

• Not a Large-Scale Deployment
• But it can scale-out to a Large Deployment
• Does Not Require Extensive Pre-Sales efforts
• Essentially, a canned engagement
• Does Not Require Extensive Discovery or
  Design
• Can always be customized at a later point

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What the MMEQ is

• Mobile Exchange Quickstart
• Add the Mobility functionality of Fenestrae SMS
  and Fax Solution
• Same Benefits and Deployment Services as MEQ
• Provisioning of Fenestrae included
• Announced today! And customer ready
• Available for 30-40K

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What Online Consulting is

• Pre-Paid Remote Consulting
• Focused on Pre-deployment or during deployment
• Email and phone based
• Prepaid increments of 10,20, 50 or more hours
• Dedicated alias for each customer
• Consulting via pre-scheduled meetings,
  conference calls or project activities
• Hours that may be utilized for technical
  support, with a response within one business day
• Standard contract and datasheet..
• Can be purchased today!

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Online Consulting

• Benefits
• Only purchase what you require
• Extensive experience of eQuests seasoned
  Microsoft Hosting professionals
• Expert guidance and best practices
• Rapid responses to challenging technical
  questions
• Target Customer Base
• Small hosters wanting to self deploy but would
  like validation and guidance
• Large hosters wanting to self-deploy but
  looking for access to experts

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How can it be used?

• Receive expert assistance with Solutions
  Architecture and design
• Review project goals and timelines
• Learn about limitations of products, tools, and
  solutions
• Review code
• Benefit from general consulting and guidance
• Discuss hardware recommendations
• Review and discuss best practices

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More Information

• MEQ Overview/Release
• Francois Lorho (florho_at_eqinc.com)
• Samuel Dupas (sdupas_at_eqinc.com)
• Mike Klass (mklass_at_eqinc.com)
• Steve Winter (swinter_at_eqinc.com)