Azaleos Managed Services for SharePoint 2007 and 2010

Azaleos’ Managed SharePoint Services assure the health and stability of SharePoint, helping IT and business get the most value from their investment. We manage environments that are in a private cloud/third party data-center, on-premise or a mix of both. We’ll help you improve performance, functionality and security while reducing cost and time spent on maintenance.

Azaleos Managed SharePoint Services is a three-tiered offering as described in the table below. All of the services come standard with:

Remote Monitoring and Management of servers and storage, regardless of location
Real-time monitoring of KPIs for SharePoint, IIS, SQL Server, Storage
Full support for virtualized installations of SharePoint
Fully secure, logged and auditable transaction records
Capacity and Sizing Consulting using the Azaleos SharePoint Calculator
Standardization of SP policies and configurations across customer SharePoint farms
Lifecycle management (patches, CU’s, service packs)

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What This Means To Your CIO
The CIOs we work with are focused on saving money, adding efficiency to their organizations and extending the value and skillset of their employees. Azaleos Managed SharePoint Services can reduce the total cost of ownership for SharePoint environments while providing a predictable monthly cost. CIOs get an SLA on their environment that’s supported by a team of experts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for a fraction of the cost of doing it in-house. Azaleos’ skilled group of experts deliver on organizational requirements quickly and effectively. Azaleos Managed SharePoint Services enable CIOs to reallocate key IT skillsets and improve processes and systems for the business as a whole.

How Our Services Benefit Your IT Organization
There are plenty of consultants out there that want to build SharePoint applications, but few that truly focus on SharePoint infrastructure. With Azaleos, IT organizations can immediately take a proactive approach to SharePoint, focusing on development and not infrastructure to get projects into production faster. Leverage Azaleos before a migration to collect data on current state and predict storage and performance requirements for the desired state. Our monitoring can be used for quality assurance and testing on new SharePoint environments. Our services integrate seamlessly with ticketing systems and internal IT processes. With Azaleos, IT resources lay a strong foundation for their SharePoint efforts, moving beyond day-to-day, reactive SharePoint tasks to get the most out of their collaboration investment.

How Our Services Benefit Your Company
Azaleos helps create more efficient IT departments that complete more projects. End users get better experiences with key messaging and collaboration applications, becoming more productive. IT saves money and time on deployment, training and management. The business leverages key IT skillsets to gain competitive advantage through improved processes and systems.

The 3 Azaleos SharePoint services are differentiated as follows:

	Starter Edition	Core Edition	Premier Edition
When to Use	Pilot installation or kick-off system for a department in a large organization	Standard kick-off system for small to medium size enterprises	Enterprise with unique requirements and/or custom usage scenarios for SharePoint
Target Segment	Small Enterprise or Departmental Pilots in a Larger Enterprise	Enterprise	Enterprise
Number of Users	Up to 1K	Up to 10K	Varies By Design
Storage	200GB (no ability to expand storage in this Edition)	250GB, 500GB, 750GB and 1TB options	Custom
Physical Servers	2	2 - 4	Custom
High Availability	No	Optional	Yes
Backups	No	Yes	Yes
Reporting	No	Yes	Yes
SLA	9AM EST to 9PM EST 99.5% uptime	24x7 Min. 99.9%	24x7 Min. 99.9%
Expandability	YES	YES	YES
Deployment	Rapid --- starts at 40 hours	Standard – starts at 80 hours	Custom Deployment
Custom Solutions Supported	Yes	Yes	Yes
Starting Sites	One My Site One Portal One Global Search	One My Site One Portal One Global Search	Custom
Includes support for: SP Search Social Networking Integration with AD, Lync & Exchange Intranet and Extranet Portal Configurations All out-of-box templates and libraries Communities (My Sites, Wikis & Blogs) Meeting & document workspaces Team web app, calendar and list templates	Yes	Yes	Yes
Includes support for: Business Connectivity Services Performance Point InfoPath Forms, Access, Visio & Excel Services	No	Yes	Yes
Includes support for: FAST Search Office Web Apps 2010 Project Server PowerPivot SQL Reporting Services Internet Portal Configuration	No	No	Yes, but with extra costs in some cases
MSFT Licenses Required	SP Server & Standard CALs	SP Server & Standard CALs	SP Server & Standard CALs
Azaleos Pricing	$2K/month/company + $26K hardware	Varies by Design	Varies by Design

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