Some of the immediate benefits include: • Reliability increased to 99.9 per cent guaranteed by Microsoft Service Level Agreements – no more major server/e-mail outage • Reduce messaging costs as much as 35 per cent (may vary based on your organisation) • Reduce IT infrastructure server count by as much as 50 per cent as well as reduce electrical power and management costs (may vary based on your current IT Infrastructure setup) • Flexible and easily scalable technology that can be used to deploy user services faster • Boost employee productivity via more reliable, high-performance e-mail messaging and SharePoint portal collaboration platform, accessible securely from anywhere at anytime • Deploy ‘Green IT’ infrastructure by reducing overall environmental impact with fewer servers and lower energy consumption • Eliminate IT spend around platform upgrades (for example upgrade from 2003 to 2010 version of Microsoft Exchange) • Business continuity and disaster recovery provisions built into service delivery systems There are clear business benefits that can be derived from the Microsoft Cloud offering, especially around improving employee productivity and collaboration, streamlining and automating current business workflows, improving return on investment and reducing total cost of ownership.