Gartner Report on Email Systems

The latest Gartner report does a good job of breaking down on-premise and cloud-based email systems.  Many vendors fair well with positive and Microsoft does a good job leading the charge with a "strong positive" rating.

Email and Calendaring systems continue to be one of the most, if not the most important systems used daily by enterprises.

A reprint of the report can be found at Gartner's site at http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/microsoft/vol10/article19b/article19b.html

How to know when to send your email to the cloud - Gartner analysis

Gartner analysts Matthew Cain and James Lundy went through the cloud vs. on-premise email conundrum, but what really made the presentation was a series of charts that serve as decision grids for making a move.

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Tier Your Workforce To Save Money with Cloud-based Corporate Email

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Executive Summary

Information and knowledge management (I&KM) pros are used to giving all employees the same software tools. While this has the benefit of simplicity, it often means buying licenses for software that is seldom or never used. With cloud-based email, firms now have a way to tune their email costs to the actual needs of their workforce. The easiest way to get started is to host some mailboxes on-premises and others in the cloud. While firms with fewer than 15,000 employees can almost always save money by moving all mailboxes to the cloud, every firm can save money by moving their occasional users - workers that can get away with a Web-based email client — to a cloud-based email provider. How much money? For these occasional users, as much as $63 per user per year.