A couple of months back, I speculated on how/when Microsoft would subject hosted SharePoint Server, hosted Exchange Serverand hosted Reside Communications Server products. My best guess was Microsoft would launch Microsoft-managed versions of those solutions inside the late 2007 or later on timeframe.I was surprised to discover nowadays at Microsoft;s TechEd 2007 display that all of these products are currently about the Microsoft cost list. And you will find some new managed providers within the near-term pipeline about which Microsoft hasn;t gone public,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus, for instance a Microsoft-managed business-intelligence bundle consisting of SQL Server,
Windows 7 32bit, Performance Point and SharePoint Server all integrated collectively.Microsoft is taking significantly its own Software+Services strategy and is creating not just a service to accompany pretty much every one of its existing software program items,
Microsoft Office 2007, but additionally a managed support implementation of the service, based on Ron Markezich,
Microsoft Office Pro 2007, Microsoft Vice President of Managed Solutions.Microsoft has mentioned its managed-desktop providers that it has been testing within Microsoft, in addition to with customer Energizer Holdings for that previous few of a long time. Microsoft has said much less concerning the reality that in addition, it has been piloting Microsoft-hosted Exchange, SharePoint and Live Communications Providers with Energizer and also the only other managed-service client Microsoft has named publicly (XL Funds).Within the last quarter, Microsoft signed up two extra paying out clients for its managed companies, Markezich stated during an interview at Microsoft;s IT pro conference in Orlando on June 4. He said neither customer is yet prepared to get named.“We want consumers with 5,000 seats and above,” stated Markezich. “We started offering these (solutions) broadly a year ago, but the sales cycle is fairly long.”In order to participate,
Office 2010 Product Key, consumers who want to buy these providers directly from Microsoft must be willing to obtain an Enterprise Agreement license for that associated on-premise software and then pay a monthly usage fee. Healthcare and pharmaceutical clients are showing considerable interest, as are customers who want to migrate off non-Microsoft platforms, Markezich said.Microsoft is mulling other managed providers, including a managed version of SoftGrid, its application-virtualization product. Microsoft could offer managed SoftGrid as a hosted appliction-distribution service, a desktop-management service or any other quantity of ways, Markezich stated. Microsoft also is thinking through how it could build a managed thin-client support, either depending on Terminal Services or one of its virtual-machine products, he added.Enterprise users: Would you be interested in letting Microsoft run and manage any of your current or future providers?