Collaboration

Secure collaboration of data, files and applications is the core of success in today’s multi-location enterprise. With remote office locations and home commuting on the rise, today’s challenge is how can you recreate a local office network out of globally distributed locations. And to make matters more complicated, organizations are recognizing the benefit of bringing sales representatives, distributors and even customers into the mix.

Much of the focus of collaboration solutions is on software solutions including email, groupware, instant messaging, etc. However, the infrastructure behind these collaboration applications is crucial in getting the solutions reliable and secure.

EXENET’s collaboration solutions are built upon a firm understanding of secure connectivity, performance and reliability.

EXENET's collaboration solutions taken into consideration three key areas:

• Leading edge vs. bleeding edge - adopting new technologies when they have been proven with other organizations of similar size and usage
• Secure computing – email systems have become regular targets for security attacks – we make sure that the latest steps have been taken to protect your network
• Optimization of IT hardware & software spending - keep technology vendors in check to assure that what you need to purchase is truly needed and determining when existing systems need to be replaced.

EXENET’s unique value:

• We always take a vendor independent approach – you get the technology you need, not what the vendor wants to sell you
• Key understanding for business processes in the vertical markets of legal, mid-tier financial services, advertising, media and education.
• EXENET brings best practices that have been designed and implemented in these verticals – we’ve done it and we know
• Our clients report that we have become their “trusted advisor”
• We understand in depth the technologies involved in creating collaboration solutions

EXENET collaboration services start with a review of existing corporate policies. Upon completion of this review, any potential gaps identified are documented and then our collaboration-focused engineers develop a solution focused on the infrastructure foundation. Due to the breadth of potential collaboration solutions, these services require a focus that deals with all aspects of your internal infrastructure and applications. During this architecture development phase, EXENET takes a vendor independent approach to assure best-of-class collaboration solutions.

• First Phase – Review/audit of the existing collaboration systems and audit the current hardware and application infrastructure.
• Second Phase – Create a vendor-independent architecture based upon the collaboration goals desired.
• Third Phase – Conduct vendor selection and technology recommendations
• Fourth Phase – Implementation of technologies, either jointly with a preferred integrator or independently. Co-sourcing solutions are commonplace.
• Fifth Phase – Monitoring and support of key security infrastructure components.

Technologies involved in EXENET’s collaboration solutions include:

• Branch office solutions: VPN’s, IPTel, routers, switches,
• Mail systems
• Directory services
• Storage systems
• WAN (frame, ATM)