The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server is an ideal platform for managing and growing your business. It provides you with a baseline infrastructure that you can build on and customize to your business needs.

At a glance this infrastructure brings many benefits to your organisation including:

	enterprise level email messaging and collaboration
	accessing business information remotely
	the ability to host your own company website
	helps to guard against data loss and secures data
	an easy to use intranet system for internal communication

Our clients build their network on the foundation of the small business server and will heavily use some of the features of the system while not being so dependent on others. Just as our clients are very different, they too use the small business server in very different ways. Despite this there are the common features which they all benefit from. The great thing about the small business server is there are numerous features just waiting to be deployed.

Some of the benefits of using a small business server are:-

	The flexibility of the systems to be adapted to your needs.
	while your business may not take advantage of all the features from the outset, these features are in built and often with minimal configuration can be up and running in very short time
	the scalability of the system to grow as you grow

At Excelan we have taken a carefully considered approach on behalf of our small business clients. It is quite rare that client requirements will only be Small Business Server software. More than likely a complete solution is required and it is here that we offer extensive experience in selection of hardware, selection of complimentary software, such as antivirus solutions, configuration of backup systems or setups of internet connections.

The key components of our small business server infrastructure are:

	Windows Small Business Server software
	server hardware configuration with redundancy and protection
	an automated tape or disk backup system
	antivirus email and file system protection
	high speed internet access with a static IP
	hardware perimeter firewall device
	network printing
	desktops, laptops and smartphones

The integration of the various components inside and alongside the small business server provides your business and your technology the opportunity to work in concert with one another. Giving your business the platform it requires to grow and compete. Are you ready to do more with less?