Microsoft is cutting the subscription costs for its on-demand
application portfolio by 30% to less than £7 per user per
month.
Microsoft is reducing the price of
Business Productivity Online (BPO) Suite ,
Microsoft
Exchange Online,
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Online and
Microsoft Office Communications Online.
The BPO Standard Suite is now £6.69 per user per month for a
minimum of five users. It was £10 previously.
Microsoft offers products such as Exchange and SharePoint online
for a monthly subscription rather than the customer having to buy
full licences.
Google offers a similar deal for its
Google Apps products range and has won significant
customers.
Rentokil Initial became one of the largest user of Google Apps,
by rolling out the cloud-based office suite to 35,000 users
globally last month.
Rentokil plans to use Google to consolidate 40 e-mail systems,
including open source products and Microsoft Exchange, into a
single e-mail system. The complex set-up prevented staff from
sending e-mail across the group.