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This assessment is designed to determine your business needs for email, collaboration, and conferencing solutions and helps in discussions on how we can surface business productivity solutions to your current and future business needs.
 

Profile
Customer ID:
1.What is your geographic location?
 
2.How many employees do you have?
 
3. What is your annual revenue?
 
4. What is your industry vertical?
 
5. Do you currently outsource your IT or parts of your IT?
 

Messaging Capabilities.
6. Which e-mail solution(s) do you currently use for your organization? (Select all that apply)








 
7. Do you need any of the following messaging capabilities to support your business? (Select all that apply)










 
8. How soon do you plan to upgrade or replace your existing e-mail infrastructure?
 
9. How much of a capital investment do you expect to make for hardware, software, and professional services to build an additional messaging infrastructure (or upgrade your current one) to get the capabilities identified above?
  

Collabration Capabilities.
10. Which collaboration solution(s) do you currently use in your organization? (Select all that apply)




 
11. Do you need any of the following collaboration capabilities to work with your partners, customers, and employees? (Select all that apply)












 
12. How soon do you plan to upgrade or replace your collaboration infrastructure?




 
13. How much of a capital investment do you expect to make for hardware, software, and professional services to build an additional collaboration infrastructure (or upgrade your current one) to get the capabilities identified above?
  

Conferencing Capabilities.
14. Which conferencing solution(s) do you currently use in your organization? (Select all that apply)
 
15. Do you need one of the following conferencing capabilities to work with your partners, customers, and employees? (Select all that apply)





 
16. How soon do you plan to upgrade or replace your conferencing infrastructure?
 
17. How much of a capital investment do you expect to make for hardware, software, and professional services to build additional conferencing infrastructure (or upgrade your current one) to get the capabilities identified above?
 

Other.
18. What type of Microsoft Volume Licensing do you currently have?
 
19. If you are evaluating messaging, collaboration, and conferencing solutions for your organization, do you think you can obtain it for less than $15 per person per month for messaging, collaboration, and conferencing capabilities?
 
20. Do you have the capital for building additional or upgrading IT infrastructure?
 
21. Do you have a need to store data on-premises or within your country due to regulatory requirements?
 
22. Are you using one of these operating systems?
  • Windows Vista Business (SP1)
  • Windows Vista Enterprise (SP1)
  • Windows Vista Ultimate (SP1)
  • Windows XP Professional (SP2)
  • Windows XP Tablet (SP2)
  • Macintosh OS X 10.4 (optional)
 
23. How would you rate your in-house IT skill depth to deploy and manage messaging, collaboration, and conferencing infrastructure?
 
24. Can you maintain >99.9% availability for your current messaging, collaboration, and conferencing environments?