There will be room to move with licences for enterprise. The updated Microsoft Enterprise Agreement will let large customers translate some on-premise seats to the cloud.
Innis also confirms Telstra will retain exclusive distribution for the SMB market, despite rumours in last December that distribution would be opened up to partners as in New Zealand.
“Anyone who doesn’t have an EA [enterprise agreement] with Microsoft will receive service from T-suite.com,” Innis says.
“Customers that purchase Office 365 will pay on a per-month basis for whatever they choose to use. Some will buy the full suite, some will buy just Exchange and Lync, depending on their needs.”
Innis says the suite’s addition to the online service will boost appeal beyond BPOS: “Office 365 is a significant transition from BPOS. It really is more than the next generation”.
Launch plans will come with and without Office Pro Plus. The main SMB plan is for organisations with 25 seats – which is not a technical limit, Innis says.
“The feature set of that service we feel strongly matches what a customer of that size would require.”
A feature Innis expects to be very popular with SMB customers is My Sites, “like Facebook for SMBs”.
“They can create an internal website and post docs to share, see the presence of colleagues within that site, use instant messaging and collaborate on documents. New capabilities are levels of permissions in terms of accessing content and sharing material across organisations.”
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