Business Email Solutions

G Suite Email

Whether you run a business or are just a heavy user of email, you’re probably already aware of how helpful Gmail can be. Gmail is a great free option for many businesses and individuals.

If you own a growing business, though, you may want more from your email provider than a free service offer. That’s where G Suite email (formerly Gmail for Business) comes in. G Suite email includes the basic Gmail features that come with a free Gmail account, but incorporates many extras that a growing business will find useful—extras such as a custom domain name and technical support.

There are some important differences between the free version of Gmail and Gmail for Business (G Suite email). Some of these differences will be important to business owners and others who need more than what basic Gmail has to offer.

Some benefits of G Suite email include:

Match your email domain name to your corporate web site with a custom domain name.
Enjoy around the clock technical support by phone, email, or online.
Google-sponsored ads are gone.
Save more messages with increased cloud storage—starts at 30 GB.
Use other packages (like Outlook) as an email client.
Log in one time to access both email and other Google business tools like Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
Share calendar information between multiple employees.
Display your Logo on the Gmail interface.

Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange Server uses a proprietary remote procedure call (RPC) protocol called MAPI/RPC,which was designed to be used by Microsoft Outlook. Clients capable of using the proprietary features of Exchange Server include Evolution, Hiri and Microsoft Outlook.

Exchange Web Services (EWS), an alternative to the MAPI protocol, is a documented SOAP-based protocol introduced with Exchange Server 2007. Exchange Web Services is used by the latest version of Microsoft Entourage for Mac and Microsoft Outlook for Mac – since the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Mac computers running OS X include some support for this technology via Apple’s Mail application.

E-mail hosted on an Exchange Server can also be accessed using POP3, and IMAP4 protocols, using clients such as Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Lotus Notes. These protocols must be enabled on the server. Exchange Server mailboxes can also be accessed through a web browser, using Outlook Web App (OWA). Exchange Server 2003 also featured a version of OWA for mobile devices, called Outlook Mobile Access (OMA).

Microsoft Exchange Server up to version 5.0 came bundled with Microsoft Exchange Client as the email client. After version 5.0, this was replaced by Microsoft Outlook, bundled as part of Microsoft Office 97 and later. When Outlook 97 was released, Exchange Client 5.0 was still in development and to be later released as part of Exchange Server 5.0, primarily because Outlook was only available for Windows. Later, in Exchange Server 5.5, Exchange Client was removed and Outlook was made the only Exchange client. As part of Exchange Server 5.5, Outlook was released for other platforms.