The Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of messaging and collaboration tools, delivered as an easy to budget for subscription service, that helps your employees better serve your customers without the need to deploy and maintain software and hardware on-premise.

The offering includes Exchange Online for email & calendaring, Office SharePoint Online for portals, document sharing and social networking; Office Communications Online for presence availability, instant messaging and peer to peer audio calls; Office Live Meeting for web and video conferencing and Forefront Online Protection for Exchange enhanced security.

BPOS gives customers the powerful productivity capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting from the cloud quickly, easily, and without the up-front costs of an on-premise deployment. The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite help customers communicate and collaborate efficiently and effectively, while freeing their IT resources to focus on business-critical tasks.