Chapter 1: Looking at the Big Picture

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Overview

Owners of small businesses say key factors for producing fiscal growth include acquiring new customers, minimizing customer turnover, marketing products and services, and keeping ahead of competitors. You need technology to realize all those factors, but technology is not your business—your business is making a product, selling a product, or providing a service. Every minute that you have to spend doing something else is time taken away from the real business of your business. Plus, the desire to be competitive frequently runs up against the fact of real-world budgets. You need to do more with less—less money, less time, and fewer resources.

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 is a solution that is comprehensive, easy-to-use, and inexpensive. Microsoft has taken all the components necessary to run a business and combined them into a single, integrated, made-to-work-together package. Easy to set up and even easier to manage, Windows Small Business Server allows you to concentrate more time on what you went into business for.

Windows Small Business Server is available in two versions, so you don’t have to pay for what you don’t need. Since both versions include Microsoft products that, bought individually, would be considerably more expensive, you get a fully developed business solution that’s a bargain to boot.

Windows Small Business Server 2003, Standard Edition, includes Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition; Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services; Microsoft Exchange Server 2003; and Microsoft Shared Fax Service. These products give you a fully developed business solution that includes all the essentials: e-mail, Internet connectivity, a preconfigured internal Web site, a shared fax service, services for remote users and mobile users, and wizards to make configuration easy.

Windows Small Business Server 2003, Premium Edition, includes all the preceding features plus Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 for firewall and Web caching services, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to handle databases, and Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003.

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