Extremely low TCO

Managed service has a minimal Total Cost of Owner rate. So it is a cheapest solution, especially when you compare all costs what you have to spend during eg. 3 years term, why? Because:

• the price is low,
• you do not have to buy hardware,
• you do not have to pay any salary for IT specialist,
• you do not have to train your IT specialist,
• you have a guarantee that your e-mail protecting solution is managed by the best IT specialists,
• you do not have to sped time for software installation and fix packs installations etc.,
• you do not have to pay high electrical bills,
• you can resign from high expensive data centers, power supply systems and air condition systems,
• you do not have to physically protect the server (controlled access, dedicated guardians, monitoring systems),
• you do not have to spend a lot of time for reactions in case of attack,
• there is no necessary to invest in infrastructure when your company becomes bigger.

As you can see from other sectors there is a market trend to specialization. There will be in the future just few companies providing specialized services and products. Other will send the same solution maybe under their own brand. Now SMI! is one of such companies which is focused on e-mail protecting systems. Our company sell SMI! under our own brand: Secure Mail Intelligence! but also under two other well known brands. This helps everyone because we have more sales others have best tested and great quality product.

Focus on your own business

We believe that your company have also some unique specializations so to became great in that what you are doing, you should focus on growing your business and do not sped time for IT administration, searching new spam filtering methods, implementing new archiving e-mail procedures, scripting, discovering new IT solutions, training new project managing methodologies. Why your company tries to create best IT company? In fact in such situation you became depended from people work for you. Isn’t it dangerous? If you want your business be as good as possible you should use as many as possible outsourcing services. Including SMI.

IT specialists

As you probably can believe almost every company from IT sector have better specialists in IT than your company. Why? Because they have much more projects finished and they work for a lot of customers not one. They improve their knowledge with every contact with other IT specialists. You have to know that sometime in the worst moment your administrator maybe want to change the job. It would be a dangerous situation for your company. If you want to protect such situation your administrator must be over paid or you have to deploy an advanced methodology of sharing IT knowledge, you must train your staff, you must implement a lot of IT procedures. Ones again. Why your company must be great IT company? Maybe you should do best you do... (if you have really good and ambitious staff one day they will want to work at IT sector – they want to grow)

As SMI! is focused on e-mail protection we have the best specialists from this area. It would be much more complicated to your company to employ such people from the market.

Network traffic

As our service is outside your company and we stop unwanted messages you receive just proper messages. Today malicious messages are about 85% of all mail traffic. The conclusion is that your network bandwidth become much more better.

Support 24 / 7

It is really expensive to provide non-stop support of engineers. We provide you such support.

Diversification

We provide you 4 Data Centers in 3 countries. As standard you give the main filtering server and one backup server. This means that if the main server faults the backup one will still receive and filter your messages. Even if you want to stop your mail server we will queue the messages and we will forward them if your server become available.

Backup servers

As said before you receive two additional servers (MX) so your availability for your customers become better.

Startup time

SMI! Managed Service usually can be started within few hours from your decision to use it.

Scalability

Our solution is designed to small and medium companies as well to huge enterprises. We have a lot of small companies and we have a lot of > 2000 clients.

Great pricing

Our solution, including the best anti-spam and best anti-virus starts from 1 euro per mailbox per moth. Even if you find cheaper solution it will be not including our patented statically based anti-spam and anti-virus. Remember that if you compare price of SMI! Managed Service with other software based solutions you should add all costs described in first section of this page (Extremely low TCO). You have to know also that with every new protected mailbox we have better prices from our vendors. Are you able to buy licenses at level of half a million of protected mailboxes? More about pricing and licensing policy you can read in Licensing & Pricing Policy section