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Reduce Costs In Your Company's IT Department
StreetSmart is the logical choice when looking to:
  • Reduce costs in your company's IT department
  • Set up a new collaboration network
  • Replacing existing software or hardware

The StreetSmart product suite consists of several online collaboration tools that companies of any size need to exist in today's competitive business climate. Tools such as Company Email, Shared Calendar, Document Management, Work Flow Management, just to name a few.

The StreetSmart two-part philosophy is one that stems from over ten years of developing collaboration software and working with companies to achieve their businesses requirements.

  1. "Why build technology when you can license it at a fraction of the cost"
    Let's face it, companies are faced with far more important business challenges then having to worry about building or installing information technology and collaboration tools. Many businesses feel it is easier and less expensive to set up a company network and purchase collaboration software to achieve a company Intranet or collaboration system. This just isn't so. Our research shows that most new companies of 5 to 25 employees spend on average anywhere from ten thousand to fifty thousand dollars within the first year of business setting up email, online calendars, etc. Even more startling is established companies spend this amount and more about every three years on hardware and software licensing upgrades.., not to mention the training of IT personnel when installing new systems. With StreetSmart, you can start with no up front investment, deliver cutting edge online tools to your employees or group for just pennies per day.

  2. "Free your IT department and let them show you how great they are"
    Most companies have an over burdened IT department that spends most of its time chasing Internet access issue, user email complaints, etc. As a result, the IT staff cannot use their industry specific knowledge and core competency to create an Information Technology structure that gives the company a competitive advantage by leveraging online automation. With StreetSmart, companies benefit from a foundation of IT functions, such as user management tools, access control, email and virus protection, local and remote email service, document management and more, are provided in an easy to manage user friendly online software service. With StreetSmart, your IT staff can spend their time in creative ways specific to their industry and rest assured that StreetSmart will maintain the company productivity by managing the company's general IT services. No need to worry about loss in productivity, or worse missing data after a hard drive crashes with no backup and recovery strategy in place.

What Is StreetSmart Exactly?

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StreetSmart is a powerful yet low cost alternative to larger more costly Groupware systems like Exchange, GroupWise and Lotus, just to name a few. StreetSmart provides a complete suite of integrated applications, including features such as Email Server, Web-mail Software, Personal Calendar, Shared Calendars, Personal File Sharing, Document Library, Personal News Portals, Address Book, Mailing Lists, Web Publisher, Personal Account Management Tools and Administrator Site Management Tools.

Provided as a web-based system, StreetSmart does not require a large up front investment, and can be securely managed Online. A complete suite of IT applications are available to your staff wherever they have access to the Internet.

StreetSmart delivers the greatest return on investment for business. By consolidating individual network services into one online Intranet site companies dramatically reduce their IT operating expense. Also, by employing a managed service, companies eliminate costly application management and network management rolls. The best part however is through outsourcing you will eliminate future hardware purchases and software upgrades.

The ROI table below shows how much of a cost savings your company can attain by employing StreetSmart. The ROI calculation is based on a small company with 25 employees. Information Source CDW Jan, 2007.

Expense Item

Description

1st Year Cost

Hardware

1 mid-range network server

$ 3,000.00

Software - Windows 2003

Operating System

$ 1,600.00

Software - Exchange

Collaboration, email, calendar, file sharing, addressbook.

$ 1,632.00

Software - Terminal services

Remote access software

$ 679.00

Software - Virus Protection

Symantec Anti-Virus

$ 429.00

Software - Firewall

Microsoft Internet Security

$ 1,449.00

Personnel - IT Manager

50% Duty Network Administrator

$ 40,000.00

 
  Total Annual Cost on Average

$ 48,789.00

 
  Total Annual Cost of StreetSmart

$ 1,710.00



Here's What You Get With StreetSmart: Top

Standard StreetSmart Applications
This consists of the standard services such as Email, Calendar, Address Book, and Document Management.


StreetSmart Also Gives You:

Email Hosting Server
A complete corporate email hosting service with Webmail email client, virus protection, spam filtering tools and email archiving, auto responders and more.

Included

$ 0.0

Outlook and Palm Synchronization
Synchronize your StreetSmart Calendar, Tasks, and Address book with Outlook, Palm and other popular PDA devices.

Included

$ 0.0

Personal Portals
Stream News, Weather, Sports, Press Releases. Customize you own desktop, start page or executive dashboard.

Included

$ 0.0

Knowledge Management
Archive vital company knowledge for products, projects, policies and procedures. Comes with powerful search engine.

Included

$ 0.0

Content Management
Publish and manage content, create department Web pages, and portal content using Web based publishing tools.

Included

$ 0.0

Instant Messaging
Collaborate in real-time with employees inside or outside of the office. StreetSmart IM also works with other popular IM software.

Included

$ 0.0

Employee Directory
List and display company phone numbers and extensions, cell phone numbers, email addresses, etc.

Included

$ 0.0

Workflow and Task Management
Assign project tasks, document work processes and employee performance. Each task is ticketed and has email notification.

Included

$ 0.0

Company Library
Share common files and document, access control aids in allowing or restricting access to data based on employee type.

Included

$ 0.0

Access Control
Control your Intranet's access for users, data, and applications. Grant viewing to specific users, groups and even the general public in a safe and secure fashion.

Included

$ 0.0

Online Help Library
Easy access to system help information and How-To examples, site configuration and setup and content publishing.

Included

$ 0.0

Site Management Tools
Extensive site management tools that allow site administrators full control over configuration, access and behavior of the site.

Included

$ 0.0

Backup
Rest easy that your Intranet or Extranet site is safe from data loss. All StreetSmart sites are backed up every 24 hrs.

Included

$ 0.0

 

Annual Net Cost

$ 1,710.00



How Does StreetSmart Work? Top

StreetSmart is comprised of an online operating system or platform and a suite of applications that facilitate group interaction and collaboration for any size company. StreetSmart reduces overhead costs, streamlines processes, and facilitates communication.

Users are no longer bound to a specific computer or a specific location. StreetSmart applications are web-based and users can access their data such as mail, calendar appointments, files, tasks and more from any computer with a browser. In effect StreetSmart provides a Desktop in the Sky to users.

Although StreetSmart is offered as a complete suite with a variety of applications, features can be operated standalone or as a group. Administration of StreetSmart is also completely web-based. Administrators can configure features or completely turn them on or off with a few clicks of a mouse.

Deployment Methods

StreetSmart is offered as a fully managed ASP service or as a fully managed StreetSmart server that can be placed in your company's data center or in the StreetSmart data center, StreetSmart servers are dedicated to only your company and is not a share hosting environment.

StreetSmart ASP - Hosted And Managed

StreetSmart ASP is a 100% hosted and managed service that allows companies to deploy a fully functional Intranet, Extranet or Community site without having to purchase expensive hardware and software. Not to mention hiring IT personnel.

StreetSmart ASP offers the following benefits.

  • Low licensing cost, as little as $.10 per user per day.
  • No hardware to purchase.
  • No software to set up.
  • Platform independent.
  • Rapid deployment, usually within a couple of days.
  • No IT staff required to manage.
  • Works with other ASP services.
  • Secure.

StreetSmart Server - In-House

The StreetSmart In-House server is a dedicated system that can be installed inside the company data center or at an off-site ISP collocation. The system can be managed remotely by InfoStreet offering many of the StreetSmart ASP advantages, and can also be managed by your in-house IT staff. As with all StreetSmart server solutions integration with in-house software, third party applications or the creation of custom StreetSmart based features is available.

StreetSmart In-House server offers the following benefits.

  • Very Low licensing cost, as little as $.05 per user per Day.
  • Minimal setup fee.
  • No software to set up.
  • Rapid deployment, usually within 30 days.
  • Easy integration with existing internal applications.
  • Secure, can be place behind your company firewall.

StreetSmart Server - Off-Site

StreetSmart Off-Site server is a dedicated system similar to our In House server however it is hosted within the InfoStreet/StreetSmart data center. This approach offers many advantages over StreetSmart ASP and In House. Companies can enjoy the same dedicated server benefits as a Black Box system but with the addition of having a fully managed Intranet or Extranet service as with StreetSmart ASP.

StreetSmart Off-Site server offers the following benefits.

  • Very Low licensing cost, as little as $.10 per user per day.
  • Minimal setup fee.
  • No software to set up.
  • Rapid deployment, usually within 30 days.
  • Easy integration with existing internal applications.
  • Secure, sensitive internal data remains behind your firewall.
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