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Verizon Adds WebOffice to Small Business Portfolio

November 19, 2008


By Mike Peters

Verizon has announced that WebOffice, a collaborative Web-based tool allowing businesses to work online with employees and customers is now available to small and medium-sized businesses. WebOffice is available as a stand-alone product, or it can be added to Verizon Flex Business for Internet (VFBI) at a discounted price. Verizon introduced VFBI in August to its business customers nationwide. The broadband productivity package offers a discount to businesses that have either a high-speed Internet or FiOS Internet connection bundled with Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess wireless service.

Verizon WebOffice Removes Barriers for Businesses

"WebOffice is a great tool that removes the barriers of space and time and allows businesses to meet, access databases, and manage files without any additional hardware or software," said Monte Beck, vice president for business marketing at Verizon. "It complements Verizon's Flex Business for Internet and helps keep businesses connected in the office and on the road 24/7."

WebOffice is a powerful but easy-to-use Web-based service that allows users to collaboratively work with peers, clients, and vendors in a secure virtual intranet environment - meeting online to integrate their work, develop ideas, set goals, and manage projects and business ooperations - all in real time. Because it is a hosted service, WebOffice does not require any hardware investment by the customer; there is no software to buy or install, and no need for in-house IT to support the service. All that is required to use WebOffice is a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection, and a Web browser.

Verizon Provideds WebOffice Access from the Office, Home, or on the Road

WebOffice eliminates workspace borders by offering anytime access wherever the user needs to work: in the office using Verizon's digital subscriber line-based high-speed Internet or its FiOS Internet service; at home; or on the road using Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess from virtually anywhere in the world. Users can coordinate schedules and calendars, share documents (with secure access control), build and utilize databases, host Web meetings, manage expense reports, make announcements, and more, from their desktop or notebook computer. And WebOffice's interactive Web conferencing capability can eliminate the need for costly business travel.