Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Telstra has announced a range of additional applications for T-Suite, its offering of a range of business applications for SMEs delivered under a software as a service model.
Plans for T-Suite were unveiled last June, but with no specific details as to what would be on offer. This was followed by a second announcement in November when Telstra made available the initial applications: McAfee (anti-spam, anti-virus, firewall etc), MessageLabs (email security), Microsoft (hosted Exchange email), SharePoint (collaboration) and Iron Mountain (remote backup).
These were offered at $4 per user per month for desktop security; $10.95 for email; $14 for data back up and $19.95 per service per month for collaboration software. Prices since then have changed somewhat. Security is still $4 and backup $14 but email now costs $16.95 per month and collaboration starts at $7.95 per month. Telstra says that, in most cases businesses can register and start using the software within minutes. Most applications are offered with a free 30 day trial.
Today Telstra has formally launched T-Suite with these and a range of other applications. These include:
- WORKetc, an Australian developed software suite that provides smaller businesses with a web-based system to help with key business tasks including recording billable time, creating invoices, generating quotes, managing projects, tracking sales leads, sharing documents, running an email marketing campaign, scheduling meetings and generating detailed business reports.
- Skoot, which enables small businesses to securely and quickly send and share large files that are too big for email transmission.
- Workforce Guardian, "a comprehensive human resource management service that helps make it easy for businesses to establish policies and procedures that comply with the latest Australian employment laws."
- Microsoft Dynamic CRM
Also in the pipeline are Xero, a small business accounting system from new Zealand that will become available before the end of June and a Microsoft Online Services and Dynamic CRM.
Telstra says it is currently in talks with up to 50 local and international software vendors about future additions to T-Suite.
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