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Lansing IT Company Transforms Business with Virtual Workspace

Lansing's Center for Business Innovation (CBI) has launched its new "Partner Login" site; www.login.cbipartner.com.

This site provides CBI partners access to multiple technology tools and resources under one platform, while allowing them to maximize their time and budgets spent on technology.

This simple and multifunctional login site provides an atmosphere for company growth, workflow and profitability.

"Businesses rely heavily on the availability of their applications and the integrity of their data, especially their e-mail," said Douglas Horne, CBI technology director. "The Partner Login site enables us to fully secure and protect each partners' applications, ensuring availability to the important tools which allow our partners' businesses to succeed."

The Partner Login site provides CBI partners' access to their personalized Virtual Workspace, allowing users to access their applications and e-mail from anywhere, at any time and on any device through mobile device synchronization.

Microsoft Corp. reports on www.microsoft.com that "virtualization solutions help companies to reduce their total cost of ownership, increase business agility and continuity, enable anywhere access, and improve security and compliance." The businesses CBI partners with are also experiencing the benefits of a virtual workspace.

"The advanced reliability of our company e-mail through the Partner Login site has provided our agents with constant communication with their clients, providing excellent customer services for them," said Kris VanDeventer, operations manager of Coldwell Banker Hubbell Briarwood. "The shared resources and mobile synchronization our agents have access to, have improved communication and productivity by far, it's phenomenal!"

Partners are able to handpick applications specific to their business, including applications like Microsoft Office, Electronic Medical Records packages and accounting software, such as Microsoft Dynamics GP. Also included in the Partner Login site is quick and easy access to a company's web mail, e-mail archive, remote backup files and e-mails that have been quarantined as spam. The Partner Login site is also equipped with an online support incident tool, allowing businesses to track, review and submit new incidents.

More at www.cbipartner.com.

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