Realestate.com.au adopts cloud email

Telstra has scored a win for its T-Suite software as a service platform, with property website realestate.com.au signing up for the platform's Microsoft Exchange email product for 750 employees across Australia, Italy, Luxembourg and Hong Kong.

Signed a couple of weeks ago, it is the largest T-Suite deal since the platform was launched in April 2009, Telstra said.

"We were running an outmoded corporate email system. Taking advantage of the resilience, cost efficiencies and managed convenience offered by Microsoft Exchange Online through T-Suite made much more sense," realestate.com.au parent REA Group's chief information officer Daniel Oertli said in a statement.

Executive director of Telstra business marketing, Brian Harcourt, said that REA's decision showed T-Suite was not just for the small end of town.

"It proves T-Suite is an efficient and cost-effective solution for larger businesses as well as the many thousands of small businesses that have already signed up over the past year. Companies like REA Group are finding it lowers upfront costs, is easy to use and is secure," he said.