Cutting and elimination of costs can provide immediate financial relief and increase cash flow but it can also compromise the quality of your product which in turn can affect your sales.  Employee morale then goes down and increase in job insecurity goes up.  

With a SharePoint Host as your main server there is only one monthly fee for all the features while the organizational capabilities continue to expand.  The SharePoint host acts as one central access point for all employees thereby cutting down on many costs that used to strain every company's budget.   

Cost Efficient Benefits of Using a Sharepoint Host 

Announcements, power point presentations and training's easily accessed instead of time-consuming meetings that take employees away from their workspace.
Web conferencing and Instant messaging with other members of the team for immediate and precise information
Easily maintained IT with the integrated infrastructure
Control over security of your network and intranet.
Internal social portals provide a place where common interests can generate internal support
Out of the box templates with almost no coding reduces web designer costs
Free pod-casting kit for fast deployment
Smooth and high quality web pages on mobile units like Iphone with the Safari Browser
Using SharePoint for  Enterprise collaboration strategies
Collaborative document, contact and project management
Fast cross site search capabilities
 
 This is the workplace of the future and it is an absolute must for all companies and organizations to focus on implementation of this new collaboration strategy.  Office productivity combined with content management is most the cost effect way to run a business at this time.  Software companies are scrambling to keep up with the technology with rich media, business intelligence, eLearning and new tools to optimize the collaboration process.  With Microsoft collaborating with Apple the SharePoint Host server on the Iphone is leading the pack.   

All of these new applications are making business not only more cost efficient but also more service orientated.  With consumers researching every product and service on the internet through user consumer reports and blogs, the competition is becoming intense.  Transparency is also becoming more commonplace as reports of poor quality or bad service is broadcasted to a large audience in an instant.  
 
In the long run, cutting down on wasted time, paper and energy within the workplace will leave more time and money to focus on service and employee satisfaction, which in turn will increase sales and employee productivity.  At this time CEOs are advised to think of this new collaboration strategy as a business strategy from an IT point of view.