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Burlington, MA August 11, 2006 – groupSPARK today announced plans to be one of the main sponsors at this year’s Hosting Transformation Summit in Las Vegas, NV. The 2006 Hosting Transformation Summit: Hosting 2.0 will focus on the future of the hosting and Internet Infrastructure Services (IIS) industry as it grapples with the opportunities and challenges that accompany heightened attention, increased capital investment and an onslaught of Web2.0 start-ups.
The event will cover the evaluation of leading Internet brands (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay) as a hosting platform for businesses Discussion of how the Web2.0 start-up spree is helping and/or hurting the sector Insights into changes in the pricing model for various Internet infrastructure services and discussion of technologies that help reduce cost and complexity in the hosting platform. Â Real-life case studies of enterprise customers’ experiences with outsourced hosting. Â First-ever details on a new T1R market forecast for IIS services by target customer size. Â Discussion on the sustainability of the investment climate for these services In-depth analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOTs) for key companies along with an ‘ask-the- analyst’ panel on both days to address your specific burning questions.
groupSPARK CEO, Ravi Agarwal, will be on hand to present information on Hosting, the challenges and opportunities that the future will provide.  “This is a good opportunity for us to continue to use the momentum of groupSPARK to help other understand the opportunities that exist already as well as the impact hosting will have on their business going forward,†said Mr. Agarwal.
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The summit will take place Sept 19-20 at the Mirage in Las Vegas. Visit www.tier1research.com for more information.
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groupSPARK is the leading provider of hosted services, such as Microsoft Exchange Hosting, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, that can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.
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Its GAIN partners utilize its turnkey Private Label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes. Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, 24×7x365 support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities.
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groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a privately owned company. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts it is the leading provider of Private Label Microsoft Exchange Hosting.Â
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Burlington, MA June 13, 2006 – groupSPARK, a leading Exchange Hosting provider, today announced a “Fastest Growing Company Top 10†award from Web Host Review. The Fastest Growing awards are intended to showcase fast-moving companies that are increasing quickly in size and prestige. As the only company on the list providing Exchange Hosting, groupSPARK has quickly become one of the largest Exchange Hosting companies.
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This is groupSPARK’s third award received from Host Review. In 2005 groupSPARK won the Top 10 award for Managed Hosting. The Best Managed Hosting Awards are based on the overall product offering, value, customer service and users’ reviews of the selected companies.Â
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“To win any award is good but to have recognition for our growth, both as a company and in how well we’re being received in the industry, is great,†says groupSPARK CEO Ravi Agarwal. “We are growing by leaps and bounds today and I don’t see anything that will be slowing our expansion down. In fact, we see the industry really starting to take off and small to medium sized businesses are embracing the power of hosted Microsoft Exchange Server.â€
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groupSPARK is the leading provider of hosted services, such as Microsoft Exchange Hosting, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, that can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.
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Its GAIN partners utilize its turnkey Private Label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes. Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, 24×7x365 support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities.
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groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a privately owned company. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts it is the leading provider of Private Label Microsoft Exchange Hosting.Â
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Burlington, MA August 11, 2006 – groupSPARK, the #1 Private Label Exchange Hosting provider, announced plans to take part in a panel discussion on Hosting Reliable and Profitable Exchange Services at the Fall ISPCon show in Santa Clara, CA Nov 7-9. groupSPARK has announced plans to exhibit at the show as well continuing with their highly successful “Ups & Downs†marketing campaign.
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“It’s not only a good opportunity to speak at ISPCon, but it also gives us a chance to present the benefits of hosted solutions. We also have Hosted SharePoint, and we have recently begun offering Hosted CRM – the first Private Labeled solution in the industry and to present the benefits of having access to these software packages is really the great thing to promote,†said Ravi Agarwal, CEO of groupSPARK.
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Microsoft Exchange has the lion’s share of the corporate messaging market, with more than 300 million seats deployed worldwide; the increasing market share is undeniable. But Exchange can be a difficult, expensive system to deploy and manage for companies with fewer than 100 employees. This reality, coupled with several new market drivers, has pushed the Hosted Exchange market to finally match the explosive growth estimates that analysts had predicted a few years ago. What does this mean for ISPs, Hosts and colocation providers? In the session, attendees will understand what it takes to add this high-value, high profit service to their portfolio, how to profit from various add-ons in the marketplace, what common price and profit points are, licensing considerations, and how to avoid the pitfalls.
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About groupSPARK Â
groupSPARK is the leading provider of hosted services, such as Microsoft Exchange Hosting, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, that can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.
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Its GAIN partners utilize its turnkey Private Label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes. Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, 24×7x365 support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities.
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groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a privately owned company. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts it is the leading provider of Private Label Microsoft Exchange Hosting.Â
For more information please contact:
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Burlington, MA November 21, 2006 – groupSPARK, the #1 Private Label Exchange Hosting provider, announced the new product offering of Hosted SharePoint 2007. In addition to Hosted Private Label Exchange, SPAM filtering, Dynamics CRM, and archiving, SharePoint 2007 will round out the groupSPARK product offering.
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“There are dozens of new and improved features in SharePoint 2007. There is finally the ability to broadcast information with blogs and capture community knowledge with wikis,†said Ravi Agarwal, CEO of groupSPARK. “That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The new feature set in SharePoint 2007 is a vast improvement over the previous version. It is much more powerful and will allow our end-users the chance to integrate more of their business through the tool. SharePoint 2007 is very new and we are one of the few companies offering it today, which gives our partners a distinct competitive advantage selling SharePoint Services.â€
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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile Windows Server technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to help increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. groupSPARK allows their partners to provide a Hosted version of SharePoint 2007 to their customers in a completely private labeled environment.
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About groupSPARK Â
groupSPARK is the leading provider of hosted services, such as Microsoft Exchange Hosting, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, that can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.
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Its GAIN partners utilize its turnkey Private Label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes. Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, 24×7x365 support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities.
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groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a privately owned company. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts it is the leading provider of Private Label Microsoft Exchange Hosting.Â
For more information please contact:
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Burlington, MA November 12, 2006 – groupSPARK, the #1 provider of Private Label Exchange Hosting and Ferris Research, the leader in messaging and collaboration research, announced recently their plans to jointly participate in a webinar covering Exchange Hosting.
The panel webinar will contain experts in the messaging and collaboration industry including groupSPARK’s CEO, Ravi Agarwal. “This webinar will be a good chance for people interested in learning more about Hosted Exchange to get their important questions answered,†said Mr. Agarwal. “We’ll be covering such topics as how cost-effective hosted messaging is and what the potential impact Microsoft Exchange 07 will have on Exchange Hosters and their customers.â€
During the webinar, panelists will discuss considerations for organizations thinking about outsourcing their messaging function, explore the types and sizes of organizations that Hosted Exchange appeals to, and explore what a typical implementation looks like. Most importantly, Mr. Agarwal will explain what organizations can do to ensure a successful hosted implementation.
The free webinar is being held on November 15th at 11:30 EST. For more information or to register, users can go to www.Ferris.com.
About groupSPARK
groupSPARK is the leading provider of hosted services, such as Microsoft Exchange Hosting, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, that can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.
Its GAIN partners utilize its turnkey Private Label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes. Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, 24×7x365 support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities.
groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a privately owned company. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts it is the leading provider of Private Label Microsoft Exchange Hosting.Â
Ferris Research has the largest team of analysts focused on messaging and collaboration. All Ferris Analysts bring real-life experience in the industry, either as senior IT or vendor staff, ranging from messaging managers to CTOs covering a wide range of technologies. In addition to the core team, Ferris draws upon the skills of a number of people in the industry contributing observations on key trends and providing specialized custom consulting when needed for a client inquiry.
Burlington, MA November 8, 2006 – groupSPARK, the #1 provider of Private Label Exchange Hosting – announced yet another industry leading move - Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, completely Private Labeled. Dynamics CRM is ax premiere Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software available in the marketplace today with an easy to use web-based interface and full Outlook integration. Cost and complexity of building and maintaining a Hosted Microsoft CRM solution have prevented deployment by service providers across the world. As the first Private Label Hosted Microsoft CRM solution in the marketplace, groupSPARK empowers its partners to instantly add Hosted Microsoft CRM to their suite of services to increase revenue and decrease churn.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM allows companies to create a centralized repository of customer data that resides alongside Microsoft Office and Outlook—the applications most employees use every day. From Outlook and a web browser, employees access Microsoft CRM sales, marketing, and customer service modules to make sales decisions, market products, solve problems, and get strategic views of the business.
“Being able to offer Dynamics CRM hosting not only makes our product portfolio more robust but it also provides our partners and their customers with a key business tool that seamlessly integrates all of our hosted products together,†said Ravi Agarwal, CEO of groupSPARK. “In addition to already being the leader in Private Label Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint, we are now also the leader for Private Label Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Our partners around the world can now leverage our suite of Private Label hosted services to help their customers’ increase efficiencies and give them the edge in today’s highly competitive business environment without adding expensive IT staff.â€
For more information on Hosted Dynamics CRM you can go to www.groupSPARK.com or call 800-9-MSEXCH.
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