Burlington, MA November 30, 2006 – groupSPARK, the #1 Private Label Exchange Hosting provider, announced their recent findings from a three-day research project.  In the week following the Thanksgiving holiday (dates ranging from November 27 – 28) email traffic during business hours has dropped over 12%.
 

The data collected during this research project was minimal and no actual facts were collected during the process.  “The information presented is completely anecdotal,” said Duane Batista, groupSPARK’s Partner Manager.  “We’re basing this information almost solely on the behavior of IT departments country wide.  We have seen that recovering from what is one of the biggest eating days of the year and the lingering effects of the ‘turkey coma’ have slowed down everyone here.  It stands to reason that the same thing is happening all across the country.”
 

The Thanksgiving Research Project is the first of many such projects planned for groupSPARK’s marketing department in the coming year.  Plans for the first set of research projects include the “Are people still hungover January 3^rd,” the “what’s the first day when everyone in the office is officially sick of winter,” and the “most amount of Quarter Pounders one can eat before needing medical attention” projects.
 

groupSPARK is hoping to learn absolutely nothing from these research projects other than to continue to show that productivity drops throughout the year by IT departments can be alleviated partially by Hosted Exchange, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and other messaging and collaboration solutions provided by groupSPARK and their partners.
 

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. 
For more information please contact:
 

Al Maguire
Marketing Manager
groupSPARK
781-273-6245 x641
amaguire@groupspark.com
www.groupspark.com

 

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