"All in all I am very pleased and impressed
with their service. The tech support staff helped
me make this a very smooth transition. They are
undoubtedly professionals in this field and I'm
glad we made the move to their service. Only
wish we did it sooner."
:: Rick Heyn
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Email has grown to become the primary communications tool for businesses of all sizes and with it we have seen the rapid growth in spam, viruses and other threats that can not only attack a single computer but an entire network. Businesses are searching for solutions that don’t just eliminate spam but also protect their whole infrastructure by removing malicious viruses and worms before they ever reach internal systems.
Protect your customers with MX Logic Premium Spam Filtering and MX Logic Disaster Recovery Services.
MX Logic Premium Spam Filtering Service
This multi-layered service establishes a sophisticated email defense which integrates spam filtering and analysis, protection from electronic fraud, and complex filtering of unsolicited and offensive inbound email content and attachments.
MX Logic Disaster Recovery Service
MX Logic Disaster Recovery Service brings together the in-bound spam filtering and analysis of the Premium Spam Filtering Service with out-bound email analysis and message continuity enabling businesses to communicate even during network outages or natural disasters.
Why should you resell groupSPARK hosted business services?
• Offer your customers best-in-class spam filtering and other hosted business services from a recognized leader in the hosting industry. groupSPARK was named by Microsoft as their 2008-2009 Hosting Partner of the Year.
• Ensure the relationship you have with your customers is protected. groupSPARK’s private label hosted services and fully brandable control panel ensure that you maintain and build upon the business relationship you have worked so hard to develop with your customers.
• As a groupSPARK reseller you can add high-margin services to your product portfolio which generate monthly recurring revenue per user. No large initial capital outlay or deployment delays ensure you can start selling leading business services immediately, under your own brand with not risk.
• All of the groupSPARK hosted business services including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, MX Logic spam filtering, archiving services and email support for mobile devices are all integrated into one, easy to use web-based control panel. With just a few clicks of a mouse you and your customers can quickly enable and manage the hosted services that meet their specific needs.
- Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM joins Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services, and email archiving as private-label hosted software services sold to small and mid-size businesses through groupSPARK channel partners. -
Burlington, MA – September 30, 2009 – groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and the leading provider of private-label hosted software services, today announced the immediate availability of hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The release of hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM enables reseller partners to offer their small and mid-size business (SMB) customers a new enterprise-class hosted software service in addition to hosted Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services and email archiving which they are currently able to resell under their own brands.
Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft applications such as Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Office Excel and allows SMB customers to more efficiently target new clients, drive sales and establish long-term customer relationships. Such capabilities as creating targeted marketing campaigns, analyzing customer data and reporting on sales opportunities in real time, help to streamline sales, marketing and customer service efforts, thereby increasing corporate productivity.
With the addition of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 to its current offering of hosted business services, groupSPARK resellers can now present their customers with a full breadth of services under their own brand through groupSPARK’s Private-Label Application Delivery (PLAD) platform. groupSPARK’s PLAD platform enables its reseller partners to resell these services in as little as 30 minutes using their own corporate branding and URL. It is another opportunity for them to expand their relationship with their customers and increase monthly recurring revenue per user. Resellers are also able to focus on their core strengths while groupSPARK focuses on providing best-in-class live 24 x 7 x 365 U.S.-based technical support, server maintenance and monitoring, anti-virus and anti-spam protection and guaranteed uptime.
“Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers hosting providers an opportunity to provide compelling enterprise- class hosted services,” said John Zanni, general manager of the Worldwide Software-plus-Services Industry, Microsoft Communications Sector. “By offering Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a hosted service, groupSPARK is providing its resellers with a more robust set of services they can then sell as their own without incurring excessive expenses or deployment delays.”
“groupSPARK resellers can now add hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 to their portfolio of leading hosted business services, including Microsoft Exchange Server and Windows SharePoint Services,” said Bill Flynn, senior executive officer, groupSPARK division of mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc. “These services enable our partners to go to market more quickly and provide the most widely used business applications to their customers at more cost effective prices.”
About groupSPARK
Located in Burlington, Massachusetts, groupSPARK, a mindSHIFT company, is a leading provider of SaaS services including Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and email archiving which can be fully 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.
Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK’s 100% uptime SLA, private label 24×7x635 U.S.-based support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities. For additional information, visit www.groupSPARK.com.
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Lisa Masiello
groupSPARK
781-418-1652
lmasiello@groupspark.com
We are excited to announce the availability of the new groupSPARK Partner Portal – an online repository of sales and marketing tools, tips, and the latest promotions, created specifically for our reseller partners to help them increase their sales of hosted business services.
Some of the materials include:
• Brandable Collateral: Add your company logo and contact information to our unbranded hosted Exchange, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and archiving collateral and distribute under your brand to your customers.
• Website Content Generator: Generate unique hosted services messaging for your web site with just the click of a mouse. HTML code is automatically created and can be pasted into any page of your web site.
• Logo Downloads: Download product logos such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and many others to use on product data sheets, trade show graphics, print ads, banners, and other marketing materials.
Are you a groupSPARK reseller? Contact Johan Malone to receive your unique login credentials and take advantage of the groupSPARK Partner Portal today.
Sunday, July 12, 2009 was one of the hottest days in recent memory but there were enthusiastic smiles all around. groupSPARK employees joined with Microsoft employees and its other partners from around the world to help Habitat for Humanity rebuild homes in New Orleans’ 9th Ward.
As participants at Microsoft’s 2009 Worldwide Partner Conference, we had the unique opportunity to volunteer at the site of some of Hurricane Katrina’s worst devastation. Four years after the hurricane, rebuilding efforts continue and we were happy to arrive in New Orleans before the conference and work side by side with residents to rebuild their homes.
Hammers flew throughout the afternoon as volunteers completed the framing on two new homes in a neighborhood known as the Musicians’ Village. The Musicians’ Village was conceived by New Orleans native son’s Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis who were eager to see the musical heritage of the city return after Hurricane Katrina.
groupSPARK employees are happy to have had the opportunity to offer their time and talents to the residents of New Orleans and look forward volunteering on other projects.
groupSPARK is the first Hosted Exchange messaging and collaboration provider to provide this important tool to their partners.
Windows SharePoint templates are out-of-the-box customized web pages that address the needs and requirements of specific business processes and sets of tasks. They allow for the easy customization of SharePoint services to any business situation for SMBs though SharePoint can be used in organizations of any size.
Even though Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 is a powerful standalone tool, application templates can be plugged in to help customize for specific situations such as:
The Competitive Analysis Site – The Competitive Analysis Site application template helps individuals and teams organize competitive information. The site provides useful document templates helping users perform useful competitive analysis techniques. Links to industry, company and product news can also be included making the site the central location for all industry and competitive news and information.
The Employee Activities Site – The Employee Activities Site application template helps manage the creation and attendance of events for employees. Users can submit event profiles and create event calendar items while other employees use the site to sign up as well as track their full activities list.
The Employee Self-Service Benefits Site – The Employee Self-Service Benefits application template provides a location to inform employees about available benefits as well as enabling them to enroll for each benefit.
The Sports League Site – The Sports League application template helps an intra-company league administrator manage a sports league. The site tracks team information, players, captains and scheduled team activities (including off-field activities). Team members can enter in game results and perform analysis at a team, game or individual player level. The site also enables discussions between league members through a League Discussion board.
In response to some recent suggestions from our Partners, we have begun to institute a Partner Notification System, which will provide our partners updated information on the health of our network. The first phase in implementing this system will be to expose our new Status page, located outside of our network, that shows the current condition for each of the services we run. This Status page should be available to you by the middle of the month, so keep an eye out for more information.
Outlook 2007 is our focus this month. We wanted to give you a few selling points and educate you on some of the cool new functionality you and your users will see with this release.
Advanced searching capabilities – The new Instant Search tool allows users to not only conduct keyword searches of their Outlook 2007 messages but also within e-mail attachments.
Centralized communication management – Users can now read and manage Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds and blogs right from within Outlook 2007. This allows users to organize and manage more of the information they use on a daily basis from one central location.
Less junk mail and improved phishing protection - To help protect users from divulging personal information to a threatening Web site, Outlook 2007 has an improved junk e-mail filter and has added new features that disable links and warn users about threatening content within an e-mail message.
Integration with SharePoint Services 3.0- Users can connect and access SharePoint Services 3.0 documents, calendars, contacts, tasks, and other information through Outlook 2007, giving them a central place to manage information.
We’ve been working hard on improving our BlackBerry Enterprise Server Infrastructure. Our upgrades have been significant and will make our BlackBerry service even more robust. We wanted to share some of what we’ve done with you:
Upgraded Blackberry Enterprise Server Infrastructure by adding two additional servers
The plan is to have one BES server for each Shared Exchange server, and a set of BES servers to handle just the dedicated servers
We’ve seen, through our testing and analysis that restricting the number of users on a Blackberry server to approx 250, will drastically improve performance and reliability.
We’ve got plans to attend a lot of events this year.
ISPCon (spring and fall)
HostingCon
The Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference
The Hosting Transformation Summit
We’ll also be attending a variety of other shows with Microsoft. We’ll make sure and keep you up to date with our event schedule so if you’re attending a show we will be exhibiting at you’ll be able to stop by and chat.
Today more than 85% of all electronic mail traffic on the Internet is unwanted, malicious or offensive. SMBs are under siege from a variety of increasingly sophisticated attacks from hackers, spammers, and phishers. Being a small business doesn’t afford “security through obscurity.”
groupSPARK’s Postini solution blocks spam, viruses, and email attacks, and provides sophisticated message management and policy enforcement capabilities.
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