BURLINGTON, Mass. - May 14, 2007 - groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and leading Private Label Microsoft Exchange Hosting provider, announced today that groupSPARK chief executive officer, Ravi Agarwal, will be speaking at ISPCON Spring Internet industry conference and exhibition.
 

ISPCON Spring will be held at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida from May 23-25, 2007.  The event brings together 2500+ wired and wireless ISPs, CLECs, webhosts, VoIP providers and other Internet industry professionals to discuss all facets of Internet businesses. ISPCON will shine the spotlight on the ‘how’ behind the best technologies and business opportunities of the Internet industry.  Attendees will be able to visit with groupSPARK representatives in booth 414 to discuss Private Label Exchange Hosting services.
 

Ravi Agarwal, groupSPARK chief executive officer, will participate in a panel discussion Strategies for Growing Your Hosted Business Messaging Service.  This panel discussion will focus on how consumer ISPs can broaden customer reach and create new revenue streams by addressing critical needs such as messaging within the enterprise segment.  The discussion will also include challenges faced by businesses in keeping pace with security, legislation and eDiscovery demands on email, the types of services that comprise an attractive hosted messaging suite, and practical first steps.
 

Ravi Agarwal, chief executive officer of groupSPARK states that he will discuss “how companies can take advantage of the explosive growth in Microsoft Exchange and provide a high-value, profitable service to their customers with our 100% Private Label Hosted Exchange solution.” He went on to say that “2007 is the year of Microsoft Exchange and we are pleased that with our leadership role in the hosted Exchange market we were asked to participate on this panel.”

 

About groupSPARK
Located in Burlington, Massachusetts, groupSPARK is a leading provider of hosted services, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Services, and Dynamics CRM, which 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 partners utilize groupSPARK’s 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, 24×7 U.S. based support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities.
 

 

Contact:
Al Maguire
groupSPARK
781-273-6248 x641
amaguire@groupspark.com
www.groupspark.com
111 S. Bedford St., Suite 200
Burlington, MA 01803

First Private Label Hosting Provider to Offer Next Gen Collaboration Environment
BURLINGTON, Mass. — January 8, 2007 – groupSPARK, the leading Private Label Exchange Hosting provider, today announced the immediate availability of a hosted version of Microsoft SharePoint Services v3.0.  Available through groupSPARK partners, this private label version will allow consultants, ISPs and Web hosting companies to provide their customers with the latest in collaboration technology.
 
groupSPARK partners continuously seek ways to bring new capabilities and greater value to their customers.  The availability of SharePoint 3.0 for the first time as a hosted application will allow them to provide small and medium businesses with a secure, scalable – and affordable – enterprise-class portal for team collaboration.
  
“SharePoint 3.0 is a tremendous application for driving organizational effectiveness and companies of all sizes are seeking ways to put it to work for them,” said Ravi Agarwal, chief executive officer of groupSPARK. “By providing our partners with a hosted, private-label version, they are able to bring the benefit of SharePoint 3.0 to a far wider range of companies.”
 
By adopting SharePoint Services v3.0, businesses are able create customized collaboration portals that help increase team productivity, create an organizational community and give individuals more freedom and new capabilities.  The result is that team members – regardless of their location – have the ability to access and work with relevant information.

groupSPARK offers partners hosted SharePoint Services v3.0 plans that are up to 10 GB of storage space which creates new revenue opportunities.  Because groupSPARK manages the hosting and management of the SharePoint servers, partners and end-users get all of the benefits of SharePoint without requiring additional expertise or resources. “Hosted solutions are increasingly seen as the most sensible approach to bringing enterprise-class applications to small and medium businesses,” said Agarwal.  “Our partners are looking for new products and services they can offer to their existing customers while businesses seek ways to gain access to new and powerful applications.  Our host model is meeting the needs of both groups.”
 
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, 24×7×365 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. 

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

 

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.
 

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. 
 

“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.”
 

 

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

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.
 

“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.
 

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.
 

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

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.”
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. 

www.groupSPARK.com

About Ferris Research

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.

www.Ferris.com

For more information please contact:

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

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.”

For more information on Hosted Dynamics CRM you can go to www.groupSPARK.com or call 800-9-MSEXCH.