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BURLINGTON, MA – June 4, 2007 – groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and the leading Software as a Service (SaaS) provider of private label services including Microsoft Exchange Server, announced today that it is now offering private label Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, which provides significant upgrades to the industry-leading platform for e-mail, mobility and collaboration. This private label Hosted Exchange Server 2007 is immediately available to channel partners and resellers to help meet the unique messaging needs of their customers. Â
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groupSPARK is the first provider to bring private label Hosted Exchange Server 2007 to market using the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) Version 4.0 – the only platform that Microsoft has designed, tested and validated for Exchange Server 2007 hosting.
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Benefits of Private Label Hosted Exchange. According to a recent survey of the hosted services market by Osterman Research, the market for Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server will grow from its current base of 1.4 million mailboxes to over 7 million mailboxes by 2009. This growth represents over $600 million in new revenues. In order to get started in the SaaS market, an Exchange hosting provider needs to spend between $250,000 - $500,000 in capital expenses for servers, enterprise-grade SAN, software and systems as well $200,000 on an ongoing basis(1)
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“With the substantial growth in demand for collaborative messaging, more and more service providers are interested in offering Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2007,†said John Zanni, director of Worldwide Hosting at Microsoft Corp. “By working with companies such as groupSPARK, who utilize the Microsoft HMC platform, resellers can offer their customers advanced messaging and collaboration solutions, and increase their revenue per user with minimal risk and time to market.â€groupSPARK enables its channel partners/resellers to be up and running in minutes without incurring high initial investments or recurring management costs. As part of groupSPARK’s private label SaaS offering, their state-of the-art Private Label Application Delivery (PLAD) platform allows partners/resellers to easily re-brand its entire service so that all URLs, logos and contact information on its control panel are branded with the partners’ look and feel. The partner can also integrate the branded control panel into their own web portal, thus, providing their end customers a completely seamless experience of utilizing services provided by the partner versus those hosted by groupSPARK. Alternatively, if a partner prefers to keep the customer experience within their existing control panel, PLAD also exposes an XML Web Services API for provisioning, billing and reporting functionality. These capabilities and integration options have allowed large and small partners to offer Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server using groupSPARK’s platform.
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“groupSPARK partners are able to significantly increase their average revenue per user by offering hosted Microsoft Exchange Server as an additional service to their customers,†stated Ravi Agarwal, groupSPARK chief executive officer. “They can take advantage of our powerful private label technology and are able to utilize Microsoft’s validated HMC technology for Exchange Server Hosting without any of the upfront investment or time delay. This lets them take advantage of the explosive growth in the hosted Microsoft Exchange Server marketplace.â€
About groupSPARK Located in Burlington, Massachusetts, groupSPARK is a leading provider of SaaS Â 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. Â
(1)groupSPARK internal estimates for a platform which will scale up to 10,000 mailboxes. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Â
In our continuing effort to help you support your customers, we have launched the new Status Page for groupSPARK (http://status.groupspark.com). Now, if a problem is reported by one of your customers, you can easily refer to this page for any information that we hay have about it.
To make things even easier for you, we have created a page that has no branding which you can incorporate into your website if you would like : http://status.groupspark.com/Server_Status.php. You can point your users to the unbranded page, or enclose it in an iframe as part of your own site
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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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 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.
Burlington, MA, October 2, 2006 – groupSPARK today announced the signup of the 500th partner for its GAIN Partner Program. Working from the ground up groupSPARK developed PLAD - Private Label Application Delivery™ Platform - which enables channel partners and resellers to private label the entire Hosted Exchange service – including SharePoint, Blackberry Server, and Good Server. This allows the partners to provide this valuable solution to their small-mid sized customers and create an easy recurring revenue stream with no ongoing work and minimal investment.
“Until recently, ISPs and hosting companies had to develop the service in-house requiring a large capital investment for both equipment and manpower to implement and maintain a Hosted Exchange offering†says Ravi Agarwal, CEO of groupSPARK. “groupSPARK provides this needed service to ISPs and hosting companies allowing them to tap into a nearly untouched billion dollar market. We are one of the fastest growing Exchange Hosting companies in the U.S. and reaching this 500 partner milestone proves this out.â€
Only four months ago, groupSPARK announced their 400th Hosted Exchange Partner had signed. “We have been very aggressive with the press and trade shows. Microsoft has invited us to speak with them and to have a presence in their booths at trade shows. All of these factors are definitely helping us continue to grow.†says Mr. Agarwal.
Burlington, MASSACHUSETTS, May, 2006 – Arguably the biggest improvement in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 is the efficient Public Folder Settings Wizard allowing for seamless system administration. The addition of this new software package is more than welcoming to the tech support team at GROUPspark.com, a leading exchange hosting company and provider of useful exchange server related news and events, http://www.groupspark.com.
The new Public Folder Settings Wizard replaces the old dated propagate settings with a new “manage settings†selection from the “All Tasks†menu. The older propagate settings were accessed through the menu commands allowing administrators to copy specified properties of a selected public folder to the subfolders beneath it. Now with the selection of “Manage Settings†once right-clicking an administrator is prompted with an easy to follow wizard system.
The Public Folders Wizard will allow an administrator to choose one of three options; modify client permissions, modify lists of replica servers and overwrite settings – make sure to use the settings of the folder that you selected to overwrite the settings of all of its subfolders.
In addition to the Public Folders Wizard, Service Pack 2 has a plethora of options allowing for easier administrator from the ability to synchronize hierarchy, stopping and resuming public folder content replication, tracking public folder deletions, and the ability to delete public folder stores.
Although these additions found in Service Pack 2 can not create a fool proof system things are getting close. Now with the addition of the Public Folder Settings Wizard, administrators can manage their network users and permissions with much ease and organization reducing the amount of clutter commonly found in network hierarchies.
About GROUPspark
GROUPspark, Inc is the #1 rated Exchange Hosting company, thanks to our outstanding uptime, delightful customer service and laser-like focus on running robust Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers.
For nine years now - since 1997, we’ve been in the hosting business. And for the last five years, we have been helping small businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server. Our servers are located in a tier-1 data center. With multiple layers of redundancy and focus on the highest levels of security, our infrastructure is designed to make you productive and secure.
For additional information about GROUPspark.com and their exchange hosting, check their web site at http://www.groupspark.com/.
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