groupSPARK's Private Label SaaS Services Now Available Through Ingram Micro Seismic
April 22 2008 - 10:32AM
PR Newswire (US)
- groupSPARK significantly increases reseller channel with new
Ingram Micro Seismic agreement. Private label hosted Exchange
Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Dynamics CRM 4.0
will be made available through Ingram Micro Seismic to solution
providers in North America. - BURLINGTON, Mass., April 22
/PRNewswire/ -- groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and
the leading provider of private label hosted software services
including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint
Services 3.0 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, today announced its
private label SaaS services are now being offered as part of Ingram
Micro's Seismic Virtual Services Warehouse. The new agreement
includes groupSPARK's hosted Exchange Server 2007 and 2003, as well
as Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Dynamics CRM 4.0. Ingram
Micro, Inc. (NYSE:IM) is the world's leading distributor of
technology products and services to the IT industry. Ingram Micro's
Seismic Virtual Services Warehouse is part of the distributor's
North America Services Division which provides VARs with a full
range of managed IT services, professional IT labor services, and
warranty contract management services and enables VARs to offer
customers a variety of hosted software services. This new agreement
enables Ingram Micro Seismic to immediately offer industry leading
private label hosted messaging and collaboration solutions from
groupSPARK to partners in the U.S. and Canada. groupSPARK's unique
Private Label Application Delivery (PLAD) platform was designed to
enable resellers to offer the company's hosted services completely
under their own corporate brand, URL, and look and feel. This
private label solution reinforces the resellers' brand with their
customers, deepens their market penetration and enables them to
offer their customers' enterprise-class hosted email and
collaboration solutions at a price set solely by the VAR. In
addition, groupSPARK's hosted Exchange, hosted SharePoint and
hosted CRM offering fortifies customer retention and provides
Ingram Micro Seismic partners with the opportunity to earn
additional monthly recurring revenue per user. As part of Seismic's
hosted solutions portfolio, groupSPARK will maintain, monitor and
upgrade all hardware and software allowing Seismic partners to
offer these hosted software services to their customers without
incurring any upfront expense, delay or risk in attempting to
deploy the services on their own. groupSPARK will also enable
Seismic partners to offer 2-way wireless synchronization with
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), Windows Mobile and Good Mobile
Messaging. "Ingram Micro is at the forefront of the services market
in the IT channel and remains committed to identifying
best-in-class solutions for our Seismic partners," said Justin
Crotty, vice president of Ingram Micro Services Division, North
America. "We selected groupSPARK's private label hosted Microsoft
Exchange, SharePoint and Dynamics CRM services because of its focus
on the VAR brand and its proven track record for providing VARs
with affordable solutions that deliver the email and collaboration
services small and mid-size businesses need to increase
productivity and stay connected." "As the provider of hosted
Exchange Server, SharePoint and CRM to Ingram Micro Seismic, we are
dramatically increasing our reseller channel and reaching a new
group of small and mid-size businesses," said Ravi Agarwal, senior
executive officer, groupSPARK division of mindSHIFT Technologies,
Inc. "Ingram Micro's confidence in our hosted services offering and
our best-in-class service and support is the direct result of our
commitment to and focus on true private label hosting of
enterprise-class services." About groupSPARK Located in Burlington,
Massachusetts, groupSPARK, a mindSHIFT company, is a leading
provider of SaaS services, such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007,
Windows SharePoint Services v3.0, 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, private label 24x7 U.S.-based support and proactive
hardware and software monitoring capabilities. For additional
information, visit http://www.groupspark.com/. About Ingram Micro,
Inc. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro
creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and
resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics
services, technical support, financial services, and product
aggregation and distribution. The company serves 150 countries and
is the only broad-based global IT distributor with operations in
Asia. Visit http://www.ingrammicro.com/. The names of actual
companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of
their respective owners. DATASOURCE: groupSPARK CONTACT: Lisa
Masiello of groupSPARK, +1-781-273-6248, ext. 652, Web site:
http://www.groupspark.com/ http://www.ingrammicro.com/
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