Integrators Offering The Planet’s Hosted Microsoft SBS Solution Increase Revenue, Research Suggests
December 11, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Integrators offering The Planet’s (http://www.theplanet.com) Hosted Microsoft SBS solution benefit from increased revenue, research conducted by Michael Suby with Frost & Sullivan’s Stratecast Partners suggests.
The research (entitled “The Planet’s Hosted Microsoft SBS Service: Delivers More Customers, Revenue and Profits to System Integrators”) is presented as a white paper which outlines “wide-ranging economic benefits and business value” for system integrators (and their customers) who use The Planet’s Microsoft SBS solution. It also indicates how The Planet’s partners can increase their profits “by more than 20% per customer” without additional upfront costs.
“System integrators are the trusted advisors for their customers, and they are tasked with providing IT solutions that enable their clients to focus on running their businesses,” explained The Planet’s Senior Product Manager, Carl Meadows. “By partnering with The Planet, system integrators can expand their product portfolios. They can offer many of the same services they provide on-site, all hosted in our world-class datacenters. This allows SI’s to move toward a richer, service-based model versus one based expressly on hardware purchases and billable hours. Even better, their clients gain access to enterprise-class service without the burden of having to manage or finance the infrastructure.”
The Planet offers a complete enterprise-class “IT portfolio-in-a-box” that includes Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office SharePointServer and Microsoft SQL Server, bundled with anti-virus and spam protection, and a comprehensive data backup solution.
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