June 5, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Software as a Service (SaaS) provider groupSPARK (http://www.groupspark.com) is offering private label Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007, it was announced yesterday. The Burlington, Massachusetts company is the first private label SaaS provider to offer Hosted Exchange 2007 on Microsoft’s HMC platform.
Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007 provides “significant upgrades to the industry-leading platform for email, mobility and collaboration” and is “immediately available” to groupSPARK’s channel partners.
“With the substantial growth in demand for collaborative messaging, more and more service providers are interested in offering Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2007,” explained Microsoft’s Director of Worldwide Hosting, Mr. John Zanni. “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.”
A recent survey of the hosted services market suggests the market for Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server will grow from the current 1.4 million mailboxes to over 7 million mailboxes by 2009, representing around $600 million.
groupSPARK enables channel partners/resellers to re-brand a Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server service so that “all URLs, logos and contact information on its control panel are branded with the partners’ look and feel” without inordinate setup costs. The company’s partners can also integrate the branded control panel into their own web portal to provide “end customers a completely seamless experience of utilizing services provided by the partner versus those hosted by groupSPARK”. Alternatively, partners can “keep the customer experience within their existing control panel” for provisioning, billing and reporting functionality.
“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,” suggested Chief Executive Officer at groupSPARK, Mr. Ravi Agarwal. “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.”
