Thursday, June 24, 2010

Spectranet partners nivio to offer 'Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Services'


Spectranet, an Integrated Communication Services Provider, today announced its partnership with nivio, a cloud computing company, to launch its subscription-based messaging and collaboration service offerings. Spectranet will offer its ‘Hosted messaging and collaboration Services’ on a special ‘Pay- As- You- Go’ and ‘Zero Investment’ model thereby helping businesses to become more productive, efficient and competitive.


Spectranet will offer wide range of hosted solutions right from basic email solutions to high end enterprise applications on the robust Microsoft exchange platform. Supported by the Spectranet’s rapid deployment process, the hosted services will help enterprises and SMBs to achieve significant productivity benefits without any up-front costs.


Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Udit Mehrotra, Director, Spectranet, said, “At Spectranet, we believe in enabling our clients to work efficiently and keep pace in a very competitive market environment. We are focusing a lot on offering innovative ‘Voice & Data’ solutions for the enterprise and BPO sector. In this regard, it gives me immense pleasure to announce our offerings in ‘Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Services’ in partnership with nivio. We see tremendous growth in the overall email market in India growing from mere 15% in 2008 to CAGR of 52% by 2012. There is a huge potential of our hosted services from sectors such as IT/ITeS, BFSI, Government, Manufacturing, Telecom, Health, Retail, Trading etc.


Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Matt Colebourne, Chief Operating Officer, nivio, said, “We are delighted to be working with Spectranet to reach out to a much larger audience and offer hosted messaging and collaboration. Hosted services are the future; enterprises reap the benefits of rapid deployment, best of breed solutions and scalability. They are also liberated from the financial headache of capital expense buying hardware and software and, instead, transform this into monthly spends based on usage.”







Built-in proven anti-spam and anti-virus technologies, hosted services will provide a cost effective and easy to use web interface. Companies will get customized packages basis their need and budget and end users can share emails, contacts, calendars, content and manage multiple tasks without a hindrance. This will be further supported by a 24x7 phone based customer support.


Hosted services also bring in a plethora of benefits such as 100% back up of data, regular software upgrades and updates, optimized data security and high availability of infrastructure with SLA. With these services, end users can improve productivity and get more done by having shared contacts, calendars, share files and messages in public folders and also manage projects by assigning & tracking tasks while accessing information anytime, anywhere.