Ensim
Unify Manager for SharePoint Launched to Give Hosters
Fastest Path to New Revenue Opportunities [January
20, 2004]
Sunnyvale, Calif., Jan. 20, 2004 –
Ensim Corporation, the global leader in hosting automation
software, today launched Ensim Unify Manager for SharePoint.
With the release of this latest snap-in software, only
Ensim Unify offers hosting service providers (HSPs)
a single infrastructure to manage hosting operations
for Microsoft ASP.NET-based Web sites, Exchange Server
2003 and now Windows SharePoint Services. Adding Ensim
Unify Manager for SharePoint to Ensim’s robust
portfolio of ready-to-deploy solutions gives HSPs the
fastest path to new Microsoft software-based revenue
opportunities.
“We are seeing tremendous interest
from smaller businesses wanting to take advantage of
hosted Microsoft-based services,” said Joshua
Beil, vice president at Tier 1 Research. “With
Ensim Unify, hosters can rapidly deploy one or more
of the snap-in services all on a single platform, allowing
their customers to realize the benefits of these hosted
services, with little risk and low upfront costs.”
Ensim Unify was cooperatively developed
by Microsoft Corp. and Ensim to give the hosting industry
an operations support system and a portfolio of snap-in
software for key hosted services, including Windows
SharePoint Services, Exchange Server 2003 and Web sites
built with ASP.NET. With Ensim Unify, HSPs get a common
set of processes for all hosted services and a single
point of integration for existing business systems,
new services and emerging technologies.
Ensim Unify Manager for SharePoint enables
users to support the full capabilities of Windows SharePoint
Services. Businesses can now create Web-based intranets
that simplify collaboration on documents, tasks, contacts,
events and other information. Managers can use these
environments to quickly and easily coordinate site content
and user activity, boosting individual and team productivity.
“Windows SharePoint Services enables
HSPs to provide businesses with a breadth of collaborative
services never before offered,” said Pascal Martin,
general manager for the Communications and Mobility
Solutions Group at Microsoft. “Our close alliance
with Ensim provides the hosting industry with a complete
set of snap-in solutions for delivering the next generation
of software as hosted services.”
“Before Ensim Unify, HSPs needed
to build separate infrastructures for each hosted offering.
Those days are over,” said Steve Dauber, vice
president of marketing for Ensim Corporation. “With
Ensim Unify, HSPs can quickly and easily introduce new
hosted services, accelerating their time to revenue,
reducing costs and minimizing risk.”
Ensim Unify Manager for SharePoint Features
· Centrally manages and allocates
all Windows SharePoint Services resources
· Provisions complex service plans
· Comprehensive resource monitoring and server
status
· Robust service usage tracking capabilities
and logical resource usage
· Centralized authentication and authorization
· Support for SOAP/XML Web services interfaces
for integration
· Secure, role-based self-management capabilities
Product Availability
Ensim Unify Manager for SharePoint will be available
at the end of January 2004, and will be sold exclusively
through the Ensim sales force.
About Ensim Corporation
Ensim Corporation is the global leader in developing
and providing software solutions for the Web and application
hosting industry. Over 18,000 service providers worldwide
use Ensim’s products to automate the provisioning,
metering and management of their hosting offerings.
Ensim’s professional-grade software currently
hosts more than 500,000 Web sites and five million mailboxes,
with an annual growth rate exceeding 100 percent. The
company's comprehensive product line includes control
panels, virtual private servers, server management,
as well as the industry’s first Operations Support
System for hosting applications. For more information,
please visit our Web site at www.ensim.com, or call
toll free 1/877-693-6746 within the United States, or
1/408-745-3300 if you are calling from outside the United
States.
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Ensim and the Ensim logo are registered trademarks of
Ensim Corporation and WEBppliance is a trademark of
Ensim Corporation. Ensim Unify Manager SharePoint is
copyrighted by Ensim Corporation. All trademarks or
registered trademarks contained herein are the property
of their respective owners.
For
more information: http://www.ensim.com
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Helen Thorvald
Ensim Corporation
1366 Borregas Drive
Santa Clara , California 95050 USA
hthorvald@ensim.com
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