Underscoring Small Business Focus, BroadSpire Joins Intuit's QuickBooks ValueCenter [20th May 2003]

LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BroadSpire, a leading managed IT services provider, today announced that the company has entered a marketing alliance as a participant in Intuit's QuickBooks(R) ValueCenter (www.valuecenter-quickbooks.com), a resource that offers QuickBooks customers savings on products and services they need to run their businesses.

BroadSpire is now featured on QuickBooks ValueCenter, offering QuickBooks customers savings on deploying, managing, protecting, and scaling company websites, Internet applications and critical systems through a stable global hosting network. The QuickBooks ValueCenter makes available a range of BroadSpire's products, which are tailored expressly for small businesses and allow the downloading of customer orders directly into QuickBooks, Intuit's best-selling accounting software for small and medium businesses.

The marketing alliance provides a showcase for BroadSpire's Express Solutions suite of services, which adapts BroadSpire's Enterprise technology into products and services that are delivered within a price range and time frame appropriate to smaller, entrepreneurial companies. BroadSpire Express Solutions cater to small businesses and individual departments of enterprises. To date, BroadSpire Express services have been involved in the design, set up and/or maintenance of more than 50,000 web sites in 30 countries worldwide.

Intuit's QuickBooks ValueCenter is a marketplace that offers an array of products and services for small businesses. The ValueCenter offers QuickBooks customers savings on the products and services that their operation needs. As part of the marketing alliance, site visitors can choose from deals offered on BroadSpire's complete Web presence packages, dedicated server solutions, co-location services, shared web hosting, e-commerce solutions, and domain registration. The QuickBooks ValueCenter affiliation also includes the promotion of BroadSpire's Express Solutions to QuickBooks clients and in other QuickBooks marketing vehicles.

"Now, QuickBooks customers who visit the ValueCenter will find great deals on BroadSpire's Express Solutions' managed services capabilities, which are derived from an enterprise environment but appropriately scaled for small businesses," said Suresh Srinivasan, president and co-founder of BroadSpire. "Our company is redefining the standard for service in the IT infrastructure space, delivering speed, flexibility, security and round-the-clock monitoring, which, collectively, advance customer productivity and ROI -- for businesses of literally any size and stripe."

About BroadSpire

Founded in 1996, BroadSpire (www.broadspire.com) is a leading managed IT services provider, headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif. In delivering outsourced IT, data center outsourcing and fully managed Web hosting services, BroadSpire maintains a strict focus on customer service that has enabled the company to become a best-of-breed provider both in its service offerings and in its customer care. With discrete lines of business for enterprise and small/mid-size businesses, the company serves as a seamless extension of its customers' information technology infrastructure. BroadSpire has earned the trust of more than 2,000 companies worldwide, including BP Amoco, NBC, Yale University, Paramount Pictures, and Sheraton Hotels & Resorts.

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SOURCE: BroadSpire

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