OfficeDesktop Partners with Jamcracker to Offer OfficeDesktop Messaging
and Collaboration Suite
OfficeDesktop to be distributed through the Jamcracker Services Delivery Network.
ARLINGTON, VA - June 14, 2011 - OfficeDesktop, a hosted messaging and collaboration service provider, and Jamcracker, the cloud services brokerage enablement company, today announced that OfficeDesktop Messaging and Collaboration Suite will be distributed through the Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN). OfficeDesktop offers a premiere suite of truly integrated business class email, online file sharing and transfer, calendar, contacts, mobile syncing and collaboration spaces in a wholesale-only distribution model.
JSDN allows service providers, resellers and vendors to quickly and efficiently deliver cloud services to businesses and consumers. This partnership will enable Jamcracker to offer OfficeDesktop - an integrated messaging, storage and collaboration suite - through its global services delivery network of distribution partners including communications and IT services providers.
"OfficeDesktop is the perfect solution to service providers looking to provide a robust, feature-rich messaging and collaboration solution to their market and client base as an alternative to Microsoft and Google offerings," said Bob Mathew, CTO of OfficeDesktop. "Our wholesale-only distribution model and highly competitive wholesale rates allow our partners to provide a superior offering to the major players in the market while still being able to realize a healthy profit. And no service today integrates email and document management in the cloud as well as OfficeDesktop does."
OfficeDesktop is an integrated suite of on-demand business collaboration tools: online file sharing and transfer, collaboration teamspaces (extranets and intranets), shared calendars and contacts and business email. With the OfficeDesktop Collaboration Suite, businesses can:
1. Work smarter and be flexible.
OfficeDesktop's collaboration tools can accommodate a wide variety of business processes and workflows. Organizations as diverse as a small-town construction company, a two-person consulting firm, and a large international non-profit use our service.
2. Customize collaboration.
Share files with finely-tuned or broad folder permissions. Create shared calendars and contact lists. Build extranets for vendors and clients. Choose how to share and collaborate. Email, calendars, contacts and tasks can be synced to a variety of smartphones using ActivSync technology.
3. Enjoy security, reliability and privacy.
OfficeDesktop's redundant infrastructure is in SAS-70 certified carrier-grade data centers. 256-bit SSL encryption, admin-controlled password security, and account-level database schema protects your data. 30-day backup included. OfficeDesktop is an enterprise-grade solution with the strictest privacy policy in the industry.
"Jamcracker enables communications and IT services providers to create their own branded marketplaces and offer 'best-of-breed' cloud services to their business customers. It also enables cloud services brokerages for IT departments within larger enterprises so they can provision, deliver and manage internally and externally hosted services for their organizations' employees," said Steve Crawford, vice president of marketing and business development at Jamcracker. "We are committed to aggregating and delivering the broadest selection of leading cloud services, and are pleased to extend OfficeDesktop through our services delivery network."
About the Jamcracker Services Delivery Network
The Jamcracker Services Delivery Network (JSDN) enables service providers and distributors to get to market quickly and cost-effectively with the ability to aggregate and deliver cloud services. The JSDN provides distribution partners the ability to deliver cloud services via their own private-branded marketplaces to their customers and through their channel partners.
Different types of cloud service offerings can be delivered with a single point of provisioning, access, security, billing, administration and support. The JSDN is powered by a highly scalable and distributed architecture; with technology, operations, support infrastructure, market knowledge, and services delivery business processes established over a decade of definition, development and refinement.
About Jamcracker
Jamcracker enables Service Providers, IT Providers and Enterprise IT organizations to become Cloud Services Brokerages, allowing them to unify cloud services delivery and life-cycle management for their customers, their employees and through their channel partners. Jamcracker was founded in 1999 by K.B. "Chandra" Chandrasekhar, who previously founded Exodus Communications and led it through the most successful IPO of 1998. Jamcracker was recently designated by Gartner as a 'Cool Vendor in Cloud Services Brokerages.'
About OfficeDesktop
OfficeDesktop is the flagship Cloud offering from Catalyst Web Services, LLC which also d/b/a OfficeDesktop. The company was founded in 2003 to provide affordable, Web-based messaging and collaboration solutions to small and medium sized businesses. OfficeDesktop is one of the few Cloud service providers with a wholesale-only business model; its channel partners include both IT companies and telcos. Learn more about OfficeDesktop at http://onlinedemo.officedesktop.com; www.cloudcatalogue.com/officedesktop; and www.officedesktop.com.
