Santa Clara, Calif.—March 29, 2010—OpSource™, the leader in enterprise cloud and SaaS hosting, today announced that JitterJam™ has selected OpSource Cloud™ to help deliver a new generation of sophisticated marketing solutions to small and medium businesses and the marketing, advertising and PR firms that service them. JitterJam chose OpSource Cloud because of its scalability and fast time to market. OpSource Cloud, available for purchase by the hour from www.opsourcecloud.net, is the first cloud computing solution to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with enterprise-class security, performance and control.
JitterJam is a revolutionary multi-channel marketing platform that launched on March 15, 2010. JitterJam integrates social media, e-mail, and mobile engagement with an intelligent contact database. It includes full integration with OpSource Billing CLM™ for customer on-boarding, automated billing and collections, and full self-service account management. The solution was fully integrated with and deployed on OpSource Cloud’s servers in less than eight weeks.
“It was critical to find an operational partner that could accelerate our time-to-market while bringing significant added value to our product and our customers” said James St. Jean, Chief Technical Officer, JitterJam. “OpSource offered the most flexible computing platform for our SaaS product while providing significant pre-built infrastructure to manage the operational, billing, metering, invoicing, and collections needs of our solution.”
Forrester Research predicts the market size for social media marketing will be as large as email marketing by 2012, at more than $1.6B dollars per year. It also predicts that the market will grow at 34 percent per year, three times the rate of growth of email marketing. “Given the huge addressable market and growth potential, deployment on a cloud platform was our only choice as we needed the cloud’s scalability and fast time to market,” said Ric Pratte, CEO, JitterJam. “OpSource was able to deliver for us, with the features we needed and on our timeline, as demonstrated by our reaching full production integration and deployment in less than two months.”
“With its explosive growth trajectory and always-on nature, social media is the perfect cloud application,” said Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. “There is a huge potential market for solutions like JitterJam, and we look forward to scaling with them as they grow.”
About OpSource Cloud
OpSource Cloud offers companies the true Cloud, combining the availability, flexibility and community of the public Cloud with the security, performance and control that the enterprise demands. OpSource Cloud is now in public Beta and available for on-line purchase by the hour from www.opsourcecloud.net.
Its features include:
Best of the Public Cloud
Easy online sign-up with infrastructure provisioning in minutes
Pay by the hour and only for what you use, with no commitment (unless so desired)
Community resources for sharing and collaboration, third party add-ins and configurations
Web interface plus complete set of APIs
Enterprise Security & Compliance
Virtual Private Clouds with user-specified public Internet connectivity
Unique customizable security for firewalls
User-level login/password and access control
SAS 70 Type II Audited Cloud
One hundred percent uptime SLA
Enterprise Performance
Multiple private networks on demand for multi-tier architecture
Guaranteed sub-millisecond latency between systems
Industry standard technology including VMware, Cisco, EMC, Microsoft and Red Hat
User selectable server configurations
Enterprise Controls
Centralized control and billing
Master and departmental management and controls
Sub-account permissions and budgeting
Complete reporting
24X7 phone support plus online community support and ticketing/status tracking
About JitterJam
JitterJam empowers consumer-facing companies in the mid- to small-business market by putting the sophistication and power of multi-channel integrated marketing within their reach. JitterJam is a comprehensive tool that integrates social media, e-mail, and mobile engagement with an intelligent contact database and the tools needed to turn social interaction into new opportunities for revenue growth. JitterJam is headquartered in Bedford, NH. For more information on JitterJam and to sign-up for a free trial, visit www.jitterjam.com.
About OpSource
OpSource™ provides complete cloud operations, infrastructure and services for companies of all sizes, from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ISVs to the enterprise, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily.
OpSource Cloud™ is the first cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise demands. Emphasizing security, OpSource Cloud provides enterprise users with a Virtual Private Cloud within the public cloud, allowing them to determine their own degree of Internet connectivity. For more information, visit www.opsourcecloud.net.
OpSource On-Demand™ empowers SaaS ISVs to bring enterprise-class Cloud solutions to their end-users by quickly and securely delivering their applications and services over the Web. Going far beyond full-featured managed hosting, the comprehensive, award-winning Cloud operations solution includes the application and database management, compliance and business services that are necessary for on-demand business success.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., OpSource has cloud and web application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore. For more information about OpSource, visit opsource.net.
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OpSource, Inc.
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