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OpSource Adds Two New On-Demand Companies to Its Rapidly Growing Family of SaaS Customers
Software Vendors Increasingly Turn to OpSource Optimal On-Demand as a Springboard for Accelerating SaaS Success
Santa Clara, Calif., -- April 17, 2006 -- OpSourceTM, the SaaS experts, announced today that two new providers of on-demand software solutions have joined its rapidly growing family of Software as a Service (SaaS) customers. appMail and TakeCharge Technologies join the ranks of forward-looking businesses that have chosen OpSource for its one-of-a-kind package of SaaS enablement and management solutions.
appMail combines applications and email in an integrated productivity tool to enhance communication and workforce collaboration. The product is also offered as a consumer-focused solution provided through Grouptivity.com. TakeCharge Technologies helps organizations improve financial management with its spend management solution. These innovative companies chose OpSource Optimal On-DemandSM for its comprehensive SaaS delivery, management, support, and on-demand pricing. Through this unique offering, OpSource provides small companies with a low-cost entry into the SaaS world, and a powerful environment to accelerate limitless growth over the long term.
Ankesh Kumar, CEO of appMail, said, "We've had the experience of working with a traditional managed services company and find the breadth and depth of what OpSource provides to be well beyond anything else on the market. Our on-demand solutions require absolute security and reliability. OpSource provides us with load balancing and SSL accelerators that we didn't have access to previously. Their engineers also worked very closely with our staff to configure other important security capabilities, such as transport layer security, which is essential in an email-centric product like ours. And we can rely on OpSource to monitor our operations to ensure that our customers receive the highest levels of reliability and availability. This is the kind of in-depth, hands-on service that's second nature to OpSource, but that you just don't see in other vendors."
Debbie Hamel, President and CEO of TakeCharge Technologies, added, "We selected OpSource to improve the SaaS capabilities of our affordable spend management and analysis solutions. We were impressed by the business model, the people and the support that OpSource could provide. We didn't want a company that just provided servers. We wanted a company that understands partnership, market needs and the challenge of constant change. OpSource has been extremely responsive in helping us roll out our solution and connecting us with a community of like-minded companies in which we can build a network of solutions that complement each other and build mutual success."
Treb Ryan, Chief Executive Officer of OpSource, said, "appMail and TakeCharge are demonstrating the power that small companies have when operating in an atmosphere designed to help them succeed. These companies recognize that SaaS is a specialty that is difficult to build internally without sapping resources that otherwise could be spent on innovation and product enhancements. At OpSource, our sole focus is SaaS, and we have developed not only the infrastructure, but also the services, programs, and ecosystem to provide a powerful springboard for our customers to broaden their market reach and accelerate their business growth. Together, we are transforming the way software is delivered and marketed, enabling small companies to compete effectively even against their largest competitors."
OpSource's Optimal On-Demand is a turnkey, scalable service delivery solution that includes 24x7 call center operations under the ISV's brand, fully managed services, application management and a 100 percent uptime guarantee. OpSource's Success-Based PricingSM model is particularly important for small to medium-size companies that would otherwise be unable to make the capital investments necessary to deliver a new on-demand application. The entire infrastructure is built on OpSource's OptiTech Services EngineSM, a patent pending technology platform that supports rapid integration, deployment, and monitoring of on-demand offerings.
About appMail, LLC
appMail, is a web 2.0 company that develops web services for structured email communication. appMail has web services for the corporate market and the consumer market. Most recently appMail launched DASH, a web service for line managers to communicate with their teams via structured email. Also last month appMail launched its consumer web service, Grouptivity, allowing groups of all sizes to collaborate with structured email. appMail is based in San Mateo, CA. Learn more about appMail's offerings at: www.appmail.com or www.grouptivity.com.
About TakeCharge Technologies TakeCharge Technologies is a market leader in delivering on-demand spend management solutions to private and public-sector organizations, including some of the largest school districts in the U.S. TakeCharge's spend management solutions help organizations streamline the procurement process and cut purchasing and payment costs while improving spend compliance, sourcing, tax preparation, and reporting. TakeCharge solutions can be integrated with all major banks, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and financial packages, and eCommerce systems, creating a fully integrated solution to manage procurement card (P-Card), commercial, T&E, Fleet and any other card programs. Additional information on TakeCharge Technologies is available at: www.takechargetech.com.
About OpSource
OpSourcetm, the SaaS experts, is solely focused on providing the operational infrastructure and ongoing services that enable software companies to deliver and maintain the highest quality Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. By choosing OpSource as a SaaS partner, the software company is free from infrastructure management and can focus on improving its applications and finding new customers. OpSource's Optimal On-Demandsm infrastructure enables software companies to deploy SaaS quickly, effortlessly, and without risk. Software companies at any stage in the application lifecycle, delivering any type of application, can benefit from our comprehensive services and expertise. OpSource is the only company to offer Success-Based Pricingsm, our per unit pricing model, which allows companies to begin with a minimum commitment, and expenses scale only as revenue increases. For more information about OpSource, visit opsource.net.
