Ensim Unify Manager for SharePoint Launched to Give Hosters Fastest Path to New Revenue Opportunities

Ensim Unify Offers a Single Infrastructure for Hosting Microsoft Hosted Services

HostReview.com
Tuesday, January 20, 2004; 12:00 AM

Sunnyvale, Calif., January 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 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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For more information, contact: Helen K. Thorvald PR Manager, Ensim Corporation 408-745-3306 hthorvald@ensim.com