NaviSite’s European Operation Announces Strong Customer Momentum

HostReview.com
Monday, March 20, 2006; 12:21 PM

NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of IT hosting, outsourcing and professional services for mid- to large-sized organizations, today announced strong customer momentum for its second fiscal quarter of 2006 in its European operation with several new customer signings and customer renewals.

New customer wins include Telstra, Coverpoint, Parks Hotel Management, Global Marine, and United Utilities:

• Telstra Europe, one of the UK’s leading alternative business telephony and internet suppliers, chose NaviSite for a remote DBA service. Telstra chose NaviSite because of its proven track record, and NaviSite is now their primary applications management partner in the UK.
• Coverpoint, which offers a Web-enabled trading tool designed for the insurance industry to facilitate insurance quoting, binding, document processing and contract certainty, signed with NaviSite for a hosting environment to support its insurance trading platform. Coverpoint chose NaviSite because of its ability to provide a secure, flexible and easily expandable solution.
• Parks Hotel Management, which works with the Radisson SAS Hotels & Resorts, part of Rezidor SAS Hospitality, was looking for a reliable and flexible hosting partner for a managed services offering to support its finance application from Access Dimensions.  Parks Hotel Management chose NaviSite based on a referral by a current NaviSite customer. 
• Global Marine, which offers market-leading cable installation and maintenance for telecommunications, scientific research, oil, gas, utilities and renewable energy sectors, chose NaviSite for a 12-server Microsoft solution that covers all aspects of their IT environment, including e-mail, Blackberry and Citrix.  This will be installed over three phases.  
• United Utilities, a company that manages and operates the regulated electricity distribution, water and wastewater networks in northwest England, was looking for a reliable hosting solution. It chose NaviSite for its comprehensive technical solution that answered their needs and requirements.

“NaviSite demonstrated a flexible approach to price, design and migration, which was very appealing to us,” said Paul Rodgers, CFO of Global Marine. “NaviSite has also shown its commitment to partnering with us to see this three-phase project through.  Given the Company’s wide-range of offerings, we are confident that NaviSite is the right partner to grow with us over time and act as a one-stop shop for our technology needs.”

Customer renewals in the quarter include XcapeWithUs:

• XcapeWithUs, which provides an online booking tool for travel accommodations, recently expanded their relationship with NaviSite for Web site hosting.  XcapeWithUs has grown rapidly over the past year and was looking to revamp their Web site to be faster and more agile, and they chose NaviSite based on its existing Web hosting relationship.

“We’re very pleased with the results of Q2 which yielded strong customer traction and renewals,” said Arthur Becker, CEO of NaviSite. “The customer renewal rate is evidence of the continued satisfaction of our customers as their long-term partner of choice for IT hosting, outsourcing and professional services.”

About NaviSite
NaviSite provides IT hosting, outsourcing and professional services for mid- to large-sized organizations.  Leveraging a proven set of technologies and extensive subject matter expertise, we deliver cost-effective, flexible solutions that provide responsive and predictable levels of service for our clients’ businesses.  Over 900 companies across a variety of industries rely on NaviSite to build, implement and manage their mission-critical systems and applications.  NaviSite is a trusted advisor committed to ensuring the long-term success of our customers’ business applications and technology strategies.  NaviSite has 14 state-of-the-art data centers and eight major office locations across the U.S., U.K. and India.  For more information, please visit www.navisite.com.