Level Platforms Announces New Managed Services SOHO Version of Award Winning Managed Workplace Product

May 26, 2006; 02:59 AM
Ottawa – LPI Level Platforms Inc. today announced a new version of its flagship Managed Workplace 5.0 remote monitoring and management platform specifically designed for IT solution providers and digital home integrators that serve the growing small office/home office (SOHO) market.

The SOHO edition of Managed Workplace enables IT solution providers and home integrators to provide a full range of remote managed services to customers operating small peer to peer networks.

For solution providers with as few as 100 managed end customer sites, the new SOHO pricing provides the full capabilities of Managed Workplace 5.0 for $4.99 per site per month including up to five networked devices (PCs, printers, routers, media controllers and other IP based home automation devices, including externally hosted customer Web sites), or as little as $0.99 per device per month.

Solution provider partners receive a complete package of MSP business and technology training, marketing materials and full technical support. There are no extra charges.

For sites that include up to 10 devices, including two servers, solution providers can access the previously announced Small Business pricing at $14.99 per site per month.

Interested solutions providers and home integrators can obtain more details at www.levelplatforms.com.

“Level Platforms has developed this new pricing strategy to give IT solution providers and home integrators the ability to bring the benefits of managed services to the exploding home and small office environment,” said Peter Sandiford, CEO of Level Platforms. “The all-inclusive features of Managed Workplace and new low prices are designed to make it practical for solution providers to transform their services business from reactive break/fix to proactive managed services generating long term high margin recurring revenues and more responsive customer support.”

Home integrators agree.
“We are already realizing a profit from managed services, especially from sophisticated home customers,” said Jordan Hermant, president of Toronto integrator Zedware. Hermant has been using Managed Workplace 5.0 to remotely manage 20 customers.

Winner of Microsoft’s 2005 SMB Solution of the Year, Managed Workplace is the first managed services software product to provide comprehensive, integrated, end-to-end features in one simple, low-cost, easy-to-use, agentless software application.

Managed Workplace 5.0 offers a complete suite of fully integrated remote management features, including full monitoring of all devices and applications, instant remote access, patch management and scripting all based on the simple, agentless, Microsoft .NET architecture that remains the cornerstone of Level Platforms’ success. The new version includes everything an MSP needs for end-to-end remote detection and remediation over the Internet with no VPNs, no external hosted services and one simple customizable consolidated dashboard for low cost central management and control.

About Level Platforms
Level Platforms is the leading provider of managed services software for IT solution providers servicing small and mid-sized end customers through its award winning remote monitoring and management software, Managed Workplace.

Managed Workplace provides everything a managed services provider needs to remotely monitor and manage their end customers’ IT networks through a single web based central dashboard. The dashboard presents all customer site data including integrated performance and security monitoring, availability status, real-time alerting, graphical performance reporting, trouble ticketing, and asset inventory (hardware, software, network devices, and patches) and includes monitoring of both local and hosted web sites.

In addition to summarizing critical status information, the dashboard,
provides immediate “drill-down” access to detailed information about any device or event.

A complete suite of remote management features -- including remote control, patch management and remote scripting -- allows the solution provider to maintain high customer availability at a low cost while achieving long term, high margin recurring revenues and more responsive customer service. Comprehensive managed services training and personalized business coaching, combined with simple per site subscription pricing makes it easy for any solution provider to offer high-profit, customized managed services to end customers of any size.
For more information, visit Level Platforms at www.levelplatforms.com.