General Motors Picks Cobalt Group for Excedent's Email Hosting Solutions

Excedent Technologies (www.excedent.com), the proven provider of email hosting solutions for small businesses, announced today that its private-label reseller, The Cobalt Group, is offering Excedent's hosted email solutions to General Motors.

"The dealers told us that they needed personalized email accounts, but didn't want to bear the administrative costs required to host and manage internal messaging systems," explained Matt Muilenberg, director of business development at The Cobalt Group.

The Cobalt and Excedent partnership continues to expand its reach and drive growth for both companies within the automotive retail space.

Cobalt currently provides email hosting to more than 1,000 automotive retailers worldwide, and that number is growing rapidly as the company continues to roll out Excedent email services to all of its 15,000 customers.

This announcement comes just weeks after The Cobalt Group announced the launch of GM PowerShift, the next generation Web site solution program that helps GM dealerships manage their online retail business. As part of the PowerShift package, Cobalt will offer email hosting powered by Excedent.

"From the start, the Excedent - Cobalt strategy was designed to give dealerships all the advantages of advanced email without any of the attendant burdens of administration," said Patrick Mathews, chief executive officer of Excedent Technologies.

Cobalt and Excedent partnered more than two years ago to provide automotive retailers with locally branded email accounts and Webmail access. Cobalt, which provides e-business solutions specifically to automotive retailers, offers email hosting packages that include large mailboxes, virus protection and spam filtering, all hosted within Excedent carrier-grade data centers in the United States.

The Web-based email service offered by Excedent features a comprehensive range of benefits that help meet the communications requirements of today's automobile dealers, including domain-based email address, remote email access from any Internet-connected location through a Cobalt-branded Webmail interface and online management tools allowing customers to add and delete email accounts and aliases.