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Cloud-Based Email Archiving Provider LiveOffice Expands Part
09.28.2009 – With the explosive growth of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions,
cloud-based services providers, managed service providers (MSPs), value-added
resellers (VARs) and global system integrators (GSIs) are all looking for ways to
enhance their suite of offerings. Further, many of these organizations have
concluded that their on-premise and hosted email offerings are incomplete without
an email archiving component. The LiveOffice Partner Program provides these
organizations with feature-rich technology and the sales and marketing support
needed to become successful resellers of hosted archiving solutions.
Recently recognized by leading analyst industry firm Gartner, Inc. as the largest
provider of outsourced email archiving services in North America based on total
number of clients as of yearend 20081, LiveOffice is expanding its partner program
to better meet the evolving needs of its partner community. “Cloud-based email
archiving is hot, and our enhanced program provides LiveOffice partners with all of
the tools they need to hit the ground running,” said Jim O’Hara, vice president of
sales and business development for LiveOffice. “As more resellers look to expand
their SaaS offerings around email, our solutions provide unique value for them by
creating a recurring revenue stream, keeping their margins intact and helping build
their SaaS portfolio.”
LiveOffice continues to ride the rapidly growing wave of interest around cloud-based
email archiving. The email archiving market, according to Gartner, grew by 25.7
percent in 2008.2 In addition, Gartner estimates that “the number of customers
using [hosted] service providers for email archiving grew 59 percent in 2008 to reach
23,624 organizations, while the growth in the number of [on-premise] product
customers grew only 26 percent to reach 29,092.”2 As more organizations look to
migrate to cloud-based email (Microsoft Exchange Online, Google Gmail, e