Please contact these Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration enabling partners directly to learn more about their offerings.

Products by companies who develop control panels and other hosting automation software help service providers to better manage their operations and their sales channels. By providing integrated user interfaces and other infrastructure components, the partners listed below allow service providers to scale and to increase customer satisfaction. These partners have closely aligned their products with the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration and other Microsoft hosted solutions (offer description courtesy of respective partner).

EMS-Cortex has over 8 years experience in servicing telecommunications and service providers industry. The Cortex secure application provisioning platform for managed and hosted services is used by some of the world's leading service providers in the USA, UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Cortex provisioning platform brings a new level of accessibility to the managed services market by offering a flexible and affordable option for solutions based on Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration and additional value-add applications. Cortex enables telecoms, ISPs and service providers to streamline provisioning and reduce operational costs, reduce customer churn, engage additional distribution channels and reduce time-to-market for new hosted services.

Ensim Unify is a complete solution to automate the provisioning and management of Windows-based hosted services. It enables service providers, broadband operators and wireless carriers to accelerate their revenue streams and reduce the time and resources typically needed to implement, launch and support such services.

ExtendASP offers the only 100% HMC based control panel. By exposing every feature that HMC has today, we have developed a solution for Hosters and Telcos that provides every feature they could want. With a multi-lingual, multi-currency, and a 100% reseller focus, we can provide you with a turnkey solution for your HMC needs. It has a built in billing system, audit system, trouble ticket system, domain registration system, full portal website, and all of these can be turned on or off. It also has a full API and web service for the most advanced customization and portal integration currently available. With many deployments worldwide, you can be assured your business is in good hands.

Fenestrae offers a robust, scalable messaging and mobility solution for Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration. With Fenestrae service providers can easily and rapidly add and roll-out value added services including fax, mobile over-the-air email data synchronization, and SMS mobile alerting to connect to the 1.5 billion phones in use today, increase ARPU, address customer needs and drive down operating costs.

Parallels (formerly SWsoft) is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Parallels provides go-to-market solutions for service providers who want to launch services such as Hosted Exchange, Hosted SharePoint, and Hosted CRM using the Hosted Messaging and Collaboration platform. The Parallels solution includes centralized software and services which complement the HMC solution to automate online ordering, domain registration, resource-based billing, online payments, customers reminders, and more using customized workflows to match your existing business processes. All services are delivered via re-brandable customer control panels which provide non-technical clients with the ability to change or upgrade their service 24x7.

The services partners listed below bring a variety of expertise that can help hosting service providers to optimize their Windows operations and to build the infrastructure necessary to go to market quickly.

Capital Outsourcing (formerly TRINEC), is a world-class HMC implementer with a significant portfolio of Telco customers in the Middle East and Africa. With its offices in Beirut, Dubai, Paris and Monaco, Capital Outsourcing provides its customers with a complete service starting with Architectural Design Sessions and workshops, products and services packaging, cost and ROI analysis, Solution design, implementation and training. Full platform outsourcing and 2nd level Support are as well included in our offering.

Capital-Outsourcing has built its own comprehensive Control Panel to provision email hosting, and all the other hosted services (WSS, Web, Data etc…).

Our consultants expertise and project management methodology have proven their efficiency throughout the various implementations/migrations we did so far.

implement.com is a globally recognized resource for strategic direction and tactical implementation of sophisticated multi-tenant hosted solutions, including Microsoft’s Hosted Messaging and Collaboration. implement.com delivers cradle to grave services, including full life-cycle Project Management, System Design, Software Development, Content Development, and e-Learning. In addition to being thought leaders in these areas, implement.com professionals have the tactical experience to ensure projects are executed with quality, on time, and within budget.

implement.com is a key Microsoft partner developing, testing, and documenting all versions of Hosted Messaging and Collaboration.

InceptioŽ offers advice on all aspects concerning planning, design and implementation of Microsoft IT-infrastructure – for both private and public companies. Our focus is both on keeping a close dialogue with the customer and keeping a connection between technology and organization to create the best IT-solution possible. That’s why we are very serious when we say "IT takes two."

Our vision is to "support our customers' implementation and optimize their IT-infrastructure through a believable and competent cooperation."

Info Support is fully prepared to assist you with implementing, managing and training the Windows-based hosting solution. The close cooperation with the developers of the solution ensures you Info Support can effectively help you leveraging the full potential of this new release.

INS is recognized globally as a leading professional services consultancy. With more than 25 offices in North America, INS offers a full range of consulting services to help organizations plan, build, secure, and manage world-class business infrastructure.

Having performed more than 19,000 successful engagements since 1991, INS has developed a comprehensive set of proven methodologies to deliver world-class solutions and can help hosting service providers to fully realize the benefits of The Microsoft Solution For Windows-based Hosting. Coverage: United States

Mural Ventures brings the experience of owning and operating their own Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies to Microsoft ISV and Service Provider partners in the form of Technical Readiness, Business Readiness, and Sales Acceleration consulting services. Mural’s Business Design Session (BDS) workshops for Hosted Messaging & Collaboration (HMC) present service providers the opportunity to benefit from industry best practices for the sales and marketing of Microsoft HMC offerings. Mural’s Key Success Factors framework provides a way to easily understand areas for improvement and prioritize the actions needed to make your business a success.

Planet Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is an international IT consulting, services and solutions firm with expertise in the integration and customization of Microsoft technologies and data center solutions in diverse business environments.

Our expertise includes messaging and collaboration, windows hosting, data center management, server management, .NET development, identity management, migration planning and implementation and go-to-market solutions. Our team’s technical knowledge and project management expertise has enabled us to excel for our customers who are some of the largest service providers, federal agencies and enterprises in the world. In 2006, Planet was named Microsoft Public Sector Partner of the Year.

Tireno is an IT consulting company based in Hamburg. The nationwide customers rank among the leading companies in the industry sectors of retail and consumer products, automotive, financial services, industrial manufacturing, petroleum industry, telecommunications, media and publishing.

As a Microsoft systems integrator, Tireno supports both hosting providers and their customers in creating business cases and ROI analysis, proof of concepts, development of migration concepts and providing integration services.

Partnering with Info Support can be more than a one time engagement. Due to the close relationship with Microsoft we can also assist you with keeping up-to-date with upcoming releases and developments and providing you with sound advice on the relevance of those for your company.

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ZANTAZ offers an industry-leading email and file archiving solution for the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration. With ZANTAZ EAS for HMC, service providers can offer a full-featured compliance archiving and mailbox management solution to their customers, adding new revenue opportunities, lowering their operating costs and establishing more meaningful value proposition to their customers. ZANTAZ EAS enables organizations to create an efficient, searchable archive for the retention, management and control of email, ensuring cost-effective storage optimization and message retention for organizations of virtually any size.