A Microsoft Gold Partner, 7global is one of the UK’s longest established hosting providers. A pioneer in Software as a Service (Software + Services) delivery we have a wealth of experience in supplying our customers with fully managed hosted solutions.

We have a track record in helping software vendors deliver their applications using a Software + Services model. As a hosting partner for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) 7global plays a critical role in addressing all of the key commercial and technical challenges that arise and we have the expertise and depth of experience that ensure success.

7global is among the first managed hosting companies in Europe selected to participate in the Microsoft Software + Services Incubation Center Program. This initiative helps ISVs adopt the Software + Services business model. The Program provides ISVs with business and technical guidance, one-to-one consulting, discounted licensing for the first year and access to an established hosting channel to deliver their applications to market faster than the competition.

Affinity leads the market in delivering highly-scalable shared web applications for small businesses. Our service delivery platform powers over 400,000 web sites and web applications including the second largest ecommerce storefront customer base behind Yahoo! Stores. We currently serve more than 200,000 individual clients ranging from Fortune 100 Internet companies to small business with fewer than 10 employees.

We offer a combination of proven expertise in web application integration and management, coupled with a market-leading customer support infrastructure and management team. Affinity is therefore uniquely qualified to help clients transform their application to a Software + Services delivery model and provide the support services that their customers need to be successful. By providing a complete, end-to-end Software + Services enablement solution, Affinity helps clients realize the benefits of Software + Services, while minimizing their deployment costs.

Our proven expertise and partnership with ISV’s gives you the IT certainty to focus on your core business, of developing and marketing your application, rather than 24*7 operations. Attenda’s Managed Service ensures that your application is always on – giving your clients the availability, performance and security that they expect from you.

Based in the UK, Attenda is ISO9001 & 27001 accredited, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and voted 2007 Best Managed Service Provider.

Canada Web Hosting has the passion, skills, experience and resources to help clients maximize the revenue potential of the Internet as a medium for the delivery of mission-critical business services. We can help ISVs accelerate the delivery of Software as a Service by providing comprehensive Software + Services Enablement Services (SES). These services are a complete suite of business and technical engagements that can speed your time to revenue and greatly increase your probability of success.

Our initial assessment will establish the steps necessary to ensure your application is compatible with a Software + Services delivery model. The assessment produces a Readiness Summary, which is used by to prioritize your go-to-market strategy and fully understand the operational requirements of service delivery. Our Delivery Consulting can facilitate the workflow and associated processes that will enable the provisioning of highly available software services. We can help to establish pricing models, order management systems, billing systems and even payment gateways.

In addition to constructing Service Level Agreements that support your Service Promise we can help you to satisfy requirements for Availability, Performance Monitoring, Security and Compliance. Finally we can implement and manage your Live Production Environment and support you with a Full Service Catalogue that will allow you to quickly respond to technology and market requirements and opportunities.

HostCHN Corporation has its headquarters in Shanghai China. We are a high-tech company focused on providing information service and solutions. HostCHN is a Microsoft Gold certified partner and the premier Tier 1 Hosting Solutions provider leveraging the Microsoft platform in China Mainland. We have very experienced technical teams, great relationships with the Telecoms Giant and an integrated industry chain including over 2000 agents. Recently HostCHN joined the Microsoft SaaS Incubation Center program and will leverage their extensive experience and new generation enterprise S+S application platform to assist ISVs with their SaaS solutions.

InteleNet offers dedicated enterprise level elastic cloud computing environment for deploying SaaS based solutions. Cost effective adaptive computing platform capable on demand expansion or contraction.

SaaS ISV enablement Services include; deployment, hosting and support services.

For 15 years, Latisys has been serving the IT and hosting services needs of small and medium enterprises, mid-market companies, and divisions of large enterprises. Latisys is recognized by Microsoft, IBM, and others as a premier partner within the software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructure community.

Providing independent software vendors (ISVs) an on-demand computing environment, based on an elastic computing model, Latisys offers growing businesses access to a managed hosting solution that requires no up-front capital investment. This on-demand managed server platform offers a complete IT infrastructure for SaaS-based solutions, including:

WebCentral recognised the potential of the SaaS market many years ago and has been actively working with the ISV community to help promote and drive the take up of SaaS applications since 2004, when we launched “the application marketplace”. Over the past few years WebCentral has launched many market leading initiatives to support the growth of the SaaS market and in late 2008 we launched our latest initiative, the MiCloud SaaS Partner Program. This program offers ISVs access to a range of exclusive products, services and promotional offers designed to support the growth of their business. We have now teamed up with Microsoft to include the Microsoft SaaS Incubation Centre into the program to support both traditional ISV’s and start up organisations take advantage of this new growth market.

Mondo is a leading international Software + Services provider that specializes in hosting of services based on the Microsoft platform. Through the Software + Services Incubation Program, Mondo develops, implements and hosts services that optimize customer, partner and employee relations using Microsoft classic products and Dynamics CRM. Mondo’s expertise in Software + Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM helps partners develop ISV applications on top on of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

NaviSite’s ISV Sandbox solution offers ISVs a cost-effective, secure, and ready-made infrastructure for testing and deploying Software + Services. Built using best practices from NaviSite’s extensive Software + Services deployment experience, the ISV Sandbox offers a “plug and play” environment for ISVs to test key applications and access methods and provides ISVs a cost-effective incubation environment before transitioning to production and the electronic distribution of software. Once ready, NaviSite enables a smooth migration path to a robust production environment. The ISV Sandbox features:

NetSourcing, a Microsoft Gold Partner, founded in 2001, is a prominent Application Hosting Provider in the Netherlands with special knowledge of verticals, like healthcare, NetSourcing delivers solutions to Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) and end-users. For end-users NetSourcing offers Software + Services, managed workplaces, service desk and fully managed applications.

NetSourcing is the first Microsoft Software + Services Incubation Center who has implemented Microsoft Connected Services Framework (CSF), Hosted Messaging and Collaboration platform (HMC). NetSourcing has also an interesting history in implementing, supporting and management of Softgrid. By offering services like this, NetSourcing is able to deliver the full stack of Microsoft services.

For ISV’s NetSourcing can offer several services to support ISV’s to adopt the Software + Services Business model. The program will provide ISV’s with business and technical guidance, consulting services and will offer ISV’s a way to deliver Software as a Service based on best practices and a niche of great learning experience of NetSourcing by delivering Software + Services solutions.

Netstore is the IT Security and Outsourcing Company for mid-market organisations. Our expert team help customers reduce cost, streamline processes, increase business agility, and secure their businesses. With over ten years in business we are a publicly listed company with technology centres in the North and South of England. Our expertise spans both the private and public sectors. We believe in partnerships to deliver value and are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. We partner with a number of ISV’s and assist them in meeting the Software as a Service (Software + Services) delivery demands that are emerging from their customers. We understand the challenges faced by the ISV community when considering Software + Services, and believe we have an optimum solution to address this in partnership, respecting the existing business model of the ISV.

NTT Europe Online provides managed hosting, software as a service (Software + Services), IP broadcast, application management, business continuity and security management solutions to enterprises globally. These solutions give the reliability, availability, security and scalability needed to underpin business success online. -- As an established Software + Services hosting and enablement provider, NTT Europe Online understands that ISVs developing their applications as a service face commercial, financial and technical challenges. -- NTT Europe Online’s Software + Services Enablement programme covers commercial and marketing development as well as technical assistance and hosting. In particular, our pricing models are designed to match the way revenues grow in these businesses and are very attractive to ISVs looking for assistance in developing an outsourced managed hosting model. -- NTT Europe Online is a Microsoft Software + Services Incubation Partner and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. As part of the world’s largest telecommunications company (NTT Group) it has the global reach and scale to support businesses of all sizes.

OpSource delivers Web applications and software as a service for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. By choosing OpSource as their Web application delivery partner, companies are freed from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure and services necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead focus their resources on developing, marketing and selling their applications and services. OpSource On-Demand, the leading service delivery platform, is suitable for companies at any stage of growth, with any type of on-demand application. Sign-up now for a 60-day free trial.

Founded in 1995 and based in Cologne, Germany, PIRONET NDH AG offers innovative solutions for the creation, synchronization, and distribution of digital content of all kinds, as well as for the optimization of internal and external business processes. With more than 400 employees and an turnover of more than €40 million in the fiscal year 2006, PIRONET NDH is one of the leading medium-sized ICT vendors in Germany.

Solutions provided by PIRONET NDH are both modular and holistic. Software + Services providers who collaborate with PIRONET NDH in the future will be equipped with everything they require for a quick start-up, on a ready-to-use basis: an integrated package of solutions that includes pre-implemented Microsoft platforms in one of the most modern German data centers, Managed Network Services via the PIRONET NDH Core Backbone, and a full range of support and services covering everything up to and including the provision of Software + Services customer contracts and Service Level Agreements.

Rackspace offers great infrastructure to maximize the potential of SaaS applications. ISVs focus on developing software, Rackspace will provide the infrastructure to deliver it.

Combining SAVVIS’ existing global hosting and network infrastructure with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers virtualization and Parallels Automation, the alliance creates a comprehensive SaaS IT infrastructure service delivery platform. This enables independent software vendors to build, deploy, and support their SaaS applications. Software that was not originally intended to be offered in the SaaS model is made “hostable” quickly and simply, without any re-programming or architectural changes. The combined solution enables ISVs, many of whom developed their software applications on Microsoft technologies, to rapidly deliver their applications in a SaaS delivery model.

SAVVIS leverages its industry rich heritage and wholly owned infrastructure to provide a holistic approach to SaaS. Our global reach, breadth of services and proven implementations can allow our customers to achieve a greater market share and faster time to market. SAVVIS offers an innovative solution to fully enable and support SaaS providers through the entire lifecycle of their business.

Siennax is a utility-based hosting provider based in the Netherlands. With a long history in delivering Software + Services solutions, Siennax enables and supports its ISV, VAR, reseller, aggregator and Solution Partners to develop and operate a profitable Software + Services activity and deploy Software + Services solutions to their respective customers. Siennax has Trust Services and SAS 70 type II certifications for its operation, giving customers the assurance that measures to protect system availability and security are in place and are effective.

For the delivery of mission-critical Microsoft Windows Server and/or Microsoft .NET applications, Siennax has deployed additional infrastructure such as the .NET reference architecture, the Microsoft Provisioning System, Microsoft Operations Manager and more.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner and Microsoft Software + Services Incubation Center, Siennax delivers consultancy services around Business Design, Application Architecture, Infrastructure architecture and Proof of Concept environments to test new Software + Services applications. In addition, Siennax provides Software + Services applications and infrastructure for billing, sourcing and learning solutions – enabling Siennax’ partners to add value by integrating these types of solutions in their Software + Services offerings.

StrataScale’s flagship offering, IronScale, offers a unique managed hosting service for ISVs and hosting providers that simplifies and accelerates the process for building, managing, and scaling your hosted physical infrastructure. Through a secure Web browser, you have direct, “anytime, anywhere” control to add and build servers, manage applications, and make changes—instantly.

IronScale creates the ideal secure environment required for software development, testing, production environments, and go-to-market launches with a unique feature set that includes:

Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ), is a leading provider of advanced communications and information technology (IT) solutions to large business and government customers worldwide. Combining unsurpassed global network reach with advanced communications, managed hosting, security and other professional service capabilities, Verizon Business delivers innovative and seamless business solutions to customers worldwide.

Companies rely on Verizon Business to host critical infrastructures such as public-facing Web sites, corporate intranets and other environments. It also helps companies enhance e-business reliability and performance, fine-tine enterprise portals, automate business operations, augment business continuity efforts and enhance network and server performance through its comprehensive managed hosting portfolio. Verizon Business owns and operates one of the largest IP backbones in the industry. With more than 10 years of experience in the hosting industry, Verizon Business manages more than 3,100 servers for hundreds of IP Application Hosting customers.

As Microsoft Gold Partner, visionapp AG offers professional consulting, technologies and services that enable a smooth and efficient centralized delivery of applications. With our Incubation Center and in cooperation with Microsoft, we will support you in making your software Software + Services-capable using realistic test environments. In our workshops, we also assess the sales potential of your software and develop appropriate marketing strategies. As a rule, these events are conducted by specialists, who have a profound knowledge of technological and marketing issues is the field of Software + Services. In addition, you will benefit from expertise from Microsoft, visionapp and further partners. The topics dealt with in the workshops and test scenarios are specifically adapted to your project.