Thursday 29 July 2010
ChannelVission Inc, the premier provider of outsourced global sales channels focused on targeted cloud computing, announced today that it will help its high-tech clients take full advantage of integrating its cloud platform ChannelCloud™ into their strategic business model.
“We want every business to understand the benefits of cloud computing and the mature services ChannelCloud delivers. The cloud is already proving itself a viable and successful means of hosting Web applications, but not every application runs comfortably there. As the only enterprise-class Channels as a Service (CaaS™) cloud provider we have the unique advantage of providing the high availability, on-demand scalability, flexibility and security that enterprise sales deployments need. We’re enabling channel growth for enterprises to make their offerings easily available in the Cloud and accessible on-demand.” said Aman Sehgal, President and CEO of ChannelVission. “A new class of platform infrastructure, like ChannelCloud, is required to expose the business potential from information mobility to gain a significant competitive advantage.”
“This is a ground-breaking methodology that clearly demonstrates ChannelVission’s commitment to always support customers’ business transformation with the cutting edge innovations in the market” said Dilip Tinnelvelly, VP of Product Management, ChannelVission. “As the industry embraces Cloud Computing, the importance of channels and sales management becomes even more critical and we want our partners to be able to take advantage of our Channels as a Service (CaaS)”. For further discussions on target cloud solutions please visit Dilip’s blog: http://dilip.ulitzer.com.
About ChannelVission, Inc.
ChannelVission Inc. is a B2B business development outsourcing company, composed of experts specializing in channel sales, marketing and business development. Our highly trained, results-oriented professionals serve clients in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. The company is a privately held corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Information on ChannelVission’s services may be obtained via email at info@channelvission.com or at: http://www.channelvission.com.
Postal Services Group has signed a three-year agreement with Fronde, a Google enterprise partner in New Zealand, which will see Google Apps rolled out to 2,100 Postal Services Group workers. Google Apps – including mail, calendar, chat, video, docs and sites – will be rolled out to 2,100 Postal Services staff and a small number of staff within the wider New Zealand Post Group. Postini will be deployed to provide secure mail archiving for 10 years and spam protection. The application will be progressively rolled out to Postal Services with assistance from Google, Fronde, Cloudbreak and Datacom Systems Ltd. Mr Fenton said Postal Services wanted to give its people productivity tools that supported a high performance business culture and made it easier for people to work more creatively, collaboratively and flexibly. “With Google Apps, there will be a dramatic increase mail box capacity, from 50Mb to 25Gb, boosting productivity by freeing employees from having to constantly manage email back ups.” “Google Apps simplifies document sharing within a secure environment, either internally or to people working remotely. This will increase our ability to work collaboratively,” Mr Fenton said. Moving to web-based tools means people could work securely from anywhere at anytime using any web-based device, Mr Fenton said.
Web-based tools such as Gmail were increasingly popular and many people, especially students, would expect to access the same tools at work, Mr Fenton said.
“Google Apps will help us retain our people and attract the next generation of talented graduates,” Mr Fenton said. The agreement means Postal Services Group will move to a variable cost model so that IT costs could be more closely linked to business activity. Head of enterprise for Google Southeast Asia Richard Suhr said that Postal Services Group was clearly committed to transforming the way they do business. “Today’s announcement is further proof of the cloud computing revolution - mature technology delivered the right way by a fast moving and important local channel partner,” Mr Suhr said. “This move positions Postal Services Group, an organisation that provides critical services to New Zealanders, as an innovation leader in the Asia Pacific region,” Mr Suhr said.
The company surpassed 5,000 customers in APAC in its first fiscal quarter of 2010, including industry leaders Crocs, Pacnet, Ricoh and more. Salesforce.com cloud computing applications, including the Sales Cloud and the Service Cloud, as well as the Force.com platform for developing and deploying custom cloud applications, allow customers to focus on managing their businesses - rather than managing the cost and complexity associated with software and hardware infrastructure. Asia-Pacific is our fastest growing market, and there has never been a better time for enterprise cloud computing,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “Our new Singapore data center represents continued investment in our global real-time infrastructure to accelerate customer success with cloud computing worldwide.
SaaS is moving beyond its roots in customer relationship management (CRM) into every area of the enterprise, including platforms for application development,” said Dane Anderson, CEO of Springboard Research. “With all segments of the cloud computing market growing, we are seeing applications and platforms being adopted across the board by enterprises in the region and, perhaps most importantly, the enterprises we interview are very satisfied.
The cloud CRM provider unveiled the facility at a company event here, with top Singapore trade officials also in attendance. The data center, located at the eastern side of the island-state, was first announced by the company a year-and-a-half ago. At the same time, Salesforce also unveiled a new offering that lets Singapore enterprises build and run their “first” application for free on Force.com, the company’s cloud computing platform. Singapore is the only country, outside the United States, where the company is availing the offer, though executives said it intends to make the same offer to the rest of the world in the “next two to four weeks.
The Force.com Free Edition, as Salesforce calls it, is intended to lure enterprises to have a taste of running an application over the cloud before they are charged for succeeding applications. Once hooked up, customers can develop their own applications or buy them from AppExchange, a marketplace for applications that run on Force.com. he company said “customers and partners” built about 120,000 business applications on Force.com, while there are some 800 applications available on AppExchange.
Salesforce officials said the Asia-Pacific region stands to benefit from cloud computing as both small and midsize businesses (SMBs), as well as big corporations can take advantage of the cheaper cost of operating a business over the Internet. As proof that a “paradigm shift” in the computing landscape has already transpired, Salesforce executives said it already exceeded US$1 billion in annual revenue early this year.
Along with its two North American data centres, the company has launched a new facility in Singapore, which includes a new data centre as well as a network operations centre. The new Singapore facility allows the company to meet the service demands of its rapidly growing international customer base as well as extend the capacity, redundancy and scalability of its infrastructure,” the company said. Supporting the data centre infrastructure will be a new NOC headquartered in Singapore. The NOC enables 24×7, follow-the-sun monitoring of the company’s data centres in North America and Singapore. The company has more than 59,300 customers of all sizes, industries and geographies in its customer base as of 30 April 2009.
According to salesforce.com’s earnings report for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, the company registered 36% revenue growth in the Asia Pacific compared to the same period a year earlier. Its customers in the region now numbered more than 5,000 and include AAPT, Acer, Amcor, CGU Insurance, Challenger Financial Services, Crocs, Datacraft, Flight Centre, Hang Seng Bank, Mizuho Private Wealth Management, Ottagi, Pacnet, Ramco, Ricoh, SPH Search, VSNL and Telecom New Zealand. SaaS is moving beyond its roots in customer relationship management (CRM) into every area of the enterprise, including platforms for application development,” said Dane Anderson, CEO of Springboard Research.
