Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 11, 2007 - Privately held dedicated web hosting company, The Planet’s sponsored research, has confirmed that significant revenue increases have occurred, for integrators offering its hosted Microsoft SBS solution, through staff productivity with no upfront investments.

The new white paper details wide-ranging economic benefits and business value for system integrators (SI’s) and their SMB customers who use the company’s Microsoft SBS solution. More specifically, the paper clearly outlines how integrators who partner with The Planet can increase their profits by more than 20 percent per customer, without incurring upfront costs.

The research titled ” The Planet’s Hosted Microsoft SBS Service: Delivers More Customers, Revenue and Profits to System Integrators” - was conducted by analyst Michael Suby with Frost and Sullivan’s Stratecast Partners.

The Planet offers a complete enterprise-class ”IT portfolio-in-a-box” that includes Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft SQL Server, bundled with anti-virus and spam protection, and a comprehensive data backup solution.

Carl Meadows, Senior Product Manager with The Planet remarked, ”System integrators are the trusted advisors for their customers, and they are tasked with providing IT solutions that enable their clients to focus on running their businesses. By partnering with The Planet, system integrators can expand their product portfolios. They can offer many of the same services they provide on-site, all hosted in our world-class datacenters. This allows SI’s to move toward a richer, service-based model versus one based expressly on hardware purchases and billable hours. Even better, their clients gain access to enterprise-class service without the burden of having to manage or finance the infrastructure.”

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