Feb, 2002 : Sphera Extends Reach, Wins Four European Accounts

📅 February 12, 2002 - Sphera Corporation (sphera.com), a developer of Web hostingautomation and management software, announces four new European accounts -ISE, Internet Intuitive, Poptel and Interdominios.

"We chose Sphera over their competitors because of the flexibility ofHostingdirector and the revenue opportunities with ValueApps," said John vander Lingen, CEO of Benelux-based hosting provider ISE. "Deployment has beeneasy and Sphera's technical staff reconfigured a European-specific solutionin record time which is testament to the openness and flexibility of theirsolution."
Hostingdirector, Sphera's flagship product, automates and streamlines Webhosting operations, thereby cutting costs, says the company. Hostingdirectorgives Web hosting providers an open architecture that enables seamlessintegration with back-end applications like billing, CRM, databases, etc.,and across Linux, Solaris or Windows platforms. ValueApps applications -over 40 pre-integrated applications like Miva, MySQL and PHP - give hostingproviders the ability to scale their customers to higher-margin services.
Spanish ISP Interdominios, which migrated their business to Sphera'splatform to support customers on both Unix and Windows platforms, wanted away to up-sell customers to higher-margin services. "Sphera's ValueApps andtheir Service Package Utility let us define service packages to suit ourcustomers' needs and to increase our per-customer margins andprofitability," said Fernando Gonzalez Barsh, Interdominios technicaldirector.