Nov, 2009 : Open-Xchange Partners with Nexen - Alter Way Hosting


📅 - Enables Nexen - Alter Way Hosting to deliver collaboration as Software-as-a-Service.

Open-Xchange, a provider of open source collaboration software, today announced an agreement with Nexen - Alter Way Hosting, a web hosting provider. The company avers that hosting customers of Nexen - Alter Way Hosting will get both Open-Xchange webmail and PIM (Personal Information Management) at no additional charge with an option to move to full groupware, as well as support for mobile devices.

It explains that Nexen - Alter Way Hosting is part of Alter Way and has a sister company, Alter Way Solutions, which is the system integrator unit. Alter Way Solutions has experience with a series of successful on-premise Open-Xchange implementations in the French market and was named for three consecutive years by Open-Xchange as "Best integrator of the year. Based on its experience, Alter Way decided to expand its Open-Xchange offerings with a hosted solution provided by Nexen - Alter Way Hosting. This gives small- and medium-size business in France the option to select either hosted Open-Xchange delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS), or a traditional on-premise installation, states the company.

"Nexen - Alter Way Hosting and Alter Way Solutions are excellent examples of how our partners benefit from the Open-Xchange technology and business model," said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. "Both on-premise and hosted Open-Xchange use the same software code, which gives partners freedom to choose either deployment model. We've found that SaaS enables small- and medium-size enterprises to benefit from groupware technology without an initial investment or on-going administration, which translates into cost savings."

"SaaS is a great business model for system integrators and service providers because it provides an additional source of recurring revenues, along with a tight customer linkage," said Christophe Ballihaut, CEO of Nexen - Alter Way Hosting. "We are seeing amazing market uptake on our hosted Open-Xchange offering sold as SaaS as we are the first provider in the French market to deliver exciting new features like Social OX for integrating social network data, as well as the OXtender for Business Mobility, which gives small businesses and individuals a cost-effective solution to facilitate work remotely."

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