Top Email Archiving Provider LiveOffice Delivers Cloud Archiving to 100+ BPOS Customers; Launches New Program for BPOS Partners

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2010 – Today at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), LiveOffice, the number-one provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email compliance and email continuity solutions and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, announced that it has sold and implemented its cloud archiving solution to more than 100 Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) customers during the past eight months, increasing the differentiation and value of each deal for BPOS resellers while providing end users with advanced compliance, legal discovery and continuity capabilities.

As a result of this unprecedented success, LiveOffice also announced the launch of its BPOS Partner Program, which provides members of the Microsoft BPOS partner ecosystem with a comprehensive bundle of archiving and migration services in addition to specialized sales, marketing and technical resources to accelerate sales cycles and ensure customer and partner satisfaction.

“In deals where a client is looking for a cloud-based archiving solution, LiveOffice is the answer. With their pricing model, our clients can add and delete users from the archive as needed, without worrying about additional licensing fees,” said Brad Younge, Principal, Statera Inc. “From a business standpoint, this partnership enables us to add a new revenue stream to our cloud services. LiveOffice archiving also equips us with another value-add: it eliminates the typical roadblocks associated with moving email to the cloud, such as migrating from an existing email platform, ingesting data from on-premise archives and addressing compliance and legal discovery concerns. This differentiation gives us a unique competitive advantage in the marketplace.”

The LiveOffice BPOS Partner Program provides numerous unique benefits to the BPOS partner ecosystem:

• Intimate knowledge and experience with BPOS/Exchange Online: Having developed a proprietary BPOS connector as part of its Cloud Ready archiving platform, LiveOffice provides BPOS partners with the expertise and documented process to simplify integrated BPOS and archiving implementations.
• Smooth migration from existing platform to BPOS/Exchange Online: With LiveOffice, clients can archive their messages in the cloud prior to moving their email to Exchange Online, ensuring that all messages are captured, indexed and available to end users during the transition between email platforms. LiveOffice’s CloudMerge™ tools are designed to help clients flexibly collect and ingest data from on-premise and hosted email stores, legacy email archives and personal archives (PST files). CloudMerge™ enables clients to securely migrate and consolidate legacy email data from their existing environment to LiveOffice’s cloud-based archive without business disruption.
• Specialized sales, marketing and technical support: LiveOffice’s cloud archiving expertise spans more than a decade. The company’s veteran team of sales, marketing and technical professionals have years of specialized experience in helping partners succeed when it comes to lead/demand generation, closing sales and supporting clients in the cloud.

LiveOffice at WPC

Visit LiveOffice at WPC today through Thursday in booth 741 to learn more about the BPOS Partner Program, and enter to win an Xbox 360 Elite Console.

About LiveOffice

LiveOffice is the number-one provider of software-as-a-service email archiving, email compliance and email continuity solutions, with more than 10,000 clients and a 97-percent client-retention rate. Founded in 1998 and backed by leading private-equity firm Summit Partners, the company has more than 150 employees with deep experience in messaging, including executives and board members from Symantec, Microsoft, FrontBridge and Postini. For more information, call 800.374.2032 or visit www.liveoffice.com. Visit the LiveOffice Blog at http://blog.liveoffice.com or follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/liveoffice.

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