| Mail2World Surpasses 10 Million Hosted Mailboxes, Signaling Advances in Software as a Service (SaaS) for Business Email
Mail2World, Inc., a pioneering force in business SaaS communications solutions aggregated on a single Web platform, today announced that its registered user base has skyrocketed to more than 10 million users and over 5.6 billion messages handled per month. By surpassing this significant milestone, Mail2World reaffirms its authority in the development, deployment and management of on-demand messaging and collaboration solutions since the company was founded in 2000. Mail2World derived its accelerated growth from a mix of market segments around the world, including ISPs, enterprise businesses, small and midsize businesses, and institutions of higher education—all strategically targeted by the company's direct sales teams and global channel partners. Mail2World's dramatic market expansion was heralded earlier this month by the company's announcement of its all-new, all-Cisco® network hosted by IT Infrastructure services leader SAVVIS, Inc.
Build versus Buy, Best Practices Approach - community blog from Michael Goldman
Recently I interviewed a number of CEO's, COO's and Head of Operations within Asset Management and Wealth Management and found a trend in London, Paris, Lisbon and Amsterdam: The most innovative and agile businesses were able to better serve their clients by adopting best of breed technologies and innovative processes. One firm spoke of their long-standing relationship with a leading back office provider and described how they were able to grow thier business by 30% per year by following a best practice technique: Working with their back office vendor and front office vendors to fund new functionality in their systems rather than building functionality or modules in-house. The result has meant more focus by the operations and IT staff on providing new services to existing clients and always being one step ahead of the client / front office staff requests.
Small firms fuming over consultants
PHOTOS BY J. ALBERT DIAZ/MIAMI HERALD STAFF Jose Muñiz was scrambling to keep up with orders at his Tamarac company, which ships live monarch butterflies for release at weddings and funerals, when he got a call from International Profit Associates. IPA, a business consulting firm with 1,800 employees and $250 million in revenue, said one of its analysts might help him identify obstacles to growth at Amazing Butterflies. One year later, Muñiz says he has a new hurdle: staying afloat as he continues to pay off $90,000 in debts split between IPA-related bills and fees on a risky loan he says IPA should have warned him against. Muñiz and 39 other small-business owners -- including two others from Florida -- are suing IPA executives in Chicago federal court, claiming that they engaged in racketeering and fraud to sell millions of dollars in often unnecessary consulting contracts.
LiveTime Software Partners with Leading Italian Supplier of Compliance Solutions
H@rlock to resell LiveTime Service Manager to small to medium enterprise (SME) in Italy. Cheltenham, UK (PRWEB) November 26, 2007 -- LiveTime Software, a leading provider of ITIL certified Web 2.0 Service Management, Help Desk and Customer Support Software, today announced the appointment of H@rlock Srl as a reseller for the Italian market. Milan-based H@rlock is a leading supplier of compliance solutions that also provides ITIL training and consultancy services. Giving significant focus to the pharmaceuticals industry, H@rlock will resell LiveTime Service Manager and LiveTime Help Desk throughout Italy. "We look forward to introducing LiveTime's products to our customers," said Huub Commandeur, H@rlock's Business Development Director. "LiveTime Service Manager's ease of use and low TCO are unusual amongst enterprise-level software products and I'm sure these benefits will be of considerable interest to the markets we serve, especially to the many Italian SME-sized organizations that need to address the same enterprise IT challenges, but with smaller budgets.
Businesses react to proposed drainage fee
As decision time draws near on whether to approve a storm water utility fee in Wentzville, some in the business community are holding their breath.Nov. 8 might have marked the last of the city's informational public meetings on the idea, but it drew far more attendees than the first two combined. That's because there's far more at stake."It's a mixed bag," said Donna Marie Pierre, president of the Downtown Business Association, who attended the meeting that evening. "Some people vehemently didn't want any additional fees of any kind. ... Some people have a lot of area they'd be paying for. And that's a problem."Yet, the city's problem is that it needs to find a source of funding.When storm water, which usually refers to rainwater or melted snow, is not soaked into the ground, it becomes surface runoff, picking up pollutants on its way to rivers, lakes and streams.Environmental Protection Agency regulations now require cities to implement and fund storm water programs that better regulate storm water runoff, which is why Wentzville, along with many other municipalities, is considering a storm water fee.If the fee were passed, commercial, industrial and residential property owners would be charged a rate based on their amount of impervious surface area, or area that does not soak up water, such as paved roads, sidewalks and buildings.Officials estimate the fee for a residential unit would average $1.10 per month.
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