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18 May 2009
Genesis slashes prices to make cloud computing accessible for all
Mobile and SaaS specialist Genesis Communications has launched the most affordable hosted IT packages on the market for small and growing businesses to help them take the plunge with cloud computing.
The packages are set to redefine the market by providing common-sense IT solutions for SMEs’ everyday business issues at the most competitive prices ever seen for hosted services.
Starting from just £3 a month, the three market-leading “Core” packages for email, customer relationship management (CRM) and collaboration are all based on hosted Microsoft software, which SMEs can access on a month-by-month basis, with no initial implementation costs and no minimum contract. Users then have access to a set of additional offers and bolt-on services for each package, such as unlimited storage capacities for users and mobile access.
Genesis’ Exchange Core will offer customers market-leading email services on a flexible monthly contract for £6 per month. Customers can add and remove users on a month-by-month basis, which enables growing SMEs to support new team members quickly and with minimum cost.
In a market first, the package contains unlimited storage with MS Exchange, removing the need to delete emails to free up space. Genesis is anticipating its hosted email customer base to grow by 80% once the services launch.
The company is also offering its existing customers the ability to share documents by providing free access to Microsoft SharePoint collaboration software for 3 months. Any new or existing Windows Mobile customers will also receive free Exchange mailboxes for an initial three months.
Mark Seemann, product strategy and development director at Genesis, commented “There’s so much chatter about cloud computing, but no one has yet been able to create a compelling package for SMEs that provides the services they need, at the right cost. We’ve invested millions in the very best IT infrastructure in order to pass the savings on to our SME customers and create packages that will lead the way in cloud computing.
“We’ve built these basic packages on our ‘elastic IT’ model. Cloud computing gives any small and growing businesses access to the most comprehensive and user-friendly IT services from the world’s leading vendors on a pay-as-you-go basis, and this can be increased or decreased depending on the current demand. Businesses will have everything they need, at the most competitive prices ever offered on the market.”
To find out more about the packages contact Genesis Communications on 0844 847 9602 or go to http://www.genesis.co.uk
Product summaries
Exchange Core
• Access to Microsoft Outlook (email/ calendar/ contacts/ tasks) across different devices or clients
• £6 per month per user
• Monthly contract
• Unlimited storage
CRM Core
• £30 per month (market leading cost)
• Additional bolt-on services including advanced support, Quick Start
packs and data backup
• Mobilisation to follow
SharePoint Core
• £3 per month per user
• Monthly contract
• Share documents across organisations
• Mobile access to documents
• Free to all existing Genesis customers for 3
months
The packages are set to redefine the market by providing common-sense IT solutions for SMEs’ everyday business issues at the most competitive prices ever seen for hosted services.
Starting from just £3 a month, the three market-leading “Core” packages for email, customer relationship management (CRM) and collaboration are all based on hosted Microsoft software, which SMEs can access on a month-by-month basis, with no initial implementation costs and no minimum contract. Users then have access to a set of additional offers and bolt-on services for each package, such as unlimited storage capacities for users and mobile access.
Genesis’ Exchange Core will offer customers market-leading email services on a flexible monthly contract for £6 per month. Customers can add and remove users on a month-by-month basis, which enables growing SMEs to support new team members quickly and with minimum cost.
In a market first, the package contains unlimited storage with MS Exchange, removing the need to delete emails to free up space. Genesis is anticipating its hosted email customer base to grow by 80% once the services launch.
The company is also offering its existing customers the ability to share documents by providing free access to Microsoft SharePoint collaboration software for 3 months. Any new or existing Windows Mobile customers will also receive free Exchange mailboxes for an initial three months.
Mark Seemann, product strategy and development director at Genesis, commented “There’s so much chatter about cloud computing, but no one has yet been able to create a compelling package for SMEs that provides the services they need, at the right cost. We’ve invested millions in the very best IT infrastructure in order to pass the savings on to our SME customers and create packages that will lead the way in cloud computing.
“We’ve built these basic packages on our ‘elastic IT’ model. Cloud computing gives any small and growing businesses access to the most comprehensive and user-friendly IT services from the world’s leading vendors on a pay-as-you-go basis, and this can be increased or decreased depending on the current demand. Businesses will have everything they need, at the most competitive prices ever offered on the market.”
To find out more about the packages contact Genesis Communications on 0844 847 9602 or go to http://www.genesis.co.uk
Product summaries
Exchange Core
• Access to Microsoft Outlook (email/ calendar/ contacts/ tasks) across different devices or clients
• £6 per month per user
• Monthly contract
• Unlimited storage
CRM Core
• £30 per month (market leading cost)
• Additional bolt-on services including advanced support, Quick Start
packs and data backup
• Mobilisation to follow
SharePoint Core
• £3 per month per user
• Monthly contract
• Share documents across organisations
• Mobile access to documents
• Free to all existing Genesis customers for 3
months
Notes to editors
Genesis Communications Limited is the largest independent virtual mobile service provider in the UK and a leading independent provider of hosted IT solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises. The company has over 300 employees based in Manchester, Sheffield, Leicester and London and generated revenues of £34m in 2008. In March 2009, Genesis acquired the business of THUS Mobile, which had revenues of £36m per annum and manages the customer base on behalf of Vodafone. Genesis is now the UK’s largest mobile virtual service provider and provides mobile voice and data solutions to approximately 25,000 customers.The company has invested in a wholly owned state-of-the-art data centre in Leicester with infrastructure to provide managed services and Software-as-a-Service IT solutions, such as Microsoft hosted Exchange 2007, Microsoft hosted SharePoint 2007, Microsoft Office Communication Server and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4. Genesis is the #1 provider of hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 in the UK.
The company has achieved a total of 8 Microsoft Gold Partner competencies and its objective is to become the leading provider of unified communications and IT solutions to UK small and medium-sized enterprises.
For more information, please visit www.genesis.co.uk
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