groupSPARK and Ferris Research to Produce Exchange Hosting Webinar

Burlington, MA November 16, 2006 – groupSPARK, the #1 provider of Private Label Exchange Hosting, and Ferris Research, the leader in messaging and collaboration research, announced recently their plans to jointly participate in a webinar covering Exchange Hosting.

The panel webinar will contain experts in the messaging and collaboration industry including groupSPARK’s CEO, Ravi Agarwal. “This webinar will be a good chance for people interested in learning more about Hosted Exchange to get their important questions answered,” said Mr. Agarwal. “We’ll be covering such topics as how cost-effective hosted messaging is and what the potential impact Microsoft Exchange 07 will have on Exchange Hosters and their customers.”

During the webinar, panelists will discuss considerations for organizations thinking about outsourcing their messaging function, explore the types and sizes of organizations that Hosted Exchange appeals to, and explore what a typical implementation looks like. Most importantly, Mr. Agarwal will explain what organizations can do to ensure a successful hosted implementation.
The free webinar is being held on November 15th at 11:30 EST. For more information or to register, users can go to www.Ferris.com.

About groupSPARK

groupSPARK is the leading provider of hosted services, such as Microsoft Exchange Hosting, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, that can be completely private labeled and resold by partners as a part of their own product offerings saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in development and support costs.

Its GAIN partners utilize its turnkey Private Label platform to provide hosted services to their users in minutes. Partners are able to address scalability and uptime concerns by leveraging groupSPARK's 100% uptime SLA, 24x7x365 support and proactive hardware and software monitoring capabilities.

groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a privately owned company. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts it is the leading provider of Private Label Microsoft Exchange Hosting.

www.groupspark.com


About Ferris Research

Ferris Research has the largest team of analysts focused on messaging and collaboration. All Ferris Analysts bring real-life experience in the industry, either as senior IT or vendor staff, ranging from messaging managers to CTOs covering a wide range of technologies. In addition to the core team, Ferris draws upon the skills of a number of people in the industry contributing observations on key trends and providing specialized custom consulting when needed for a client inquiry.

www.Ferris.com

For more information please contact:

Al Maguire
Marketing Manager
groupSPARK
781-273-6245 x641
amaguire@groupspark.com
www.groupspark.com