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October 15, 2009
groupSPARK Adds New Premium Spam Filtering Offering
Protect your customers with MX Logic Premium Spam Filtering and MX Logic Disaster Recovery Services. [more]
September 30, 2009
groupSPARK Adds Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM to Its Reseller Product Suite
groupSPARK, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and the leading provider of private-label hosted software services, today announced the immediate availability of hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. [more]
August 19, 2009
groupSPARK Launches New Partner Portal To Help Its Resellers Succeed
We are excited to announce the availability of the new groupSPARK Partner Portal – an online repository of sales and marketing tools, tips, and the latest promotions, created specifically for our reseller partners to help them increase their sales of hosted business services. [more]
August 13, 2009
Private Label Hosted Exchange Provider groupSPARK Participates At Hostingcon 2009
Hosted services professionals from around the world converged on the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C. from August 10-12, 2009 for the fifth annual Hostingcon 2009.
Hostingcon is the preeminent industry conference and tradeshow for web hosts, data centers, SaaS and infrastructure providers. [more]
July 15, 2009
groupSPARK Helps Rebuild New Orleans
Sunday, July 12, 2009 was one of the hottest days in recent memory but there were enthusiastic smiles all around. groupSPARK employees joined with Microsoft employees and its other partners from around the world to help Habitat for Humanity rebuild homes in New Orleans’ 9th Ward.
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July 7, 2008
groupSPARK Founder Invited to Speak with Microsoft at 2008 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
Hosting Industry Leader, Ravi Agarwal, Will Join With Microsoft to Share Insight into the Substantial Business Opportunities in the SaaS Market, groupSPARK's Achievement as a 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award Winner, and How Other Microsoft Partners Can Achieve the Same Level of Corporate Success.
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June 16, 2008
groupSPARK Named 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Hosting Solutions
Leading Private Label Hosted Exchange Provider Selected from Among an International Group of Microsoft Partners as Partner of the Year and Proudly Accepts Award As Premier Provider of Hosted SaaS Solutions.
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May 13, 2008
groupSPARK Senior Executive Officer To Speak At ISPCon Spring 2008
Ravi Agarwal will address leading internet industry executives and service providers on the explosive growth in the Software as a Service market and how Microsoft's entry into hosted services need not be an obstacle to service providers' success.
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April 22, 2008
groupSPARK's Private Label SaaS Services Now Available through Ingram Micro Seismic
groupSPARK significantly increases reseller channel with new Ingram Micro Seismic agreement. Private label hosted Exchange Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Dynamics CRM 4.0 will be made available through Ingram Micro Seismic to solution providers in North America.
[more]
April 1, 2008
mindSHIFT
Expands Market Reach with the Acquisition of
Collaboration Online, Limited Company [more]
March 26, 2008
Hosted
SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 Now Available
to groupSPARK Resellers
Customers previously reluctant to purchase Windows
SharePoint Services 3.0 can now take advantage
of the new enhancements and upgrades SP1 provides...[more]
March 4, 2008
Microsoft
Exchange Online and SharePoint Online as Web-Based
Services Welcomed
groupSPARK welcomes Microsoft's further entry
into the hosted services market with the beta
release of Exchange Online and SharePoint Online
for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) ...[more]
December 19, 2007
groupSPARK
Hosted Exchange 2007 Resellers Are First to
Take Advantage of Service Pack 1 Features
Uptime and Outlook Web Access Enhancements Improve
Reseller's Hosted Service Offering. ...[more]
November 27, 2007
groupSPARK
First to Market with Private Label hosted Microsoft
Dynamics CRM
Take advantage of an additional SaaS offering and
generate increased revenue. The new version of
Microsoft Dynamics CRM offers a software platform
that is fully multi-tenant and highly scalable,
and supports multiple languages and currencies.
It delivers a highly productive, role-tailored
user experience across a wide range of user interfaces
...[more]
July 23, 2007
Leading
Windows Control Panel, HELM, Now Enables Hosting
Providers To Offer Hosted Exchange 2007
WebHost Automation and groupSPARK partnership allows
Web hosting providers to offer hosted Microsoft
Exchange Server as an additional service ...[more]
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"All in all I am very pleased and impressed
with their service. The tech support staff helped
me make this a very smooth transition. They are
undoubtedly professionals in this field and I'm
glad we made the move to their service. Only
wish we did it sooner."
:: Rick Heyn
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Ravi Agarwal, CEO
Mr. Agarwal has been working with small businesses for
the last eight years, most recently with a provider of
outsourced IT support for SMB's. It is from this experience
– working with small businesses owners face-to-face and
discussing their needs – that Mr. Agarwal recognized
the need in the market for enterprise level e-mail & collaboration
services - at a small business price. Realizing this
crucial customer need and combining it with his experience
creating BizLand, Inc., he founded groupSPARK.
Prior to Argus Care, the outsourced provider of IT departments
for businesses, Mr. Agarwal founded BizLand, Inc., a website
hosting company with over 85,000 small business customers
today. After founding BizLand in January 1997, he served
as CEO and Chairman, guiding the company through its initial
round of angel and venture investments. He subsequently
served in a variety of positions, such as Vice President
of Marketing, Business Development, Product Marketing,
and Corporate Development. As Vice President of Corporate
Development, he evaluated several companies for mergers
and acquisitions and led the acquisition of two companies
with strategic product fit. During his tenure at BizLand,
the company raised over $21 Million in total through a
combination of equity and debt financing. Mr. Agarwal is
currently the Chairman Emeritus of BizLand.
Prior to launching BizLand, Mr. Agarwal spent two years
in General Electric's plastics division, where he completed
its acclaimed management-training program. He earned a
B.S. degree in plastics engineering, with a minor in mathematics,
from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Mr. Agarwal has spoken at numerous
business and technology conferences as well as guest
lectured at business schools at Boston University, Boston
College, and Babson College. He worked with professors
at Bentley College and Boston University to write three
case studies on BizLand, which have since been taught
internationally. In 2001, he was chosen by Entreprenur
Magazine in their "3rd Annual
10 under 30" - top 10 business people under the age
of 30 years old.
Mr. Agarwal is very passionate about life and loves activities
such as rock climbing, hiking, rollerblading, skiing, sailing,
racquetball, soccer, dancing, traveling, and photography.
During the summer of 2001, he spent six weeks in East Africa,
hiking Mt. Kilimanjaro and volunteering at a schools teaching
AIDS awareness and prevention programs, teaching basic
computer skills, and teaching sports at a home for street
children. Mr. Agarwal stays active in the community, volunteering
his time with organizations such as SAMTA, an organization
that mentors high school students, and TiE, an organization
that helps entrepreneurs.
Gagan Prakash, VP of Engineering
Mr. Prakash is a results oriented, hands on technology
leader who is experienced in applying Information Technology
to diverse and complex situations. He has held key positions
in a number of entrepreneurial ventures as well as leadership
and technology development positions at IBM and GE Fanuc
Automation. In these positions he has been responsible for
designing and leading the development of large scale, software
products for a variety of industries.
At GroupSpark, Mr. Prakash is responsible for leading
the design and development of GroupSpark's Private Label
Application Delivery (PLAD) platform as well developing
new technology solutions for the SMB market.
Prior to GroupSpark, Mr. Prakash was the Product Director
at LifetecNet, Inc, where he led the design and development
of StrataSync; a scaleable, enterprise level software solution
for Collaborative Supply Chain Management for the Pharmaceutical
Industries. Mr. Prakash led a team of Product Development,
SQA and IT professionals for designing and developing StrataSync
utilizing Industry standard technology. Additionally, he
played a key role in establishing and implementing structured
software development practices for developing StrataSync
according to FDA validation guidelines.
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