Apptix Partners with Colligo to Provide Offline SharePoint Solutions for SharePointSite.com Customers

November 28, 2006; 02:25 AM
Colligo Networks Inc., a leader in offline collaboration solutions for mobile professionals, today announced a partnership with Apptix to deliver offline access to Microsoft SharePoint®. Apptix, a premiere provider of on-demand messaging and collaboration solutions for the small and medium-sized business market, will offer Colligo's solutions to its highly mobile customer base to enable them to easily synchronize online SharePoint content with their laptops for immediate use while working offline. Under this agreement, Apptix customers will benefit from the functionality of Colligo Reader™ for SharePoint® and Colligo Contributor™ for SharePoint®.

"Today, Apptix hosts more than 1,400 SharePoint sites for customers worldwide," said Alex Yevelev, vice president of direct sales at Apptix. "Given the increasing requirement to support mobile access to information and tools - anywhere, anytime, we recognized the need to provide offline access to our customers' SharePoint sites. Our partnership with Colligo allows us to deliver a truly seamless online-offline solution for our all of our SharePoint customers."

Apptix is the latest company to join the Colligo for SharePoint Partner Program. This program now boasts more than 20 partners in key global markets, including the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, New Zealand, and Israel. Partners include Apptix, eVallis Ltd., ADVIS AG, Atlantech Ltd., and F1Systems. "The new program is designed to give our partners the tools and support they require to succeed in deploying Colligo Reader and Colligo Contributor to their customers," said Barry Jinks, president and CEO of Colligo Networks. "By working with our partners to extend the value of their solutions, we are also helping SharePoint customers achieve their full business potential both online and offline."

"Colligo will be working with Microsoft's systems integrators as they deploy SharePoint," said Sara Palmbush, Analyst with The 451 Group, a technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation, in a recent report. "Colligo will in effect be helping Microsoft unstick deals that have hinged on the need for an offline capability." This comment appeared in an independent report, titled "Colligo looks to succeed by giving offline support to Microsoft SharePoint," which was published on April 3, 2006 (see Editor's Note below).

The partner program is designed to contribute to the success of organizations that deploy Microsoft SharePoint solutions - including SharePoint services hosting partners, system integrators, and value-added resellers. A variety of partnership options are available to suit a number of business models and desired levels of engagement with Colligo. Marketing Partners are including "Get Colligo for SharePoint" buttons on their site templates to help individual users download Colligo Reader and buy Colligo Contributor directly from Colligo's Online Store. Resellers are managing enterprise deployments of Colligo for SharePoint solutions.

Colligo Reader and Colligo Contributor are the easiest offline SharePoint solutions to deploy, learn, and use. Free for individuals, Colligo Reader offers offline read access to entire SharePoint sites. Colligo Contributor provides a significant productivity advantage with full read, modify, create, and two-way synchronization functionality. They are lightweight (4.5 MB) .NET 2.0 clients and require no server components or modifications. These rich clients deliver a new level of offline support for SharePoint features - including document libraries, InfoPath forms, custom metadata and views, and lists such as events, issues, links, contacts, announcements, tasks, and agendas. Shipping versions are compatible with version 2 of Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Colligo is currently working on the next version of its offline SharePoint products that will be compatible with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

About Apptix
Apptix (OSE:APP), founded in 1997, is a premiere provider of on-demand messaging and collaboration solutions to over 140,000 subscribers across more than 13,000 organizations worldwide. Its Software as a Service offerings, including Hosted Microsoft Exchange, Hosted Microsoft SharePoint, Mobile Messaging, and Archiving and Compliance, provide small and medium-sized businesses with a reliable, secure, and cost effective alternative to purchasing and managing software applications in-house. IBM, Hewlett Packard, Bell Canada, Savvis, and others have selected Apptix to provide on-demand services to their customers. Apptix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Hosting and Application Services.

Apptix's brands include www.ASP-One.com, www.MailStreet.com, and www.Mi8.com, which provide Exchange Hosting and essential add-on services, as well as www.SharePointSite.com, which provides Hosted SharePoint and related services. The company is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, with additional locations across the United States, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.apptix.com.

About Colligo Networks

Colligo is a leading provider of offline collaboration solutions for mobile workers. Its software extends the use of applications such as Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Lotus Notes, and CaseWare into offline settings where users often have no access to the Internet or corporate servers. Colligo is a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV partner and IBM Business Partner. Its solutions are deployed in many large enterprises, such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, General Motors, Qualcomm, and Grant Thornton in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information visit www.colligo.com.

Colligo is a trademark of Colligo Networks, Inc. All other corporate names and / or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Editor's Note: The 451 Group's report, "Colligo looks to succeed by giving offline support to Microsoft SharePoint" referenced above, is an independently-produced report that was neither sponsored by nor otherwise funded directly by Colligo Networks. The report and its entire contents are the sole property of The 451 Group, copyright 2006, and are reproduced here by permission. The entire contents of this report are available at www.the451group.com.