Adoption Of SharePoint Fuels Archiving Opportunity In Channel

Mimosa Systems, a provider of next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, is reporting that its ecosystem of channel partners are experiencing tremendous interest and revenue upside when selling the Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint for archiving, discovery, and recovery. The rapid and dramatic adoption of Microsoft SharePoint has resulted in many opportunities for SharePoint archiving and is fueling revenue growth for many of Mimosa's value added resellers and system integrators focused on Microsoft SharePoint.

Microsoft SharePoint sales broke the $1 billion revenue mark last year with more than 100 million licenses sold, making SharePoint the "hottest selling server-side product ever for the company" according to the New York Times. Growth for the popular content management and collaboration application remains steady with the installed base of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server or MOSS expected to grow at a remarkable average annual growth rate of 25% over the next four years, fueling revenue growth for Mimosa Systems.

These impressive growth statistics indicate that SharePoint is quickly becoming an enterprise standard for collaboration in much the same way Microsoft Exchange is now the standard for enterprise email. However, as SharePoint becomes the standard for collaborative portals, it will present the same challenges originally found with Microsoft Exchange, in terms of operational efficiency as well as Governance, Risk and Compliance. Any company relying on SharePoint for enterprise collaboration, information management and records management has to address recovery processes, standardize retention/storage management policies, and put in place systems to expedite eDiscovery. Mimosa NearPoint presents tremendous revenue opportunities for value added resellers and system integrators who are reselling Microsoft SharePoint to customers and are being asked to address these business challenges.

Mimosa NearPoint provides a holistic solution to managing SharePoint data with integrated recovery, storage management, and eDiscovery. NearPoint is the only SharePoint management product to combine both archiving and item-level recovery while maintaining easy end-user access to information. In addition, Mimosa NearPoint offers the most comprehensive SharePoint data capture available. Customers can capture all content types and associated metadata, perform continuous capture, and preserve the relationships between sites and content. This content can then be offloaded from SharePoint to enable storage cost savings while maintaining seamless end-user access via optional stubbing capability. NearPoint also provides full-text indexing and global single-instancing on all archived content. Moreover, Mimosa NearPoint also manages the retention and disposition of SharePoint content across the archive in accordance with organizational policies.

Mimosa supports its channel partners through the comprehensive Mimosa Partner Advantage Program. The program offers three tiers of participation - Referral, Preferred and Elite - for value-added resellers, consulting services partners and system integrators. The Mimosa Partner Advantage Program is designed to provide comprehensive pre- and post-sales support for Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint. For more information, visit http://www.mimosasystems.com/html/sol_sharepoint.htm and request a partner application or visit http://www.mimosasystems.com/html/part_becomeP.htm

"We are excited at the enormous growth opportunity for our partners in the area of SharePoint archiving," said T.M. Ravi, CEO of Mimosa Systems. "The astronomic success of SharePoint clearly establishes it as one of the leading business applications of 2009. As this upward movement continues, we are eager to work with both existing and new partners to provide them with the channel enablement tools they need to seize this hot growth opportunity now."

About Mimosa NearPoint
Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements for content archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. Mimosa NearPoint proactively captures email, files, SharePoint content and instant messages; and provides legal search workflow, employee supervision, immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage and advanced classification rules, NearPoint also optimizes content storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs.

About Mimosa
Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint is the industry's most comprehensive unstructured information management software solution for email, files, collaboration systems and instant messages, enabling archiving, eDiscovery, storage management, and recovery in a unified solution. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India.

SOURCE: Business Solutions Magazine