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Wellesley, MA - May 4, 2009 - THINKstrategies, Inc., the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market, announced today that Phase 2 International has been named the latest winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.
The BoSS Awards program was announced in January 2009 as the latest initiative by THINKstrategies to bring attention to SaaS and cloud computing companies which are producing tangible business benefits for specific user organizations. These benefits include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations, and greater profitability.
PHASE 2 International delivers high-end business software applications via a SaaS model for businesses of all sizes, but especially small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The company's applications include the IBM Lotus Suite: Notes, Sametime, Quickr and Connections; Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange (with support for Blackberry devices), Project Server, CRM, and Team Foundation Server, for software developers; and PHASE 2's ShareMeeting.
PHASE 2 has created a SaaS Savings Calculator (www.phase2.com/savings) which is available free of charge to help corporate data center managers and small business owners calculate the 2-year cost of purchasing and maintaining software and systems in-house versus using SaaS solutions.
An case study example of the value of PHASE 2's SaaS Savings Calculator is Midwest Capital Group (MCG), a finance company specializing in structuring, pricing, and funding leases with Federal, State, Municipal, and Corporate customers. Using PHASE 2's calculator, MCG has been able to forecast potential software, hardware and support cost savings of approximately $740,000 over a two-year period by adopting SaaS solutions.
Because of these measurable business benefits, PHASE 2 has been named the latest BoSS Award winner. A full description of the company's winning BoSS Award submission can be found at http://www.saas-showplace.com/awardSummary.php?key=751.
"We are pleased to be recognized as the leading SaaS provider by the SaaS Showplace," said PHASE 2's CEO Kevin Doherty. "We are proud that our SaaS Savings Calculator has been able to deliver tangible benefits to our customers and those IT decision makers seeking ways to improve their IT solutions while proving they can save costs using SaaS solutions."
"Today's challenging economic environment is fueling the growth of the SaaS market but also driving more IT/business decision-makers to demand greater verification of the financial benefits SaaS vendors can deliver," stated Jeffrey M. Kaplan, the founder of the SaaS Showplace and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, the strategic consulting firm which conceived and administers the Showplace."PHASE 2's SaaS Savings Calculator is a timely tool to demonstrate these important benefits."
Previous winners of the BoSS Awards can be found on,
http://www.saas-showplace.com/registerforbossaward.html.
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