Corporate Savings in Economic Hard Times with IBM WebSphere Portal Hosting by Alphalogix
Released on: October 20, 2008, 11:18 am
Press Release Author: Victoria Sauer / Alphalogix
Industry: Software
Press Release Summary: Businesses large and small can decrease spending by reducing IT resources with Alphalogix SAAS hosting structure.
Press Release Body: Huntington Beach, CA - October 20, 2008- Alphalogix(tm), portal and workflow solutions provider, announced today their Software as a Service hosting management offerings can aid corporate spending by reducing IT resources and cost. Alphalogix Network Services has been successful in hosting many IT environments for customers such as 20th Century Fox, Mainstay Marketing, and LA Cosmetics. Currently their Software as a Service (SAAS) financing plans allow companies to outsource entire software infrastructures at for a low monthly cost, helping reduce resources such as full time administrators, hardware and network systems.
With the current US economic status, reports of corporate conditions are showing a reluctance to spend excess money.
"There is a general mentality that businesses and people are just hunkering down," said Marti Kopacz, managing principal at Grant Thornton Corporate Advisory and Restructuring Services. Grant Thornton is one of the six global accounting, tax and business advisory organizations.
"They're going to spend less. They aren't going to be able to borrow," she said. "We're seeing a lot of companies right now trying to maximize the amount of cash they have on their balance sheet."
One way to maximize amount of cash that many companies have chosen is by reevaulating their IT departments and reducing resources by outsourcing software hosting to third party network service providers such as Alphalogix.
Alphalogix Network Services offers customers outsourced hosted solutions specializing in IBM software such as IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1, IBM Lotus Forms and other collaboration technology in the Lotus Suite. Alphalogix also provides 24X7X365 monitoring and support for other solutions including their Tasica brand of automated workflow solutions.
Currently, Alphalogix offers customers Software a a Service financing plan that adds up costs such as hosting, software licenses, hardware fees, support and services into one monthly price. Customers are able to receive their software licenses up-front without paying start up fees.
According to Bob McCandless, CEO of Alphalogix, "Many companies choose to host their software solutions so they can reduce the costs and challenges of running a full time administrator, maintaining hardware and keeping up to date with software. Alphalogix offers many different hosting plans to accommodate small businesses who do not have the resources to support a large IT infrastructure as well a large enterprise businesses who need constant support for their vast environments."
As an 13 year business partner of IBM, Alphalogix will be presenting IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 at the 2008 IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 and Portal 6.1 Integrated Solutions and Services breakfast seminar on November 6, 2008 at IMB, Costa Mesa. McCandless will be on-site discuss the latest in Gartner's number 1 ranked enterprise portal technology as well as providing expert advice on deploying and hosting enterprise portal environments for any size business.
To find out more information on the 2008 IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 and Portal 6.1 Integrated Solutions and Services breakfast seminar please contact Doreen Barbarian at 714-901-1456 x.214 or doreen_barbarian@alphalogix.com.
For futher information on Alphalogix Network Services, and Alphalogix SAAS offering please contact Victoria Sauer at 714-901-1456 x.209 or victoria_sauer@alphalogix.com.
About Alphalogix Alphalogix is a long time, IBM Business Partner with expertise in portal technology, electronic forms and workflow solutions. As 2004 and 2008's Lotus Award winner for Best Portal, Alphalogix has built and hosted collaborative portal solutions that connect people and applications together for small business to Fortune 500 companies. Tasica Forms Director is a rapid application development tool that integrates seamlessly with IBM Lotus Forms 3.0, creating a complete electronic form and workflow solution that can be deployed in a portal environment, extending the portal's value with security and role-based business process automation. Forms Director is the recipient of Lotus Advisor's Editors' Choice Award 2007 for "workflow" solution. Alphalogix is also noted for its network services offering SAAS hosting plans for IBM WebSphere Portal. For additional information about the company or products, visit www.Alphalogix.com.
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Contact Details: Alphalogix, Inc. Victoria Sauer 5811 McFadden Ave. Huntington Beach, CA 92649 Tel: 714-901-1456 ext. 209 Fax: 714-901-2056 Victoria_Sauer@Alphalogix.com www.Alphalogix.com