Fastest growing
SharePoint Independent Software Vendor (ISV) expands to offer best-in-class
technology across entire SharePoint lifecycle
Soarsoft
Africa, a specialist of archive, migration, messaging and collaboration
solutions and distributor of Metalogix solutions in Southern Africa, has
announced Metalogix’ acquisition of Axceler’s highly successful and profitable
SharePoint business, including the industry’s most powerful and widely-used governance
and administration product, ControlPoint for SharePoint Administration. The
acquisition of Axceler’s related products, employees, assets and brands,
positions Metalogix as the fastest growing SharePoint-focused Independent
Software Vendor (ISV) in the world.
“As
two of the leading global SharePoint vendors, Metalogix and Axceler had highly
synergistic product sets, and joining forces will enable them to offer a more
complete offering. As local distributors of both product sets prior to the
merger, we are well positioned to offer the South African market comprehensive
local presence, support and training from a single vendor. We will also be able
to offer a single solution with an expanded range of options to our customers,
which makes sound financial sense and further assists to simplify the
complexity of SharePoint tasks and management,” says Chris Hathaway, Director
at Soarsoft Africa.
The
addition of ControlPoint for SharePoint Administration, to Metalogix
market-leading portfolio of content infrastructure software establishes the
company as a single source supplier of premier products for the management of
the entire SharePoint lifecycle. The
expanded Metalogix product portfolio delivers expanded visibility and proactive
control over enterprise SharePoint environments.
It
also enables customers to effectively manage the increasing scale of SharePoint
deployments, explosive growth in business content and the need to mitigate
security risks. ControlPoint for SharePoint Administration enables
organizations to easily manage their SharePoint platform and enforce governance
strategies that protect business assets while driving employee adoption and
productivity. The ControlPoint family of offerings, which have won more than a
dozen awards, are used by over 3,000 organisations worldwide to manage more
than 14 million SharePoint users.
“Today’s
announcement is truly a game-changer in the SharePoint industry. The addition
of the leading SharePoint Governance and Administration management product to
Metalogix offering extends our range, reach and leadership in the strategic
SharePoint governance market segment.
This investment is another milestone in our strategy to provide
customers the best-of-breed content infrastructure software to deploy, operate
and protect their Microsoft SharePoint platform, on-premise or in the cloud,”
says Steven Murphy, CEO of Metalogix. “SharePoint customers can now buy the
premier migration, administration, storage optimisation, and replication
technology from a single source – Metalogix.”
“Over
the past four years SharePoint adoption has grown tremendously across
enterprises of all sizes. As the market has matured, SharePoint has
increasingly become a vital and complex asset for tens of thousands of
operations,” says Michael Alden, CEO of Axceler. “SharePoint administrators are
increasingly seeking single-source technology providers who can provide
exceptional technology and offer comprehensive, global 24x7 support. The
integration of Axceler’s SharePoint business with Metalogix is a natural
evolution of the market and will drive significant value for those managing
contemporary SharePoint environments.”
With
over 10,000 customers, in 86 countries on 7 continents, Metalogix is the
fastest growing SharePoint-focused Independent Software Vendor (ISV) in the
world. Metalogix is committed to integrating and enhancing the combined product
portfolios to help customers enhance the use and performance of
SharePoint. New and existing customers
will benefit from the expanded reach, scale and resources of the new Metalogix,
including its industry-leading live 24x7 support program, which manages the
most complex global issues.
Axceler’s
non-SharePoint business will continue to operate independently supporting
solutions for Lotus Notes, Yammer and other collaboration platforms.
About Metalogix
Metalogix provides content infrastructure
software to improve the use and performance of enterprise content. For over a
decade, Metalogix has transformed the way commercial and government organisations
manage terabytes of content to improve knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Today, over 10 000 customers rely on the company’s products to upgrade,
migrate, organise, store, archive and replicate content on Microsoft
SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. Metalogix has moved more than 50,000
terabytes of content.
Metalogix
is recognized as the fastest growing software company in the Washington
D.C.-area by the Washington Business Journal and was named to the 2012 Inc. 500
list of fastest growing companies. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a
managed partner in Microsoft’s High Potential ISV Group and GSA provider.
Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and
Bessemer Venture Partners. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
To
learn more about Metalogix products, please visit: http://www.metalogix.com/powerful.aspx.
About Soarsoft Africa
Soarsoft
Africa focuses on Archive, Migration, Messaging and Collaboration solutions,
with a successful track record that spans over a decade. Leveraging the experience gained from some of
the largest and most complex information management implementations around the
world, we are able to deliver cost effective and successful projects and
solutions. Soarsoft only supports and
implements what it considers to be trusted and proven solutions to meet our
customers’ specific information management requirements. Soarsoft continues to
evaluate its offerings to ensure they maintain market and technological
leadership positions, so that clients are offered the very best and up-to-date
advice when assessing their requirements.
Soarsoft Africa operates throughout Africa and parts of the Middle East
and has offices in both Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa.
Editorial Contacts:
Soarsoft
Africa
Chris
Hathaway
Tel:
021 200 2393
Evolution
PR
Lesley
Rencontre
Tel:
011 462 0679
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