2007-01-22 09:15:49 - Bangalore, 22 January 2007: - US based SpikeSource, a leading provider of business ready open source solutions with its 'centre of innovation- located at Bangalore, today announced that it has partnered with Noida based InfoAxon Technologies, a leading provider of Professional Open Source Business Productivity Solutions, as 'SpikeSource Solution Provider- for India. InfoAxon is the first company in India to be signed by SpikeSource as its Solution Provider

Bangalore,22 January 2007: - US based SpikeSource, a leading provider of business ready open source solutions with its 'centre of innovation- located at Bangalore, today announced that it has partnered with Noida based InfoAxon Technologies, a leading provider of Professional Open Source Business Productivity Solutions, as 'SpikeSource Solution Provider- for India. InfoAxon is the first company in India to be

signed by SpikeSource as its Solution Provider.

As per the partnership, InfoAxon would deliver Professional Open Source Solutions from SpikeSource to end user customers in India and provide the local expertise to help implement and support the solution within the customer environment.

'Our partnership with SpikeSource allows us deliver tried and tested open source business applications to our customer base in India and provide a mature enterprise fit open source suite of solutions- said Shubham Nagar, Head OSS Solutions, InfoAxon Technologies. 'SpikeSource offers a number of different applications and that gives our customers a real choice in selecting the best application for their needs.-

'We bridge the gap between open source technologies and enterprise business solutions. Our strategy has been to find out how to address the challenges that customer face around open source adoption, such as choice, solutions maturity, integration, support and open source adoption roadmap- said Shubham Nagar. He further adds, 'We de-risk open source and turn it ‘enterprise-ready' through our Professional Open Source Maturity Model (POSMM) and Practices and help our customers realize business benefits of open source models like more control, reduced costs, flexibility, and scalability.-

Said Gajanana Hegde, General Manager of SpikeSource India, 'Globally we have experienced significant growth in our solution provider network since the beginning of the year. By working with SpikeSource, solution providers reduce the amount of time and internal resources previously dedicated to installing, configuring and maintaining software solutions based on open source infrastructure and applications. These partnerships result in tightly integrated and well-deployed content management, CRM, and email, calendaring and collaboration software. These applications are pre-configured, integrated, tested and maintained by SpikeSource and its ISV partners, for simplified deployment-.

About SpikeSource:

SpikeSource integrates, manages and distributes open source applications through global network of trusted solution providers. The company certifies complete solutions with an automated test framework that performs over 300,000 daily tests. The SpikeSource portfolio of SpikeIgnited solutions includes a comprehensive software update and support service called Spike™ Net. For a list of SpikeSource solution providers, visit www.spikesource.com.

About InfoAxon:

InfoAxon Technologies is a leading provider of ‘business-ready' professional open source solutions to make your business more productive. InfoAxon's professional open source business solutions and services are focused around following key business productivity areas:

Content & Knowledge Management

Customer Relationship Management

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

E-learning

InfoAxon provides an alternative to buying high cost proprietary solutions or building the solution right from the scratch. InfoAxon has a rich repertory of already researched ‘business-fit' open source solutions which could be customized to suite specific business needs. To know more, visit opensource.infoaxon.com


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