APS Conversations

  • "APS makes it very easy to plug into a large ecosystem, we are now able to offer Open Xchange to both PA and Plesk."
    Rafael Laguna, CEO - Open Xchange
  • "We use APS packaging [...] it allows our customers to install APS packaging with no technical knowledge at all with a click of a button."
    Jason Frisch, CEO - Tsukaeru
  • CASE STUDY

    BackupAgent Case Study

    Located in Delft, The Netherlands, BackupAgent is a leading provider of online backup software. Hosting vendors resell the Software-as-a-Service (Saas) under their own...

  • "With the APS standard being used to deploy and manage Office 365 is really going to make it a simple solution. We're going to be able to focus on the sales, marketing, and managing of customers and not the day to day provisioning of the accounts. "
    Stephen Nicolas, VP of Online Sales - Softcom
  • "Scale matters. But a lot of that scale are not based on commodities like infrastructure. The real economies of scale are from leveraging software automation. Smaller companies are able to get the same scale of automation that larger companies can."
    Lydia Leong, Research VP, Cloud Computing - Gartner
  • "Infrastructure as a service is not a cloud strategy - it's a starting point. At the end of the day a customer that only offers infrastructure will find that their customers will soon outgrow them. You need to have a standardized approach to building the infrastructure."
    Melanie Posey, Research VP Hosting & Managed Services - IDC
  • "APS Standard means we can roll out very broad band of applications we can cover a lot of needs of these small and medium enterprises and private customers that want to roll out these applications."
    Julien Ardisson, COO - Strato
  • "It (APS Packaging) gives us greater availability and easier to use for the end users so we can find a partnership to go forward with that really gives us a platform to sell through."
    George Nicolas, Founder - Sonian
  • WHITE PAPER

    Parallels Applications and Cloud Services

    Parallels goal is to simplify and automate Cloud Services so that any Provider can profit from the Cloud. Partner with Parallels and get access to quality applications & services from trusted & supported brands, enabling you to build your Cloud Service business starting today!

  • "(APS) gives service providers billing integration, customer service, self-service models to let the service provider to manage their business holistically, and let the end customer manage their unit and the service they get on an individual basis"
    Talal Al Qinawy, Industry Director, SaaS Worldwide - Microsoft
  • "As we move more and more from a distribution of 'CD' products to be installed in a datacenter to products that can be bought and provisioned and deployed directly online that changes the whole game on how products get created and get to market."
    Robert Mahowald, Research Vice President, SaaS & Cloud Services - IDC
  • "The standard is a great opportunity for ISVs. Hosting companies serving small business Customers have enormous reach. We're talking about millions and millions of customers in a ready made channel."
    Philbert Shih, Analyst - Structure Research
  • "In the past 12 months we've signed up over 30 partners all over the globe and this has been an exceptional result."
    Roland Sars, Director Sales and Marketing - BackupAgent