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Denver, Colorado, July 10, 2007 – LPI Level Platforms Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to leverage the advanced systems management capabilities of Microsoft Systems Center Essentials in Level Platforms award winning managed services software.
Level Platforms will expand its comprehensive managed services software solution, Managed Workplace, so that solution providers will have the ability to easily configure and access Systems Center Essentials (Essentials) features directly from Level Platforms central management dashboard.
With approximately 2500 solution provider partners in 23 countries, Level Platforms is the global leader in the market for remote monitoring and management software for solution providers offering managed services to their small and midsized customers.
Level Platforms is a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner with deep commitment to Microsoft standards and technologies. Based on their ground breaking .NET managed services software application, Level Platforms was awarded Microsoft’s Worldwide ISV Small Business Solution of the Year in 2005 followed by the Worldwide ISV Sales and Marketing Partner of the Year award in 2006.
“We attribute much of our success to our strong commitment to leveraging Microsoft technologies for solution providers offering managed services to their small and mid-sized business customers,” said Peter Sandiford, CEO of Level Platforms. “This agreement represents the next step in this relationship as we accelerate our joint efforts to help Microsoft Partners transition to managed services so that they can deliver the ultimate IT experience to the millions of businesses they serve.”
Level Platforms’ success is based on addressing three key business drivers demanded by SMB managed services providers – extreme ease of use, comprehensive end-to-end features and full multi vendor integration. As a result of this agreement, solution providers will be able to leverage the advanced Microsoft monitoring features of Essentials while taking full advantage of the simple and intuitive user interface, rich feature set and deep multi vendor capabilities of Managed Workplace.
“Businesses are facing increasingly complex IT environments and need solutions that enable them to more easily manage their infrastructure while reducing costs and maximizing their IT resources,” said Eric Berg, director of product management for Microsoft System Center products. “Level Platforms has a large customer base of service providers serving small and mid-sized businesses and we are excited to help them bring Essentials to these customers. Many of Level Platforms service provider partners serve customers with less than 100 PCs and this Agreement compliments our own System Center Remote Operations Manager 2007 offering, which enables service providers serving the upper segments of the Small and Medium Business market. Now service providers of all sizes will be able to benefit from Systems Center Essentials.”