CINCINNATI, OH., March 11, 2008– Ordovician, a leading provider of managed and hosted strong authentication, intrusion prevention, managed firewalls, virtual private network services and mobile worker connectivity, today announced that it has received accreditation under the MSPAlliance’s (MSPA) Managed Services Accreditation Program (MSAP). MSAP is the first program of its kind, specifically designed and created to provide customers of managed services providers with the assurance that the services provider they hire meets or exceeds the highest principles of quality in areas such as financial stability, facilities, managed services practices, and customer satisfaction.
"The Managed Services Accreditation Program is a rigorous program that benchmarks and verifies the quality of the company providing managed services,” said Charles Weaver, MSPAlliance president. "We are very proud to have Ordovician as a part of this prestigious body of MSPs.”
MSAP was created, using a wide base of criteria that will properly encompass a wide range of managed service providers. By covering buying and service delivery criteria that matter to customers, the MSAP certification program tracks and measures a satisfactory level of professional and business practices, helping MSPs to consistently deliver superior services to their clients.
“It is not an easy task to achieve MSAP accreditation,” said Mike Backers, Ordovician’s president and CEO. “But it ultimately benefits both us and our customers. We earn a higher degree of trust from our clients; they know that we operate at the highest level of dependency and capability.”
The MSPAlliance, with more than 4000 corporate members worldwide, is committed to increasing reliability and dependability in the industry surrounding the value and benefit of using Managed Service Providers to provide a wide range of mission-critical services. In addition, the MSPAlliance collects data on the practice of managed services on behalf of its members, to help them increase the value delivery of IT to the organizations they serve.
About Ordovician
Ordovician was founded in 1997 as the Internet began to make a meaningful impact on traditional business practices. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ordovician maintains secure and fully staffed 24x7 carrier grade facilities with redundant power, connectivity and equipment. A second datacenter is maintained with a unique architecture to provide fully managed, hosted, always on service for our clients.
Ordovician services clients across the globe with concentrated presence in Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, District of Columbia, Indianapolis, London, Manhattan, Ontario, Seattle, Silicon Valley and Tokyo.
• We maintain a balanced approach to blend innovation, integration and resale into a measurable and demonstrable value for our customers. • We integrate our own innovative products and services with those of the brightest companies and the best available technology into “bundles” for our customers to pick up, take with them and use for their benefit. • We do what our customers can not or do not want to do. We do it cheaper and better. We create value for our customers and take pride when they thank us for a job well done. Ordovician focuses on vertical markets where information and communication security and availability are mission critical to the success of the client. Protecting the information within the client organization and evermore with their revenue streams and external customers, Ordovician is persistently seeking markets to create value. Strong vertical markets for Ordovician are Law Firms, Accounting Firms, Financial Service and Support Firms, Banking, Medical Practices, Biotechnology, Health Insurance Providers, Corporate Education and Public Education, Information and Software Technology, Global Manufacturing, Distribution and Retail Companies, Real Estate Industry and Petroleum Industry. In each of these vertical markets, Ordovician has developed and proven unique value for its clients.Ordovician adheres to the MSPAlliance Consumer Bill of Rights and Code of Ethics.The MSPAlliance is a global organization made up of service providers and technology enablers who work in a collaborative effort to define, promote and educate the Managed Services Industry and the end-user consumer on the adoption and successful use of technology through Managed Services.
