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PLEASANTON, CALIF. – May 19, 2008 – ZINFI Technologies Inc and AutoTask Corporation have signed a co-marketing and technology integration agreement enabling both companies to offer a comprehensive service enablement platform that is purpose-built for professional service organizations. The combined offering will enable technology solution providers to increase ROI easily and at low cost by improving efficiency, growing their existing customer base and acquiring new customers. It will be showcased at the MSPAlliance Managed Services Summit in Boston, MA from May 19 to 20.
Autotask Corporation is the leading developer of Professional Services Automation (PSA) software for value added resellers, managed services providers (MSP), systems integrators, IT service providers and consultants. ZINFI Technologies is a master service provider of customized, automated sales and e-marketing enablement solutions. ZINFI’s ZORIGAMI-PRO (Z-PRO) marketing and sales automation platform helps solution providers acquire new customers and grow revenues from their existing customer base. Users of the combined solution set will benefit from complementary back-end and front-end services automation solutions that help them improve asset and event management, increase customer satisfaction and create an expanded market opportunity.
In the first phase of the partnership, ZINFI will offer Autotask’s industry-leading PSA software to its solution provider customers. In the second phase of the agreement, Autotask and ZINFI will integrate their technologies to provide an even greater level of simplicity and productivity.
Autotask Vice President of Channel Sales Jake Carroll said, “By partnering with ZINFI, our mutual customers gain the ability to market their services as well as improve their business processes. The combination provides a streamlined path to growth for service providers.”
Sugata Sanyal, President and Chief Executive Officer at ZINFI, commented, “Delivering IT services is costly and time-consuming unless the provider is able to scale by putting efficient processes in place. With Autotask’s back office solutions and ZINFI’s customer-facing platform we provide a neat and affordable answer to the challenge of growing and maintaining profitability.”
Solutions for service provider professionals Autotask’s software is designed to optimize service providers’ processes and workflow to help them manage all their professional services, including managed services, break-fix, consulting engagements, system integration, networking projects, software implementations, service desk contracts, and scheduled maintenance. In addition to productivity tools, Autotask also offers reporting capabilities that to keep track of profitability in real time.