Wellesley, Mass. - November 14, 2011 - THINKstrategies, Inc., the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market, announced today that CloudPointe has been named the latest winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.
The BoSS Awards is an ongoing program of THINKstrategies' new Cloud Computing Showplace which recognizes SaaS companies that are producing tangible business benefits for specific user organizations. These benefits can include increased sales, lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster operations and greater profitability.
CloudPointe is a Cloud middleware company that offers a SaaS-based platform to create secure, embeddable collaborative workspaces to share documents and media files using existing SharePoint, Google Docs, Amazon S3 and other cloud and enterprise storage. CloudPointe offers free and developer accounts that connect to FTP and Google Docs storage. An example of the business benefits derived from CloudPointe's solution is Stratus Interactive, a marketing and advertising agency located in the Greater Philadelphia area. The company sends many proposals and proofs, both graphic and video, to its customers. Its old process forced employees to be responsible for saving client work on their internal storage, converting the files to user-friendly formats such as .jpg, .pdf, etc. and emailing attachments or uploading them to offsite storage for client access. With CloudPointe, their internal workflow has been preserved, Stratus Interactive then sends links to the documents they want to share, and CloudPointe automatically creates previews of the source files, including office documents, Photoshop files and videos. CloudPointe document links can be optionally secured to prevent recipients from downloading, printing and sharing with others. Because CloudPointe retains their existing workflow, Stratus Interactive can make revisions and save them internally, and customers always have access to the updated versions of the files. This maintains single-source integrity, reducing data duplication, and has cut the time spent on each customer by 10%.
It is for these reasons that CloudPointe has been named a Best of SaaS Showplace Award winner. A summary of the company's winning BoSS Award submission can be found at http://cloudshowplace.com/awardSummary.php?key=2144.
"We are pleased to be recognized by THINKstrategies and the Cloud Computing Showplace for the business value of our solution," said Andrew Schwabe, CloudPointe CEO. "We are excited to offer solutions to so many important industry needs which until now have gone unaddressed."
"Distributing and managing documents in a cost-effective and efficient fashion has never been more important in order to satisfy customers' escalating demands," stated Jeffrey M. Kaplan, the founder of the SaaS Showplace which is now a part of the new Cloud Computing Showplace, and Managing Director of THINKstrategies, the strategic consulting firm which conceived and administers the Showplace. "CloudPointe's Cloud-based enterprise document management capabilities enable users to address these rising requirements."
For more information about the rules for applying for a BoSS Award or to find a list of previous winners of the BoSS Awards, go to http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/boss.html.
Based on the success of the BoSS Awards program which focuses on SaaS solutions, THINKstrategies has launched the Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program to recognize companies which are delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions producing measurable business benefits for their customers. For more information regarding the CCBV Awards, see http://www.cloudshowplace.com/awardprograms/ccbv.php.
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About the SaaS and Cloud Computing Showplace
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Showplace is a part of the newly expanded Cloud Computing Showplace, the largest, vendor-independent, online directory and best practice resource center of SaaS, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions including Managed Services, founded and administered by THINKstrategies.
The original Showplace was established in 2006 to provide the following benefits,
- Give enterprise decision-makers a quick directory of the leading SaaS providers and a convenient source of valuable insight regarding SaaS trends.
- Give SaaS providers a targeted tool to increase their visibility among enterprise decision-makers, and gain access to key enabling technology suppliers.
- Give enabling technology suppliers a specialized platform to increase industry awareness regarding their SaaS solutions.
For more information, go to www.cloudshowplace.com.
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About THINKstrategies, Inc.
THINKstrategies, Inc. is the only strategic consulting services company focused entirely on helping its clients capitalize on the unprecedented business opportunities created by the technology industry shift from a product-centric to a services-driven orientation and an 'on-demand' delivery model.
THINKstrategies' mission is to help our clients re-THINK their corporate strategies, and refocus their limited resources to achieve their business objectives. THINKstrategies helps enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies, IT solutions providers with their marketing strategies, and VCs with their investment strategies.
For more information regarding THINKstrategies' unique consulting services, visit www.thinkstrategies.com, or contact us at info@thinkstrategies.com.
