PHASE 2 - SaaS Provider Puts Lotus Products to Work for SMB

HONOLULU--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PHASE 2 International (www.phase2.com) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with IBM to begin hosting the Lotus Software Suite under the PHASE 2 SaaS model. The new offering consists of the IBM®/Lotus® business collaboration suite: Lotus Notes - enterprise email messaging, Lotus Sametime – secure instant messaging, Lotus Quickr - collaborative document sharing, and Lotus Connections - secure corporate social network.

The software will be offered through PHASE 2’s easy to use and cost-effective SaaS model. Under the model, licensing costs are based solely on monthly usage and there are no upfront costs or contract requirements. Included with the monthly charges are data migration, customization, training, and 24x7 support. Applications are provided in a high-availability configuration and come complete with client software.

The new Phase 2 hosted IBM Lotus offering allows on-demand more businesses to take advantage of the power of Lotus’ collaborative business applications by reducing overhead and overall costs. “Challenging economic times require that companies seek efficiency in every possible area,” said Kevin Doherty, PHASE 2 CEO. “Our business is efficiency—providing small and mid-sized organizations affordable access to the same sophisticated software solutions used by Fortune 500 companies.”

For more information on the on demand version of the Lotus suite, please visit www.phase2.com/lotus.

About PHASE 2 International

PHASE 2 International delivers affordable and scalable access to high-end business software applications via a Software as a Service—SaaS—model. Ideal for businesses of all sizes, and especially practical for small-to-medium-sized businesses, the hosted applications currently include the IBM Lotus Notes, Sametime, Quickr and Connections; Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange (with support for Blackberry devices), Project Server, CRM, and Team Foundation Server, for software developers; and PHASE 2’s ShareMeeting. The hosted applications are delivered across the web to enable on-demand access to corporate information whenever and wherever in the world the user happens to be. PHASE 2 is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii and operates a secure, state-of-the-art data center. For more information visit www.phase2.com.