NOVATO, Calif. -- March 23, 2005 -- Nacio Systems Inc., a California-based Tier 1 hosting service provider today announced a partnership with Ektron, Inc., to provide a fully managed hosting solution for Ektron's content management (CMS) customers. This partnership enables Ektron's customers to benefit from the power and value of best-in-class content management solutions in a managed, hosted environment.
"The goal of this alliance is to deliver our customers a fully managed hosting solution that provides a secure and stable environment for Ektron CMS enabled Web applications," said Bill Rogers, founder and CEO, Ektron, Inc. "This model allows customers to leverage the power of Ektron's content management solutions across their regional and global networks with a secure, high-availability Tier 1 hosting provider."
By partnering with Nacio, Ektron will be able to offer its customers the extraordinary value and high-functionality of the Ektron CMS product line in an ASP-environment. The hosted model delivers not only the optimal security, redundancy and availability of Tier 1 hosted software but the ability to purchase such mission critical solutions like Ektron's CMS on a monthly subscription basis.
For many IT purchase decision makers, this means they can avoid the budgeting and expenditure challenges typically associated with acquiring these solutions through the more traditional capital asset purchase process.
"The ASP-model is an all-around win for our current and future shared customers with Ektron," said Nacio's Vice President for Client Services, Thom Kennon. "We've long recognized the leading market position and the extremely high value of the Ektron product line of solutions. Their eWebEditPro tool and CMS packages are already an important part of the toolkit within our interactive solutions group. The match-up also fits extremely well with our new "Via" product/service line -- Ektron-via-Nacio is the first of what will be many Nacio-hosted product solutions that will allow businesses to benefit from the power and value of best-in-class solutions in a managed, hosted environment."
About Ektron
Ektron provides Web content management software and editor tools that make it easy for anyone to author, manage and publish HTML and XML content for Web sites, intranets and Web applications. Our browser-based solutions, used in more than 13,000 integrations worldwide, include the Ektron CMS family, the eWebEditPro and eWebEditPro+XML editors and WebImageFX, our easy-to-use image editor. Ektron is redefining Web content management with highly affordable solutions that integrate easily, are flexible and grow with any organization. Founded in 1998, Ektron is based in Amherst, NH, and has offices in Europe. Learn more about Ektron at www.ektron.com.
About Nacio
Nacio delivers hosted IT solutions to corporate customers, supporting their business with outsourced e-commerce, content management, document management, digital publishing, network software auditing and customer relationship management. The Nacio model affords companies the cost-efficiencies and operational advantages of out-sourcing the installation, maintenance, management and support of critical IT applications to a trusted partner. Nacio hosts, manages and maintains these customer assets at its secure, high-availability Tier 1 hosting center in Northern California -- reducing costs, mitigating failure and increasing reliability.
