AvePoint Enters New Partnership with Cloud|AG to Offer Customers Office 365 Managed Services

Partnership combines AvePoint’s Office 365 offerings with Cloud|AG’s extensive expertise to provide Office 365 customers a set of managed services for enhanced backup, recovery and administration of their Office 365 environment

Jersey City, NJ — June 2, 2014 — AvePoint, the established global leader in enterprise-class cloud management, governance, and compliance software solutions for next-generation social collaboration platforms, today announced a partnership with Cloud|AG, an Atlanta-based products and services company specializing in Microsoft's cloud-based collaboration and business applications. The agreement will enable the two companies to offer best-in-class managed services for modern businesses seeking enhanced backup, recovery, and administration of their Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365 and Azure.

AvePoint Online Services, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) management platform for Microsoft Office 365 and any cloud-hosted SharePoint environments, in tandem with Cloud|AG’s commitment to helping businesses of all sizes implement Microsoft’s strategic cloud platforms, will provide organizations worldwide a set of robust products and services designed to help customers implement and manage their Microsoft cloud-based solutions.

“As organizations look to keep up with both market and customer demands through cloud computing utilization, streamlined deployment, speedy user adoption, and comprehensive management of data and environments are extremely important,” said Andrew Norris, Vice President of North America Partner Team/Public Sector ACS, AvePoint. “With this partnership, businesses are getting the best of both worlds – AvePoint’s best-in-class cloud solutions paired with Cloud|AG’s proven expertise – in order to expand usage and adoption of Microsoft cloud technologies.”

AvePoint has helped more than 13,000 organizations enable enterprise collaboration since its founding in 2001. Since first releasing its software-as-a-service management platform for Office 365 and other cloud-hosted SharePoint environments in April 2013, AvePoint today supports approximately one million Office 365 production users.

Cloud|AG is a Microsoft Cloud Champion partner that provides products and services designed to assist companies of all sizes maximize the power and flexibility of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud platform. Along with specializing in Microsoft’s full range of cloud-based services, Cloud|AG also developed ServicePoint365 – a cloud-based template application designed to maximize the collaboration and content management capabilities of Office 365 - SharePoint Online.

“This partnership will be tremendous for customers seeking to enhance their organizations’ collaboration processes and everyday business operations through Microsoft’s cloud services,” said David Huseonica, President and CEO of Cloud|AG. “Organizations can confidently take advantage of the financial and operational benefits of moving to Microsoft’s cloud solutions while still being able to incorporate extended backup, recovery and administration consistent with their on-premises systems.”

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