Jamcracker Integration Toolkit Enables ISVs to Quickly and Easily On-Board Their...

Jamcracker Integration Toolkit Enables ISVs to Quickly and Easily On-Board Their Services to SaaS Marketplace

New SaaS Providers Join Jamcracker Service Delivery Network at
Unprecedented Pace in Q1
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Jamcracker, the on-demand services delivery company, today
announced the Jamcracker Integration Toolkit (JIT), which makes it
quick and easy for Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors of all sizes
to make their applications available within the Jamcracker Services
Delivery Network (JSDN). JIT is an XML-based do-it-yourself service
integration framework that greatly simplifies the effort required for
publishing SaaS solutions to the JSDN Global Services Catalog. Several
vendors have already used JIT to publish their applications on the
JSDN, including Averiware, Brainshark, LongJump, RHUB, Topia
Technology, and XOffice International.

"As business acceptance of SaaS accelerates, software vendors of
all sizes are seeking easier and quicker methods to start reselling
their SaaS offerings to respond to rising customer demand," said
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, an
independent consulting firm, and the Founder of the SaaS Showplace, an
online directory of SaaS solutions and best practices. "The Jamcracker
Services Delivery Network is emerging as one of the industry's leading
SaaS aggregation and distribution hubs for both software vendors and
service providers because of its rapid on-boarding capabilities."

SaaS ISVs who are part of the JSDN have the ability to leverage
Jamcracker's ecommerce WebStores, billing, provisioning, customer
support, helpdesk, and administrative services. WebStores allow ISVs
to resell their services directly, as well as through Jamcracker's
global service-delivery channel partners including Telcos, Value Added
Resellers (VARs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Web Hosting
providers that rely on the JSDN to offer SaaS products.

Fast and Simple Integration

To provide on-demand as well as traditional software partners with
a fast on-ramp for selling SaaS versions of their applications,
Jamcracker created JIT. This XML based integration framework makes it
easy for vendors to make their products JSDN-ready without in-depth
knowledge of the Jamcracker Platform and its associated provisioning
and billing mechanisms. All that is required to use JIT is a working
knowledge of XML. Jamcracker provides ISVs with developer support as
well as certification and acceptance-testing of the their JSDN
adapter.

"Until now, Jamcracker would develop adapters on behalf of our ISV
partners. However, demand for specialized and vertical software
applications from service providers, resellers, and their end-user
customers has necessitated the creation of an open integration
framework to allow self-service solution publishing," said Steve
Crawford, vice president of marketing for Jamcracker. "The Jamcracker
Integration Toolkit allows software vendors to get their applications
into our delivery network quickly and easily, so service-delivery
partners can create custom solution bundles for their customers.
Meanwhile, it enables us to grow our ecosystem of services at a
compounded rate."

Large and Growing Catalogue of SaaS Applications

Well over one hundred applications, services, and solution bundles
are currently available on the JSDN in several categories including:
IT services, security and continuity, communications and
collaboration, business application solutions, mobile access, and
vertical solutions. These solutions include SaaS offerings from
Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, McAfee, Motorola, BlackBerry, and dozens of
other ISVs and service providers.

Availability

Access to the Jamcracker Integration Toolkit is available
immediately for qualified software partners. For more information, and
to start the registration process, visit: www.jamcracker.com/partners.

About Jamcracker

The Jamcracker Services Delivery Network enables Telcos, Internet
Service Providers, VARs, MSPs and SaaS vendors to profitably deliver
on-demand services to businesses and consumers. Founded in 1999 by
K.B. "Chandra" Chandrasekhar, the founder of Exodus Communications and
chairman of e4e Services and Aztec Software, Jamcracker's mission is
to enable on-demand service delivery on a global scale. Jamcracker is
a privately held company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California,
and offices in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit
www.jamcracker.com.

ISV Partner Testimonials

"The Jamcracker Services Delivery Network allows Averiware to
reach a much larger distribution and reseller channel then we could
have done alone given our current marketing resources. In addition to
the value of reaching a larger base of small to midsize businesses,
Jamcracker keeps the customer registration, billing and customer
services simple and straight forward."

-- Emmanuel Mathew, CEO, Averiware Inc.

"The Jamcracker Services Delivery Network exposes Brainshark to a
large market of telecom service providers and resellers looking to
offer their customers the market-leading SaaS solution for on-demand
presentations."

-- Andy Zimmerman, Vice President of Business Development,
Brainshark, Inc.

"The Jamcracker Service Delivery Network provides LongJump with an
important sales channel to telecom services providers and resellers.
We easily integrated our on-demand business applications using the
Jamcracker Integration Toolkit so we can quickly start selling into
entirely new markets."

-- Pankaj Malviya, CEO, LongJump

"We are extremely excited about the Jamcracker partnership as we
are confident that a cost effective Web conferencing solution will be
attractive to the Jamcracker channel. As an indirect company, the
Jamcracker model is an ideal model for RHUB. During the integration,
we found the Jamcracker Integration Toolkit very easy to use and
implement. It took us less than half the time we originally estimated
and their support team was very responsive."

-- Larry Dorie, CEO & Chairman, RHUB

"We are thrilled to be working with Jamcracker. The Jamcracker
Service Delivery Network instantly puts our product, Skoot, in front
of a large market of telecom service providers and resellers. In
addition, the Jamcracker integration Toolkit made it easy for us to
tie into their turnkey infrastructure, saving us time and money."

-- Janine Terrano, CEO, Topia Technology

"XOffice has chosen to work with Jamcracker and integrate with its
Jamcracker Service Delivery Network because we feel that Jamcracker
exposes our software services, the XOffice Mobile Environment, to a
large market of telecom service providers and resellers looking to
offer their customers the best available on-demand services to solve
business problems and boost productivity."

-- Rodolphe Becker, Managing Director, XOffice International

Jamcracker
Marc Gendron, 781-237-0341
marc@mgpr.net

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