1. Cobalt Group To Offer Excedent's
Proven Email Hosting Solutions To
General Motors
Cobalt and Excedent Partnership Continues to
Expand Reach within Automotive Retail Space
Blacksburg, Va.(PRWEB) October 19, 2004 --
Excedent Technologies, the proven provider of email
hosting solutions for small businesses, announced
today that its private-label reseller, The Cobalt Group,
is offering Excedents hosted email solutions to General
Motors. The Cobalt and Excedent partnership
continues to expand its reach and drive growth for both
companies within the automotive retail space.
Cobalt currently provides email hosting to more than
1,000 automotive retailers worldwide, and that number
is growing rapidly as the company continues to roll out
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2. Excedent email services to all of its 15,000 customers.
This announcement comes just weeks after The Cobalt
Group announced the launch of GM PowerShift, the
next generation Web site solution program that helps
GM dealerships manage their online retail business.
As part of the PowerShift package, Cobalt will offer
email hosting powered by Excedent.
The dealers told us that they needed personalized
email accounts, but didnt want to bear the
administrative costs required to host and manage
internal messaging systems," explained Matt
Muilenberg, director of business development at The
Cobalt Group. Our partnership with Excedent allows
us to meet the needs of our customers, focus on our
core competencies and stay competitive in a messaging
market that evolves quite rapidly."
From the start, the Excedent - Cobalt strategy was
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3. designed to give dealerships all the advantages of
advanced email without any of the attendant burdens
of administration," said Patrick Mathews, chief
executive officer of Excedent Technologies. We will
continue to partner with high-value companies like The
Cobalt Group to provide small and geographically
dispersed businesses with the best email solution
available."
Cobalt and Excedent partnered more than two years
ago to provide automotive retailers with locally
branded email accounts and Webmail access. Cobalt,
which provides e-business solutions specifically to
automotive retailers, offers email hosting packages that
include large mailboxes, virus protection and spam
filtering, all hosted within Excedent carrier-grade data
centers in the United States.
As an Excedent Private-Label Reseller, Cobalt also
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4. offers branded Webmail access and a customer control
panel that fully integrates with other administrative
functions provided with their Web service packages.
Cobalts relationship with Excedent has added a great
deal of value to our outsourcing proposition,"
proclaimed Mr. Muilenberg. The adoption rate of their
hosted email system has been fantastic and feedback
from our customers has been very positive. We expect
the same response as we continue to roll out the email
solution to our current new customers such as General
Motors. Excedent has done everything they said they
were going to do, and more. We look forward to
continued growth of this relationship for many years to
come."
The Web-based email service offered by Excedent
features a comprehensive range of benefits that help
meet the communications requirements of todays
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5. automobile dealers, including:
· Domain-based email address
(name@mycardealership.com)
· Remote email access from any Internet-connected
location through a Cobalt-branded Webmail interface
· Compatibility with desktop client software such as
Microsoft Outlook® and Eudora®
· Online management tools allowing customers to add
and delete email accounts and aliases
· Comprehensive protection from spam, viruses and
security threats
About Excedent Technologies
Excedent Technologies is the proven provider of
email hosting solutions for small businesses. The
company equips small businesses with enterprise class
email hosting based on scalable, open-source software
applications. Excedent delivers email hosting
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6. solutions through a growing channel of private-label
reseller partners, as well as reaching small businesses
directly through its Webmail.us subsidiary. Founded
in 1999, Excedent is a privately held company serving
more than 3,500 businesses worldwide. For more
information please visit us at www.excedent.com.
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logo, the Excedent Private-Label Reseller Programs,
the Webmail.us logo and any combinations thereof are
the property of Excedent Technologies, Inc. All other
brand and product names are used for identification
only and are owned by their respective holders.
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7. Contact Information
Ed Schauweker
Excedent Technologies, Inc.
http://www.excedent.com
703-963-5238
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