News.Focussing resources on APac region for early SaaS growth

FOCUSSING RESOURCES ON APAC REGION FOR EARLY SAAS GROWTH

Hong Kong, 11 January, 2009 – Presence Networks Limited, a market leader in secure real time communications, today announced that Mike Lagunowitsch, former GM Sales for Verizon Business is to join the company as VP APac and head its drive into developing and supporting Service Providers as Sales Channel Partners for its NetWorker Unified Comms SaaS system.

Lagunowitsch who left Verizon Business in mid 2008 said: "As soon as I saw the NetWorker system and heard the proposition for Service Providers I was convinced that this was an offering that would play well here and wanted to be involved. NetWorker was designed for the SaaS model unlike most other Unified Comms Software. Some are now being reverse engineered to try to fit into a connected world whereas NetWorker started from the premise that Business needs a quick and easy to learn solutions that have a low cost of entry, measurable ROI and can be internally controlled to ensure that all the boxes for security, connectivity and compliance are ticked."

The Presence Networks NetWorker system was designed multi-tenanted for Service Providers rather than as software deployed to a customer and has a powerful management, reporting and provisioning capability built in. It integrates both desktop and mobile devices including the RIM Blackberry into secure networks that can be linked together to provide secure, beyond the firewall collaboration.

Presence Networks CEO Symon Blomfield Commented: "With Mike onboard our strategy will be to focus on licencing installations or providing white label services to a small number of the strategic Service Provider players within the APac Region. That way we can be sure we don’t overstretch our resources and Carrier Partners have the support they need to offer and sell these new services effectively."