Integrated Communications provider, Spectranet announced a new partnership with cloud computing company, nivio to offer subscription-based messaging and collaboration services. The services will be offered on a special ‘Pay- As- You- Go’ and ‘Zero Investment’ model.

The hosted solutions on offer include from basic email solutions to high end enterprise applications on the robust Microsoft exchange platform.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Udit Mehrotra, Director, Spectranet, said, “At Spectranet, we believe in enabling our clients to work efficiently and keep pace in a very competitive market environment. We are focusing a lot on offering innovative ‘Voice & Data’ solutions for the enterprise and BPO sector. In this regard, it gives me immense pleasure to announce our offerings in ‘Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Services’ in partnership with nivio. We see tremendous growth in the overall email market in India growing from mere 15% in 2008 to CAGR of 52% by 2012. There is a huge potential of our hosted services from sectors such as IT/ITeS, BFSI, Government, Manufacturing, Telecom, Health, Retail, Trading etc.

Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Matt Colebourne, Chief Operating Officer, nivio, said, “We are delighted to be working with Spectranet to reach out to a much larger audience and offer hosted messaging and collaboration.  Hosted services are the future; enterprises reap the benefits of rapid deployment, best of breed solutions and scalability.  They are also liberated from the financial headache of capital expense buying hardware and software and, instead, transform this into monthly spends based on usage.”