Affinity Internet Collaborates With Microsoft to Deliver Unparalleled Functionality to Hosting Customers

HostReview.com
Wednesday, March 21, 2007; 03:48 AM

Affinity Internet, the leading web site, ecommerce and online marketing service provider for web professionals and small businesses, has expanded its product line and is now offering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 under Affinity's ValueWeb brand. Windows SharePoint Services is a powerful online collaboration tool used to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. Affinity is offering three levels of paid hosting packages: SharePoint Express, SharePoint Advanced and SharePoint Pro, all of which will integrate a robust, feature-rich hosting plan and domain with the full range of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 lightweight application functionalities.

"We strive to continue to offer our customers valuable solutions to help better maintain their businesses effectively online," said John Enright, vice president of sales and marketing, Affinity Internet. "By offering Windows SharePoint Services, we are providing a powerful new platform for business collaboration and productivity. Windows SharePoint Services are easily implemented and allow extended functionality for businesses to reduce communication overhead. Employees can stay connected and work together more effectively by taking advantage of the document store capabilities and application templates for business processes in Windows SharePoint Services such as customer relationship management, budget management, and inventory control."

Some features available through Windows SharePoint Services allow for:
# Coordinating calendars and appointments
# Showcasing key products and services
# Checking on product availability and inventory
# Increasing efficiencies in daily business operations
# Monitoring important deadlines
# Enhancing efficiencies, which allow for the work environment to redirect employee energies towards specific project work
# Customizing capabilities through the "Fantastic 40" application templates

The "Fantastic 40" provides out-of-the-box custom scenarios tailored to address the needs and requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks in organizations of any size, and immediately manage internal and external-facing data more efficiently.

"Affinity Internet to offer its customers the latest technologies allowing them to streamline their businesses and increase their bottom line. Microsoft believes in our work and has shown a solid commitment to helping us answer the needs of small business owners," said Mark Richman, director, Windows development, Affinity Internet. "Due to this long-standing relationship, Affinity customers are able to access high-level technology and functionality that they otherwise might not be able to afford."

About Affinity Internet
Affinity Internet is committed to empowering its customers to write their own Internet success stories.

The company provides more than 200,000 web professionals and small businesses the tools to develop, maintain, market and support their web presence, making the Internet a useful and relevant part of their businesses. Affinity's brands include: ValueWeb, for web design, eCommerce hosting and online marketing solutions and Gate.com, the cutting-edge UNIX and Windows web hosting service. Affinity's co-brand and private-label partner programs enable leading service providers and Internet brands to extend their value proposition to include feature-rich web site, ecommerce and online marketing services and applications.

Affinity Internet Inc. is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with approximately 300 employees, and has been guiding businesses to web success since 1996.