The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is the only groupware specifically designed to meet the needs of SaaS providers. With over 15 million users, Open-Xchange is now the world's leading technology supplier of groupware for web-hosting companies, ISPs, telecommunication companies and IT service companies. Open-Xchange customers include 1 & 1 Internet (U.S., Germany), Network Solutions (USA), and many others.

The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is a modular solution that allows you to ...

  • replace an old webmail solution with the AJAX-based business-class webmail solution from Open-Xchange – without changing the existing e-mail server infrastructure
  • build additional revenue by offering innovative collaboration features to your new and existing customers on the new Open-Xchange Webmail platform
  • offer favourable state-of-the-art mobility solutions for all your customers with interesting margins for you
  • gradually expand their product range by modular SaaS offerings

Take a look at the WHIR tv video interview with Frank Hoberg, EVP Sales and Marketing of Open-Xchange, that explains the benefits for service providers in a nutshell.

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Integrates into existing IT infrastructure
The architecture of the Open-Xchange Hosting Edition enables seamless integration into existing infrastructures with existing tools for authentication, user setup, system administration, accounting and e-mail storage.
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Open-Xchange Hosting Edition provides open interfaces, which permit link-up to tools for monitoring and automated system administration and system maintenance - ensuring availability for customers around the clock, 365 days a year.

The use of the OSGi framework makes the Open-Xchange Hosting Edition into an open SaaS platform, where you can further integrate SaaS applications such as CRM and ERP.

The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition offers a complete client capability that makes it possible to operate many thousands of customers simultaneously in a virtual server environment. This guarantees customers consistently good efficiency and performance and utilizes hardware resources in the best possible way. Because of the technology partnership with Parallels, SaaS providers can also use Parallels' virtualization and automation solutions for managing the Open-Xchange Hosting Edition.

Integrates into Parallels Plesk Panel

Open-Xchange and 4PSA provide you with OXtender for Plesk, a fully automation solution designed to integrate Parallels Plesk Panel, the leading hosting automation control panel on the market, with Open-Xchange.
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Integrates into Parallels Operations Automation

Powerful features built into Parallels Automation system allow easy roll-out of value-added services such as Open-Xchange based offerings to achieve higher average revenue per user while simultaneously allowing service providers to manage their operations more efficiently.
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The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition will be offered in the form of the following modules:

Module 1: Open-Xchange Webmail

  • AJAX-based user interface, drag and drop functionality and right-mouse-button context menus
  • Server-side user-related e-mail filtering rules
  • Text and HTML-formatted e-mail support, plus personal signatures, vCard attachments
  • Private contacts
  • Collect e-mail contacts
  • Integrated upsell trigger when clicking on a feature which is not available in this module

Module 2: Open-Xchange PIM

Includes Module 1 and the following features

  • Private calendar, private tasks
  • Integration with other e-mail services (Unified Inbox)
  • Collect e-mail contacts
  • Integration of other e-mail services (Unified Inbox)
  • Publish contacts to external users beyond family or company borders
  • Subscribe contacts from your frequently visited Social Networks
  • Subscribe Twitter®, RSS or Facebook® feeds and display them in your web interface
  • Subscribe and merge appointments from e.g. Google Calendar®
  • Mobile device enabled
  • Integrated upsell trigger when clicking on a feature which is not available in this module

Module 3: Open-Xchange InfoStore

The "Open-Xchange InfoStore" Module includes the following additional features as a supplement to Open-Xchange PIM:

  • InfoStore provides users capabilities for document sharing, knowledge database, bookmark management and version management.
  • Publishing documents to external users beyond family or company borders
  • Private, public and shared InfoStore folders
  • WebDAV interface for InfoStore (Including the InfoStore as a network drive, for example, in Windows Explorer, MacOS or a Linux environment)
  • Integrated upsell trigger when clicking on a feature which is not available in this module

Module 4: Open-Xchange Groupware Standard

Includes Module 1, 2, 3 and the following features:

  • Private, public and shared contacts - internal and other address books
  • Global address book
  • Creating appointments for other internal and external participants - "secretary function"
  • Creating and controlling tasks - "manager function"
  • Advanced scheduling features including team and resource management
  • Private, public and shared InfoStore folders
  • DocuMail: sending InfoStore objects as a link or attachment
  • Set read and write access for individual users and groups
  • Publish documents to grant easy and up-to-date access for e.g. partners

Module 5: Open-Xchange Groupware Premium

Includes Module 1, 2, 3, 4 and the following features:

  • OXtender for Microsoft Outlook, synchronizes Open-Xchange calendar, contacts, tasks and folders with Microsoft Outlook
  • OXtender for Mac OS X, which makes Open-Xchange e-mails, appointments, contacts, tasks and documents available to end users through their native Mac applications - Mail, iCal and Address Book.
  • OXtender for Business Mobility (Module 6), which provides automatic PIM synchronization and push E-mail
  • OXupdater functionalities

Service provider that use Open-Xchange Hosting Edition can add OXtender for Business Mobility to their implementation at any time. For more information, please send us your request.

Module 6: OXtender for Business Mobility

Includes the following additional features as a supplement to PIM and Groupware:

  • Users' personal communication data always synchronized with Open-Xchange and manageable anywhere via mobile phone
  • End-to-end encrypted e-mail and PIM data push
  • Account management directly from the mobile device
  • Single-Sign-On (SSO)
  • Device coverage includes iPhone, Windows smartphones and other Exchange ActiveSync compatible devices
  • BlackBerry (PIM) and Android clients for Exchange ActiveSync available. More

Service provider that use Open-Xchange Hosting Edition can add OXtender for Business Mobility to their implementation at any time. For more information, please send us your request.