Intermedia Partner Program Reviews from Media and Analysts

“The Intermedia reseller portfolio also includes hosted Microsoft Exchange, so VARs and MSPs can offer a hosted convergence platform to their customers, including: voice, email and instant messaging. That allows these SMB customers to improve their employee and system productivity with an integrated communications system, which typically increases their customer satisfaction at the same time. With the ability to “white label” the hosted PBX offering, it gives solution providers another value added option for their portfolio.” Channel Trends

“…multiple MSPs told me they will not embrace a cloud service unless it has white label and end-customer billing capabilities” Joe Panettierileading channel editorial directorTalkin’ Cloud

“At the Intermedia Partner Summit here in New York City, roughly 100 VARs and MSPs are trying to make a name for themselves promoting hosted Exchange and cloud services. Only the top Intermedia partners got an invite to this exclusive event”Talkin’ Cloud

"Several companies continue to grow and Intermedia is clearly one of them. [They] have performed consistently... [and] built a nice foundation…the timing could not be better… with growing interest in third-party outsourcing, migration to online communications, proliferation in Web-enabled mobile devices and a growing population of remote workers and teams."Tier 1 Research

"Intermedia's rapidly growing sales through Ingram are also good news for the distributor's efforts to build up its managed services offerings…This week Ingram Micro gave Intermedia its Services Award of Excellence for 2010, announcing the award at the distributor's annual marketing symposium in Anaheim, Calif."CRN

“Host with the Most. The relationship between Ingram Micro Seismic and Intermedia, the hosted Exchange specialist, seems to be flourishing. The relationship has led to more than 5,000 mailbox deployments involving hundreds of partners and increasing growth on a monthly basis, according to Intermedia.”The Var Guy

Intermedia is involved with large hosting and consulting firms across the U.S. and Europe. If you’re a VAR searching for a hosted Exchange offering, ask the service provider who’s actually powering the system. In quite a few cases, the hidden answer is Intermedia.The Var Guy

Partners working with Intermedia clearly are responding to trends developing in the marketplace.Tier-1 Research

"Intermedia makes the value to solution providers clear: faster benefit, lower risk. Rather than having to make the investment in expensive servers and integrating Exchange for service delivery, Intermedia makes the service practically plug-and-play. Additionally, Intermedia assumes the costs of monitoring and maintaining the infrastructure. Both are good value propositions for solution providers, who often can't afford the initial capital outlay for infrastructure."Channel Insider

"The Intermedia Exchange 2010 offering is impressive, given that it provides its resellers with access to a hot cloud-based application without the expense of building infrastructure for hosting and supporting numerous clients. The company built a special platform just for Exchange 2010 to ensure reliability. And, the private-label Exchange 2010 program is coupled with the existing referral program through which partners can earn money by selling Intermedia's other hosted services—SharePoint, Communications Server, Exchange 2007."Channel Insider

"[Intermedia] resellers will get a nice head start on the competition, enabling them to capture customers that have been waiting for Exchange 2010 and are either ready to adopt hosted Exchange now that the new version is out or make the upgrade."Tier-1 Research

"Solutions providers that offer BPOS essentially promote Microsoft’s brand to end-customers. In contrast, Intermedia’s white label partner program allows solutions providers to rebrand hosted applications as their own."The Var Guy

"Companies like Intermedia are striving to provide a safe haven to solutions providers that want to re-brand SaaS applications as their own."MSP Mentor