AvePoint and amexus Partner to Provide Expert SharePoint Solutions

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New partnership formed to help clients maximise the productivity of their SharePoint platforms and fully leverage the capabilities of their SharePoint Technologies.

London, UK – August 10th, 2009 — AvePoint, the leading provider of infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced a partnership agreement with amexus, a highly-regarded provider of information technology services and solutions for the European SharePoint market.

“We are very excited to partner with amexus,” said Dr. Tianyi (TJ) Jiang, AvePoint’s Chief Operating Officer. “They have been delivering innovative and forward-leaning SharePoint solutions to clients throughout the EMEA market for several years, and have been integral in exposing enterprises to the benefits of the platform.”

AvePoint is the maker of award-winning backend management software for SharePoint, with products for data protection, disaster recovery, administration, archiving, storage optimization, compliance, eDiscovery, reporting, deployment management, and migration.

“Right from its launch, SharePoint has always been the main focus of the amexus team. With AvePoint’s management software solutions we can easily deliver tools for backup and managing complex SharePoint solutions.” said Stefan Nacke, Managing Director of amexus. “This makes it much easier for our consultants to implement comprehensive and scalable SharePoint solutions.”

amexus provides custom solutions and consulting services to enterprise, public-sector, and SMB clients throughout Europe. amexus offers comprehensive IT consulting services, including hardware procurement, network design, infrastructure management solutions. Named Bamboo Solutions’ Partner of the Year in 2008, amexus has a proven track record and sterling reputation within the SharePoint community.

To learn more about this partnership, please visit the AvePoint website at www.avepoint.eu or the amexus website at www.amexus.com

About AvePoint

Since 2001, AvePoint has been a global leader in enterprise-strength infrastructure management solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Propelled by one of the world’s largest SharePoint-exclusive development teams outside of Microsoft, AvePoint’s award-winning DocAve Software Platform delivers comprehensive and flexible infrastructure support for backup and recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving, deployment management, reporting, and compliance.

AvePoint’s pioneering technology pilots the products of OEM partners such as NetApp and IBM. With headquarters, research facilities, and engineering centers in Jersey City, NJ, and wholly owned engineering centres and sales offices in San Jose, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Houston, USA; London, UK; Melbourne, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; and Changchun, Dalian, China, AvePoint serves over 5000 enterprise customers, including many Fortune-500 companies. Winner of the Best of Tech Ed award for “Best SharePoint Product” in 2008, AvePoint is a Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA Certified Provider.

About amexus

The core competence of amexus is developing solutions revolving around SharePoint for small to large corporations in all industries and sectors. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, amexus clients know they can count on excellent knowledge and close ties with Microsoft. The 35-head team operates mainly from the headquarters in Ahaus (Germany) providing services throughout Europe, but amexus also have two satellite offices in Dormund-Schwerte and Osnabrück.

Stefan Nacke and Jörg Tomse - both engineers who had formed their own separate companies previously - partnered to start amexus in 1992. Since that time, amexus has become a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and is continuing to build on their experience as amexus approaches its 20th year.

AvePoint Media Contact:

Irina Annells - Marketing Coordinator
AvePoint
Tel: +44 208 606 3477
Email: irina.annells@avepoint.com

amexus Media Contact:

Stefan Nacke
amexus Informationstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
Tel: +49 2561 93030
Email: snacke@amexus.com

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