HostingCon 2010 was an excellent platform for many companies to announce the best solutions they have. Parallels (www.parallels.com) has also introduced Parallels Automation 5.0 (PA5.0) in the HostingCon. The announcement was made by head of software developer, Serguei Belousov.

With Parallels Automation 5.0, users now have luxury to enjoy one hundred novel features which include help in providing Microsoft Exchange 2010, combined interactions with Office Communications Server 2001 R2 services, superior cloud syndication competence, and client on-premise directory incorporation.

“With the competition to attract small businesses to the cloud heating up, service providers need to deliver profitable cloud services to market at an ever-increasing pace,” said Beloussov, who is chief executive officer and chairman of Parallels. “Adding Microsoft Exchange 2010, Office Communications Server and customer directory integration to Parallels Automation 5.0 allows service providers to increase average revenue per user, reduce operational costs and attract new customers.”

Beloussov cited that communication and coordination facilities would help us to attain the existing customers for good. “Service providers can now be amongst the first to offer their customers Hosted Exchange 2010 email,” he added. “It also enables them to increase ARPU and decrease churn by cross-selling the latest Microsoft unified communications services.”

Parallels Automation 5.0 is excellent software with enhanced development in Open-Xchange-based services potential which provides an excellent support to service providers to provide business class email to its customers and thus increase their income tremendously.

In a statement from Chris Damvakaris who is a Vice President in sales and business development at Unified Communication Provider Apptix, he explained the effectiveness of Parallels Automation 5.0. According to him, with this platform Apptix now can provide better solutions to customers to meet their communication and coordination requirements.  “On top of being able to offer Hosted Exchange, Hosted SharePoint, and VoIP, Parallels Automation allows us to roll out Web conferencing, secure IM, online backup, DNS hosting and website hosting,” Damvakaris added.

One another great feature of PA5.0 is Parallels Business Automation 5.0 (PBA) which posses PCI Payment Applications DSS certification. This feature is exceptional for service providers in order to abridge PCI audits for PCI DSS conformity.