SharePoint Hosting Resellers like the concept whereby they can purchase SharePoint services from a provider and offer the service to their customers under their own brand, without buying the hardware or worrying about the datacenter or managing the SharePoint server. Anyone with minimal IT knowledge and a good business sense can resell hosted SharePoint, a popular business application.

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Resellers of Microsoft SharePoint hosting can now offer Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) that allows their customers to connect people, processes and information. SharePoint Hosting Resellers can target organizations who want to extend business processes throughout. Resellers can point to the value added by features of hosted SharePoint such as contact lists, task lists, document libraries, calendars, blogs, wikis, and announcements. This portal server allows one point of access to several systems and acts as a virtual meeting place for the easy exchange of information for an organization which has bought the SharePoint hosting services from the reseller. SharePoint services can be configured to customized specifications, with systems such as project management and business intelligence being easily managed through SharePoint 3.0.

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WSS 3.0 takes file storage to a whole new level, and it enables both individuals and teams to increase productivity and allows you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. The Microsoft SharePoint hosting environment is specifically designed to allow application development, flexible deployment and easily manageable administration. SharePoint Resellers of hosting services also get from their providers a control panel using which they can manage their users. Under private or white label reselling of SharePoint Services, users of the reseller will have access to control panel which is branded with SharePoint reseller’s own brand.

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SharePoint Hosting reselling under your own brand could be very profitable. The ability of resellers to private label or white label SharePoint hosting is therefore quite important. Clients want to be in a position where their data is stored safely and securely, and managed by an outsourcing company. Offering them a SharePoint hosting service which is able to manage, store and access data throughout the entire organization from one central location, allows users access to a consistent mechanism through which they can search for relevant information.

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AUTHOR:

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Adrian Gates (Adrian@apps4rent.com) is a Business Manager with Apps4Rent (http://www.apps4rent.com/reseller.html); which offers premium Reselling Hosted Exchange, SharePoint services and Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services