Exponential Growth Sees AvePoint Sales Rise 110 Percent in Fiscal Year 2010

Online, June 7, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Today, AvePoint, the world's largest provider of infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, announced a sales growth of 110 percent in Europe in 2010, as well as doubling of its customer base and operation. This exponential growth follows the release of SharePoint 2010 and signifies increased adoption of collaborative tools that allow businesses to protect, manage, and govern corporate data across disparate sites. AvePoint has focussed exclusively on the SharePoint market since its inception in 2001 allowing for unrivalled experience in this space and this expertise, alongside a dedicated global SharePoint R&D facility consisting of more than 500 personnel - the largest team outside of Microsoft.

With more than 8,000 customers worldwide today, AvePoint's momentum has been driven by migration and ongoing maintenance around SharePoint, which has become increasingly popular as businesses look to globalise and support corporate data between disparate sites and across-borders. With specialist channel partners at the core of its go-to-market strategy in the UK, AvePoint has teamed up with companies including Black Marble, Company Net, Raona, Content & Code and Trustmarque to offer more than 30 independently deployable modules to customers of all sizes and across vertical markets, namely financial services, the public sector, and pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries.

"Like AvePoint, Black Marble has attained a Gold Competency for Portals and Collaboration - an honour that Microsoft extends only to partners that deliver best-in-class capabilities to customers," commented Linda Hogg, Microsoft Alliance Manager, Black Marble. "The expertise and specialist technology that we are able to offer by working with AvePoint is a huge benefit for our end-users who want fast and effective solutions which provide ROI and optimise the efficiency of SharePoint."

Dena Lawson, SharePoint Project Manager, Kingston University, added that, "Taking away the complexity around SharePoint 2010 was crucial in reducing the resources needed to assist the migration process, as well as ongoing management. AvePoint simply took away the complexity of SharePoint 2010, allowing us to shift the focus from technical to content management. The result here is that administrators are able to concentrate their efforts on improving the end-user experience."

"AvePoint's growth in 2010 results from unrivalled experience and product expertise. A sales growth of 110 percent in Europe in just one year is outstanding, and signifies real momentum in SharePoint adoption," said Tianyi (TJ) Jiang, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, AvePoint. "For us, the fact that partners and customers alike are turning to AvePoint as a trusted partner to address key pain points associated with SharePoint lifecycle management, including data protection, management, storage optimisation, and compliance, is a huge compliment to us, and an indicator of further growth potential globally in 2011."

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