Atlanta, GA -- Northridge, the Premier Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the Southeast focused on Business Intelligence (PerformancePoint), Corporate Portals (SharePoint), Custom Development (.NET), and IT Infrastructure, is pleased to announce the successful development and deployment of a Microsoft Outlook email client configuration application for Cbeyond. Cbeyond, which is headquartered in Atlanta and has offices in 12 US markets, is a leading voice and broadband Internet provider focused exclusively on small businesses.
Cbeyond provides its customers with an array value-added services and solutions that enhance its core voice and data products. A recent addition to Cbeyond’s value-added solution offering is a hosted Microsoft Exchange service which customers can access via a Microsoft email client, such as Outlook. Cbeyond partnered with Northridge to design and develop an installation and configuration solution that could be distributed to Cbeyond customers to simplify the Outlook configuration process. Upon gathering detailed requirements from Cbeyond team, Northridge developed the custom Microsoft .NET solution leveraging web services to enable the installation and configuration in a single pass without requiring Cbeyond’s customers to contact Cbeyond technical support. The solution allows Cbeyond to seamlessly deploy its hosted Exchange offering to customers in each of its markets.
Upon completion of the core solution development, the Northridge Quality Assurance team fully tested the solution by leveraging its virtualized testing environment in which various operating system configurations can be tested in an efficient and cost-effective manner. The QA process ensured that the solution was fully functional on all supported operating systems and versions of Outlook including Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Windows Live Mail. Northridge Interactive, the interactive marketing and design division of Northridge, delivered the user interface design for the custom solution consistent with Cbeyond’s existing branding standards and guidelines.
”We are pleased to have delivered the custom solution within the timeline and under budget for Cbeyond,” commented Lance Cannon, Senior Project Manager at Northridge. “This project highlights the custom software development, quality assurance, and marketing design services at Northridge. Most importantly, the custom solution is a success for Cbeyond and its customers by providing more immediately available services at a lower cost with increased customer satisfaction. We are proud to be a small part of the Cbeyond success story.”
About Cbeyond
Cbeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of voice, mobile and broadband services to small businesses. Cbeyond offers core communications services such as local and long-distance voice, mobile and broadband Internet access along with enhanced applications, including voicemail, email, Web hosting, data backup, file-sharing, VPN and more. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network.
About Northridge Systems
Northridge Systems enables enterprise excellence through Collaboration, Productivity and Business Insight solutions. By combining pragmatic business consulting, advanced technology services, and proven delivery methodologies, Northridge delivers measurable long-term results for clients throughout North America. A nationally recognized award-winning firm, Northridge was founded in 1999 and is a Microsoft Managed Partner and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
Northridge clients range from well-established firms to Global 2000 companies including industry leaders such as Acuity Brands, Allstate, Atlanta Gas Light, Autotrader.com, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Goodwill Industries, Microsoft, Newell Rubbermaid, Time Warner Cable, Verizon Wireless, The Coca-Cola Company, and W.C. Bradley.
In assisting clients to reach their business goals, Northridge leverages leading-edge Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS), PerformancePoint Services, FAST Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP), Office Communications Server (OCS), SQL Server, .NET Framework, System Center, Exchange, Hyper-V and Windows Server.
Northridge Systems (www.northridgesystems.com) is a division of Northridge.
For more information regarding this press release, you may contact Monica Yano via email at myano@northridge.com.