As the ISP market matures, price erosion starts to affect Internet access, which by now is accepted as standard. That is why many ISPs are looking for opportunities to save costs and find additional revenue sources. Siennax has a solution for both.

Many ISPs bundle standard eMail functionality with Internet access. But why bother to maintain your own eMail infrastructure when, at a minimal cost, you can make use of the large scale and thus highly reliable eMail platform offered by Siennax. This basic eMail is based on Open Source technology, namely Linux, qmail and openLDAP. At present, Siennax serves more than one million eMail accounts from this platform. Naturally, you can also use eMail to generate additional income by offering - at a surcharge - a range of options over and above the standard eMail service. Examples include web mail, powerful anti-spam and virus scanning capability and extra storage capacity. Siennax not only offers you the means of offering these options to your consumers, but also has the tools to set and bill the options per individual user.

Besides the very basic eMail version, Siennax also offers the extensive features of Microsoft Exchange. Hosted Exchange 2000 provides the complete functionality you have come to expect, including mail, diary, group planning & meetings, task lists, discussion forums and document management. Your employees have continuous insight into and access to their diaries, while being able to receive and send mails. Protocols MAPI, POP, SMTP, IMAP, http, WAP and/or GPRS give access to clients such as Outlook, Internet browsers, mobile phones and PDA. Specially developed web-based administration tools enable you to carry out management tasks independently. This means you can work without the intervention of Siennax to generate and remove users and modify the size of a mailbox.

There are, however, more ways to safeguard an ISPs future and generate extra revenues. With analysts predicting that ISPs will increasingly have to act like communities, providers can market additional services to get more revenue from existing users and differentiate themselves from other ISPs. Given the large number of users the typical ISP has, even a small monthly sum per user adds up very quickly. Siennax offers you the opportunity to assume the role of Software Service Provider. Software distribution is changing rapidly and ISPs can become a major power in distribution by offering their subscribers popular software on the basis of a usage service model. Siennax has teamed up with Winstore in developing a cut-and-dried solution called Provide-X. Billing, provisioning and Post License Control is taken care of with Provide-X on your back-end. All you have to do is make the information and link available on your website. For more information, visit www.provide-x.nl.