Leading North American Managed Services Platform Now Available to UK Solution Providers

Level Platforms invites UK solution providers to join the largest global community of MSPs serving the small and mid sized marketplace

March 28, 2007

ChannelExpo, Birmingham, UK, March 28, 2007 – LPI Level Platforms Inc. today announced the full availability of its award winning managed services platform to UK solution providers.

The dozens of UK solution providers that have already chosen Level Platforms based on word-of-mouth will now benefit from enhanced training, technical and business support as well as in-country marketing through its extensive alliance program including the recently announced MSP Partners training programs. The tens of thousands of solution providers, VARs and IT consultants that service the IT infrastructure of small and mid sized businesses (SMBs) in the UK will now have the benefit of Level Platforms award winning software, training and support to accelerate their profitable transition to managed services.

Level Platforms current and in-progress UK program enhancements include modified technical and partner development materials, updated training, appointment of Partner Development Managers with UK experience, expanded pricing in pounds and Euros and the introduction of extended support hours.

“While we have been enormously successful in North America, we understand that UK solutions providers and their end customers have their own unique requirements,” said Greg Henderson, Director of International Development with Level Platforms. “Working with our partners in the UK we are fine tuning our extensive library of training and go-to-market branded materials to enhance the transferability of our success-proven technology and training programs.”

Managed services has been sweeping the North American solution provider community. By adopting remote monitoring and management technology, solution providers can achieve significantly reduced service costs, improve customer response, increase product sales and high margin, long term recurring revenues. Level Platforms has led that transition, growing from its first sale in 2004 to become the global leader with well over 2000 solution provider Partners today.

“In a recent survey done of solution providers in the UK, managed services was identified as being in the top issues for them to focus on in 2007,” said Alison Say, Director of International Sales for CMP Group. “Yet there is also a lack of clarity in the market as to exactly what managed services are. The need for a combination of education, ease of entry and gradual adoption of managed services by solution providers specific to their market is critical to success.”

As part of Level Platforms launch, MSP Partners, an alliance of the leading global IT vendors, also announced that membership in MSP Partners is now also available to UK solution providers. MSP Partners provides comprehensive training resources for solution providers considering managed services for their small and mid sized customers. To learn more about MSP Partners visit www.msppartners.com.

Level Platforms UK launch is being held at ChannelExpo 2007, the UK’s largest reseller event in Birmingham, with Level Platforms management and partner support specialists on hand to speak to existing partners or to educate prospective partners on the Level Platforms offering. For more information, visit the Level Platform’s booth, F68 during the ChannelExpo event being held from Wed., March 28^th to Thursday, March 29^th, 2007 at the NEC in Birmingham or contact Level Platforms at www.levelplatforms.com.

About Level Platforms

Level Platforms is the leading provider of managed services software for IT solution providers servicing small and mid-sized end customers through its award winning remote monitoring and management software, Managed Workplace.

Managed Workplace provides everything a managed services provider needs to remotely monitor and manage their end customers’ IT networks through a single web based central dashboard. The dashboard presents all customer site data including integrated performance and security monitoring, availability status, real-time alerting, graphical performance reporting, trouble ticketing, and asset inventory (hardware, software, network devices, and patches) , monitoring of both local and hosted web sites as well as integrated patch management, remote control and scripting for service automation of routine tasks.

Managed Workplace allows the solution provider to maintain high customer availability at a low cost while achieving long term, high margin recurring revenues and more responsive customer service. Comprehensive managed services training and personalized business coaching, combined with simple per site subscription pricing makes it easy for any solution provider to offer high-profit, customized managed services to end customers of any size.

For more information, visit Level Platforms at www.levelplatforms.com

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Media Contacts

Carolyn Miyazaki
Level Platforms
Tel: 613-232-1000, extension 183
Fax: 613-232-0127
cmiyazaki@levelplatforms.com

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