ROSEASP TAKES GP TO THE CLOUDS
RoseASP, owned by Linda Rose whose reselling organization was a finalist for Dynamics GP Partner of the Year, has taken Dynamics GP and made it available on-demand via a product called myGPcloud. According to Rose, her company is the first reseller to producing Dynamics on-demand, as opposed to making it available via hosting. The product also allows non-Dynamics Microsoft VARs to sell GP to their customer bases (that ought to make everyone in the overpopulated reseller channel really happy.)
The company bills its product as providing all GP features, along with "automated on-line provisioning, training videos and guides, template set up and technical support, as well as available integration to business portal, SharePoint and customer management systems. Prospects can try Dynamics for a 30-day free trial. Rose says a survey of 1,600 Dynamics partners by RoseASP found that 80 percent are competing with hosted or SaaS products. It's as though the channel were telling Microsoft "take us to the cloud please." The RoseASP offering has the usual subscription pricing for a SaaS product. It is priced at $165 per month under the Business Essentials list and $195 for Advanced Management.
