London/Hamburg, November 5, 2008 – ePages, Europe’s leading provider of e-commerce solutions for hosting providers and medium-sized businesses, announced its partnership with Easily, one of the top web hosting providers in the UK. With ePages, Easily now offers e-shop solutions as part of their product line-up for small businesses (www.easily.co.uk). Easily is part of GroupNBT, a leading provider of domain names and internet-related services.
Easily now enables small businesses to compete successfully in today’s online marketplace with simple, effective and professional solutions. Easily and ePages jointly developed a new offering based on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model of ePages to primarily reach small and startup businesses that look for a solution where no design or programming knowledge is needed. Online shops with ePages are quickly installed and easily administrated online in the browser.
Online merchants using the EasilyShop benefit from exclusive deals on value-adds like Google Adwords to help businesses promote their shops online. In addition, they can get valuable promotion through Easily newsletters if they become one of the Easily Top 10 websites (http://easilytop10.com).
“We are very happy about ePages being our partner. We believe it is the most powerful e-commerce SaaS solution on the market and look forward to creating new success stories working together with the leading vendor of e-business software”, says Alex Shepherd, Head of Product Management for Online at GroupNBT.
“With our technology, our partners and their clients can focus on their core business instead of worrying about technical issues. We are proud to accompany Easily on their way to entering the UK e-commerce market“, adds Wilfried Beeck, CEO of ePages.
Easily.co.uk is a top UK provider of cost-effective web hosting and domain name services. Easily was formed in 1999 to provide UK businesses and consumers with reliable services at affordable prices, backed by first-class customer support. Easily is now part of London-listed Group NBT plc.
With over 50,000 customers, ePages is one of the world’s leading providers of e-commerce solutions and business websites. Using the ePages platform, customers of hosting providers can create professional websites and online shops quickly and cost-effectively without the need for programming knowledge and complicated software installations.
International hosting providers and telecom companies such as British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Lycos, Strato, Host Europe, Amen and Arsys offer preconfigured web shops and business websites using the ePages Hosting Edition.
With numerous technology partners, ePages offers seamless integration with the most important Internet portals, search engines, marketing platforms, payment providers and ERP providers.
A worldwide partner network provides individually matched solutions based on the ePages Merchant Edition for medium-sized and international companies. Enterprise customers include Bargain Crazy, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Housemakers, Lindt, Skoda and Weight Watchers.
ePages Head Office is in Hamburg with subsidiaries in Jena, San Francisco, London and Barcelona.www.epages.com
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