ImmersiFind Expands Infop?ginas Local Search Business in Dominican Republic

Lansdowne, VA and San Juan, PR (PRWEB) October 04, 2011

ImmersiFind, North America?s leading local search platform provider of "world class" web, mobile and social marketing solutions for small businesses announced today that Infop?ginas, one of the largest media companies in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, has selected the Immersifind 2.0 local search platform for its multi-media directory expansion into the Dominican Republic.

"We were looking for new and innovative ways of offering businesses compelling multi-media advertising solutions to reach consumers via internet, mobile and social channels," said Paul Moroney, President of Infop?ginas. "Immersifind provides the right mediums for delivering our community and advertiser information. We are sensitive to the needs of our consumers and advertisers and want to offer them a variety of ways to connect in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Most importantly, ImmersiFind's flexible model allowed us to outsource some production to the organization's staff and gain new technology solutions without any capital investment and this was a major selling point."

The new Internet site http://dr.InfoPaginas.com delivers a robust bilingual, online directory search application that provides easy access to detailed, business listings and relevant search results in a list or map view. The site incorporates advanced search technology, free text messages to mobile phones, mobile maps, direct SMS search, advanced WAP and iPhone mobile browsing capabilities.

?ImmersiFind is pleased that Infop?ginas is extending its business relationship with us,? stated Tom Lewis, president at ImmersiFind. ?Our digital media suite of advertising solutions is ideal for publishers, like Infop?ginas, who are expanding their business on the Internet,? he added.

About Infop?ginas

Infop?ginas.com is the fastest growing Internet local search platform covering Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Accurate, rich and relevant local content sets Infop?ginas.com's unique search engine apart from other online "directories". Infop?ginas.com's results are enhanced with advanced features including photos, videos and other immersive media. For more information visit the company?s web site http://www.infopaginas.com. To discuss media advertising plans, please contact Dan Broze, sales director for the Dominican Republic-Infop?ginas. Dan can be reached by email at: dan.broze(at)infopaginas(dot)com

About ImmersiFind

ImmersiFind partners with media publishers to host Internet directories and local search software applications via web, mobile and social media. Our comprehensive advertising solutions enable small businesses to connect with consumers who shop online from their homes, offices or ?on the go? using computers, tablet PCs and mobile devices. The company?s core product offering is ImmersiFind 2.0 a white label technology platform encompassing Internet Directories, Web Sites, Mobile Sites, Social Sites, Videos, Daily Deals and Reputation Management. For more information visit the company?s web site http://www.immersifind.com.

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Cheap Computing and Open Source Movement Reduce Software Costs By 90% For Small Business.

(PRWEB) January 5, 2005

Serving Small Business? need for dynamic data-driven applications hasn?t been an attractive financial proposition for traditional enterprise software firms who rely on larger customers to drive sales and profitability. Where medium and enterprise software companies may have budgets in the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars, the typical small business software budget may be as little as a few thousand dollars per year. With small budgets yet big expectations, it?s no wonder this segment of the business population has felt ignored. This is likely to soon change, however, as the evolution of Open Source business software combines with ever cheaper and more abundant computing power to enable even the smallest businesses to digitize key parts of their operations.

In the early days of the PC, increases in computing power, along with concurrent decreases in computing costs, enabled ever wider adoption of desktop applications. The widespread availability of the desktop PC created a vast market for applications such as word-processors and spreadsheets which were dependent on Microsoft DOS and eventually Windows. A similar tipping point occurred in the mid-1990?s when decreasing internet connectivity costs and relatively inexpensive servers combined with a burgeoning volume of offerings on the Web to create the Internet boom.

Today, another wave is taking hold as thousands of small businesses adopt Open Source applications to run their business. Companies like Sparco Technologies, which uses Open Source CRM to manage its sales program, can get nearly the same functionality of commercial software without expensive licensing and consulting costs. Sparco, a San Antonio, Tx based wholesaler of Wireless Technologies to over 30,000 distributors around the world, uses the popular open source application SugarSales to monitor its sales pipeline and measure the effectiveness of its telemarketing efforts. ?We needed a solution that would allow us to quickly manage and track information throughout our entire sales and marketing process? said Dave Dullnig, President of Sparco. ?We looked at eCRM from Salesforce.com and NetSuite. At the end of the day it boiled down to cost. With SugarSales it takes a little more effort to generate the custom reports we need than it might with a commercial solution, but our annual costs are more than ten times lower than the typical eCRM provider. We use a Managed Application Service Provider, bNitro.com, and pay a flat fee of $ 39.95 per month whether we have one or 20 users. bNitro implemented the application for us, manages upgrades, and backs up and protects our data. We access our CRM system via the web. It?s simple, cheap, and reliable.?

Managed Application Service Providers like bNitro.com are an essential force in driving the new wave of Open Source adoption. While the capabilities of Open Source business applications are growing ever closer to their commercial counterparts, most small businesses do not have the technical expertise needed to implement and maintain them. To get web-based software like SugarSales up and running still requires some technical savvy. Managed Providers eliminate the complexity, letting small business clients simply log-on and use the software through a web browser. Since most small businesses don?t need the capacity of a full server, Managed Providers generate economies of scale, via server sharing, that drive the cost to deliver Open Source applications down to a small fraction of their commercial counterparts. ?We?re not burdened with the Microsoft or Oracle taxes that companies like SalesForce.com and Seibel are. We can run our web servers and applications entirely on Open Source software and thus our costs are really limited to hardware and network connectivity, which is abundant and inexpensive these days? says Jeff Minich, VP of Business Development for bNitro.com. ?At these low price points, widespread adoption of these Open Source applications becomes inevitable in my view.?

In the summer of 2004, bNitro.com launched a test of its Managed Application Services for Open Source CRM, Online Project Management, and eLearning. ?We are driven by our customers, and they had been asking for these solutions. After five years of delivering financial applications via the web to over 20,000 websites, we knew the process; we just didn?t want to take on the risk of building new software from scratch? said Minich. ?After evaluating and adopting Open Source versions of CRM and Project Management for our own internal use, they seemed like an obvious solution for our customers.? With its test period successfully completed, the company hopes to attract thousands of small businesses that have felt left out by traditional software providers. ?We?re ready for the masses so to speak? says Minich. ?There are millions of small businesses that, once they figure out what they can do with Open Source software and how cheaply they can do it, will want to integrate these technologies into their day-to-day operations.?

About bNitro.com

bNitro.com is pioneering the delivery of on-demand Open Source business applications. bNitro.com was founded in 1999 to help small and medium sized businesses improve their competitive capabilities through the use of web-based technologies. Since then, over 20,000 businesses have relied on bNitro for managed application services, web consulting, and web design. bNitro.com is owned by iRadeon Group Inc. which is headquartered in Roseville, CA, just outside of Sacramento. For more information please visit http://www.bnitro.com, or call 1-866-247-3211.

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Open Source Business Software One of Best Kept Secrets On the Web

(PRWEB) April 10, 2005

What if Seibel, Microsoft, and SalesForce.com?s next big CRM software competitor was a freely licensed Open Source application that any business could download and use from the web? How would SAP fair if the sales battle is no longer against rival Oracle but a highly adaptive, fast growing?and free-- software application whose development is powered by hundreds of communitarian-minded software geeks. If Linux?s introduction in 1994 was a shot across the bow of Microsoft and other enterprise software companies, today?s new breed of Open Source applications built on top of Linux may be the shot that ultimately sinks their ships.

Linux-based applications have arrived. While it?s not well known outside of the hardcore developer community, the website Sourceforge.net should be a big eye-opener for anyone who thinks the status quo is to remain much longer in the software industry. Visitors to SourceForge.net can freely download over 90,000 Open Source software applications in everything from Accounting, CRM, and Enterprise Resource Planning to Desktop Anti-Virus Protection and Firewall Security. It?s a remarkable array of software which demonstrates the growing power of the Open Source community.

Open Source software is particularly increasing in popularity with Small Business users. Applications like SugarCRM(TM), which offers Customer Relationship Management features comparable to its commercial counterparts, are favorites with Small Business who want simplicity and cost savings. Since its introduction a year ago, SugarCRM has been downloaded over 100,000 times. Tech savvy users can have SugarCRM up and running on their own server in a matter of minutes. Businesses without Linux experience or their own servers can turn to Managed Application Service providers like bNitro.com, which deploys and manages Open Source applications via the web, and get SugarCRM for a flat monthly fee. bNitro?s Standard Plan provides up to 24 users with web access to SugarCRM for just $ 39.95 per month and a modest setup fee. At less than $ 2 per month per user, managed Open Source CRM offers a substantial savings over commercial on-demand CRM which often starts at $ 65 per month per user for basic service.

Managed Application Service Providers like bNitro.com are an essential force in driving the new wave of Open Source adoption. Managed Providers generate economies of scale, via server sharing, that drive the cost to deliver Open Source applications down to a small fraction of their commercial counterparts. ?We?re not burdened with the Microsoft or Oracle taxes that companies like SalesForce.com and Seibel are. We can run our web servers and applications entirely on Open Source software and thus our hard costs are really limited to hardware and network connectivity, which is abundant and inexpensive these days? says Jeff Minich, VP of Business Development for bNitro.com. ?At these price points, widespread adoption of these Open Source applications becomes inevitable in my view? says Minich. ?There are millions of small businesses who, once they figure out what they can do with Open Source software and how cheaply they can do it, will want to integrate these technologies into their day-to-day operations.?

About bNitro.com

bNitro.com is pioneering the delivery of on-demand Open Source business applications. bNitro.com was founded in 1999 to help small and medium sized businesses improve their competitive capabilities through the use of web-based technologies. Since then, over 20,000 businesses have relied on bNitro for managed application services, web consulting, and web design. bNitro.com is owned by iRadeon Group Inc. which is headquartered in Roseville, CA, near Sacramento. For more information please visit http://www.bnitro.com, or call 1-866-247-3211.

About SourceForge.net

SourceForge.net is part of OSDN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VA Software Corp. (NasdaqNM:LNUX - News). OSDN is the largest independent, community-driven media network for IT and developers on the Web and publishes two world-renowned networks of Web sites: the OSDN technology network, which attracts every level of IT decision maker, influencer and buyer; and the MediaBuilder network, which reaches graphics and Web designers worldwide. OSDN sites include Slashdot.org, SourceForge.net, ITManagersJournal.com, DevChannels.org, Linux.com, ThinkGeek.com, and freshmeat.net. Monthly traffic on the network has recently reached an all time high of almost 250 million page views and 16 million unique visitors*.

SugarCRM is a trademark of SugarCRM Inc. in the United States, the European Union and other countries.

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iRadeon Launches Affiliate Program for On-Demand Open Source Business Applications

Roseville, CA (PRWEB) October 9, 2005

iRadeon announced the launch of its Referral Partner Program, an affiliate program designed to reward partners for referring clients to iRadeon's on-demand services. iRadeon allows businesses to take advantage of the enormous cost-savings and power of open source software while eliminating the complexity associated with deploying, managing and securing web-based application infrastructure. With plans starting at $ 45 per month for 5 users, the company?s on demand platform brings browser-based open source CRM, Project Management, and eLearning software to the SMB market for a fraction of the cost of proprietary on-demand offerings from companies like Oracle and Salesforce.

iRadeon's Referral Program is targeted towards partners who provide web-based business services to their clients. The company?s affiliate program will reward partners with payouts of up to $ 250 for new orders of iRadeon?s secure application hosting plans. With five service levels available, there are a range of plans to meet the needs of most small-to-medium businesses.

"iRadeon?s on demand services for open source customer relationship management, project management and learning management software offers businesses a reliable and affordable alternative to high-priced proprietary solutions." said Melody Gardner, vice president of Sales and Marketing, iRadeon. "iRadeon's on-demand services give organizations the ability to simply turn on these technologies securely and in near real time, without costly consulting, hardware or licensing. We are excited to launch this affiliate program because it will enable our partners share in our success."

Program Details

The iRadeon Referral Partner Program will pay affiliates for each referred order. Partner payouts vary from $ 100 to $ 250 based upon the type of service plan ordered. Managed by DirectTrack, iRadeon's program will offer trusted third-party tracking tools and enable users to view real-time performance statistics. Web managers interested in signing up for the iRadeon Referral Partner Program can join at no cost at

http://www.iradeon.directtrack.com.

About iRadeon (http://www.iradeon.com)

Founded in 1999, iRadeon provides on-demand services for open source business software that deliver the benefits of enterprise applications such as CRM for a small fraction of the cost of proprietary vendors. With iRadeon's on-demand services, companies can deploy open source business software via the Web without costly hardware investments, consulting or license fees. iRadeon is a privately-held company headquartered in Roseville, California.

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