SkyKick Enhances Cloud Backup Suite for Office 365

SkyKick, Inc. announced enhancements to its Cloud Backup Suite for Office 365.

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The enhancements extend cloud backup data protection to Microsoft Office 365 Groups and Teams5, enabling partners to deliver added value to customers seeking Office 365 data protection.

“Microsoft Groups and Teams is growing rapidly and was one of the most requested backup features from our global partner base,” said Chris Rayner, VP, product management, SkyKick. “We’re thrilled to deliver this additional value to our partners, and continue to accelerate our momentum in enabling partners to protect customer data across the entire Office 365 tenant.“

The Groups and Teams upgrade to Cloud Backup Suite for Office 365 provides partners greater product completeness and flexibility. It enables partners to browse and select specific Groups to backup, search and restore conversations, calendar, files, and notebook, and choose from a range of data retention periods. In addition to these enhancements, the company is releasing support for point-in-time restore for Exchange and OneDrive for Business. Together, these enhancements further distinguish Cloud Backup Suite as a technically complete and partner-centric data protection solutions for Office 365. Groups and Teams is included in Cloud Backup Suite for Office 365 and available at no additional cost for the firm’s partners with active ‘full backup‘ subscriptions (Exchange and SharePoint/OneDrive).

“As a progressive MSP, it is critical that we protect customer data in new collaboration scenarios like Groups and Teams. The fact that SkyKick is oe of the first to offer a robust backup solution for Groups and Teams demonstrates their commitment to partner success,” said Ryan Chernick, president, CCCP, Wisconsin-based partner. “Leading with a comprehensive, integrated solution like SkyKick’s gives us a competitive advantage while enhancing customer satisfaction.“

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The company is also announcing upgrades to Syndication, which thousands of partners are using to incorporate the firm’s Migration and Backup directly into their websites or e-commerce buy-flow with simply a few lines of code. The upgrades include new ways for partners to add custom branding to the company’s Cloud Backup apps on their own websites, including modifying favicons, creating custom URLs or domains and providing customized support details. The company is also releasing a new Cloud Backup self-service search and restore capability to give partners new options for operational service delivery. Partners who choose to grant customers self-service access can incorporate this new experience in their websites, enabling their customers to directly initiate data search and restore. These upgrades are free for existing Syndication customers.

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“We welcome SkyKick’s approach to syndication. It will help partners simplify their operational burden while still creating a deeper brand connection with their customers,” said Vegard Aspnes, SaaS product manager, Dustin Group, European partner.

“With our recent $40 million funding announcement, we reiterated our commitment to our 20,000 partners and the broader partner ecosystem,” said Todd Schwartz, co-founder and co-CEO, SkyKick. “We’re relentlessly innovating across our cloud management platform to provide partners with more ways to package and sell cloud services, improve their operational efficiency, enhance their customer experience, and ultimately transform their business for the future.“

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These enhancements extend the company’s cloud management platform, and complement the SkyKick Migration Suite which was the top-rated solution in a recent survey of MSPs by research firm AMI-Partners, Inc. With partners increasingly packaging and bundling cloud services, the company”s unified cloud management platform provides integrated applications to help IT solution providers build more successful cloud businesses. The Migration Suite allows IT consultants, system integrators, MSPs, value-added resellers and other IT partners to automate an entire Office 365 migration project from initial sales to project completion. The company‘s Cloud Backup Suite provides cloud-to-cloud backup, unlimited storage and one-click restore of lost Office 365 data.

Cloud Backup Suite for Office 365 is available. The company will be demonstrating the enhancements at the Microsoft Inspire Conference July 15 to 19 in Las Vegas, NV.