LTECH ANNOUNCES NEW FEATURES IN LTECH POWER PANEL FOR GOOGLE APPS, AN ENTERPRISE CLOUD ENABLEMENT PRODUCT

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:07:39 +0000

Contact Journal and user onboarding and offboarding templates among new features that provide distributed management and improved workflow within Google Apps

BRIDGEWATER, NJ - Nov. 16, 2009 - LTech (www.ltech.com), a leader in enterprise cloud computing products and services, today introduced the latest version of its LTech Power Panel for Google Apps (Power Panel). Power Panel is a Google Apps add-on product that provides IT and end-users with features that extend the power of the Google Apps platform. Power Panel works with the Premier, Education and Partner editions of Google Apps for organizations of all sizes. Building on the user lifecycle management features in its Sept. 2009 release, new features of Power Panel include Contact Journal, Quick Links, new features for IT administrators, and an integration framework for CRM and enterprise data.

"As Google Apps reach further into the enterprise, IT managers and end-users need tools that enable the same type of management and workflow capabilities they experienced before moving to the cloud," said Ed Laczynski, founder and CTO of LTech. "Our customers have driven our product roadmap for features like Contact Journal and Shared Contact Search, and we are happy to announce the availability of these new features today."

Power Panel is deployed on Google App Engine™, and is secured within a customers' Google Apps domain. All features and functions are hosted directly in Google's cloud.
New features in Power Panel include:

•    New User Gadget - End-users can access the features of Power Panel directly from a Google Gadget within GMail.
•    Contact Journal - Provides users with a 360-degree view of their contacts and relationships inside and outside of the organization. Using Contact Journal, information on upcoming appointments, shared documents, group memberships, common contacts and social network profiles are available directly within the GMail web client. Contact Journal also serves as an integration point for CRM data from vendors like SalesForce™.
•    QuickLinks for Information Workers - Power Panel allows executives, managers and IT to distribute links to commonly used workflow applications, forms and documents directly to end-users within the GMail browser canvas via a centrally controlled gadget.
•    Shared Contact Search - Provides end-users direct access to add, edit and search organization-wide contacts.
•    New Templates and Macros for IT - Includes user lifecycle management tools, including onboarding and offboarding templates, and macros for group-wide password reset, IMAP and POP enablement.
•    Power Panel Integration Framework - Based on its extensive work with large enterprise customers, LTech has added new integration capabilities to promote improved workflow, information sharing and collaboration. Using Power Panel as an integration point, customers can tie data from CRM and help desk systems to extend the reach and interoperability of the Google Apps platform. Power Panel supports the Google App Engine, Java and Google Web Toolkit (GWT) SDK's for customization.

Pricing and Availability
LTech Power Panel for Google Apps is available immediately and pricing starts at $3 per user, per year. Existing and new customers will enjoy all of the above features for the same price. For more information please visit http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/power-panel.

About LTech
Founded in 2001, LTech is a leading provider of products and services for enterprise cloud computing. Its cloud integration products include LTech Google Docs Backup, LTech Power Panel for Google Apps and LTech Single Sign-on for Google Apps. LTech also helps enterprises leverage the cloud by providing implementation, configuration and support services. As an early Google Enterprise Partner™, LTech has successfully completed dozens of Google Apps deployments and helped develop best-practices for adopting and successfully scaling cloud computing programs for large-scale customers in business, government and education. LTech merged with The Matlen Silver Group Inc., one of the leading IT solutions companies for the Fortune 500, in January of 2009. For more information on LTech and its services please visit www.ltech.com, or call 866-583-2473.
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LTECH LAUNCHES POWER PANEL FOR GOOGLE APPS

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:44:43 +0000

New Power Panel for Google Apps provides advanced management capabilities for enhanced security, provisioning and administration of Google Apps deployments

Bridgewater, NJ - September 9, 2009 - LTech (www.ltech.com), a leading provider of products and services focused on connecting business to the cloud, today announced the release of Power Panel for Google AppsTM, a new product that provides advanced IT management and end-user capabilities for Google Apps. LTech Power Panel for Google Apps is hosted on the Google App EngineTM cloud platform and installs directly into an organization's Google Apps domain, providing seamless integration into the Google Apps administrator dashboard without any additional server or software requirements. Licensing information for LTech Power Panel for Google Apps is available at (http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/power-panel).

"I recommend LTech Power Panel for Google Apps. The product provides our company with key functions for our day-to-day IT operations, and has helped us ensure a successful transition to Google Apps," says Grant Galimi, Director of Information Technology at William Pitt Sotheby's International.

The product comes standard with two modules, Shared Contacts and Users and Groups. The Shared Contacts module provides an easy to use interface for the management of organization-wide contacts such as clients, business partners, and vendors. The Users and Groups module allows help desk and IT support personnel to manage users, passwords, and profiles using a delegated security model. Power Panel also provides helpful macros and scripts to help make performing common tasks easier, such as managing a user's group memberships or setting a user's vacation message.

"We are excited to see LTech extend Google Apps and bring this additional functionality to administrators," said Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise. "By delivering Power Panel on App Engine, integrated with the Google Apps control panel, customers get a familiar experience to help them manage Google Apps more effectively."

"The design and development of Power Panel for Google Apps was driven by the needs of our Google Apps customers. Power Panel extends the Google Apps platform by providing enhanced features to IT support teams that manage Google Apps every day," said Ed Laczynski, founder and CTO of LTech. "For example, with Power Panel, it is much easier for an administrator to configure a user's email forward settings, requiring less effort from the end user. Our goal is to make the day-to-day administration and use of Google Apps easier."

Features of LTech's Power Panel for Google Apps include:

Delegation of common administrator functions to IT support and help desk staff, such as suspending a user and resetting lost passwords
Change user email settings such as forwarding and vacation messages
Full Shared Contacts administration
Extended provisioning for user and group management
Macros and scripts providing global account features such as forcing password reset for all users
Extensible platform for new modules and customizations by LTech and other Google Apps solution providers
Management of user nicknames
Full logging to the Google App Engine Dashboard

LTech's Power Panel for Google Apps requires Google Apps Premier or Education Edition with administrator access and the Google App Engine SDK for deployment of the application. A version of Power Panel for Google Apps is available for ISPs, compatible with Google Apps Partner Edition, providing integrated customer account management and provisioning. Pricing starts at $3 per user, per year for Google Apps Premier customers. For more information please visit (http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/power-panel).

About LTech
LTech is a leading provider of products and services focused on connecting business to the cloud. LTech's cloud integration products include Google Docs Backup, Single Sign On and LTech's Power Panel for Google Apps. LTech also helps enterprises leverage the cloud by providing products, implementation, configuration, and support services. As an early Google Enterprise PartnerTM founded in 2001, LTech has successfully completed dozens of Google Apps deployments spanning hundreds of thousands of users. For more information on LTech and its services please visit www.ltech.com, or call 866-583-2473.

Google, Google Apps, Google App Engine and Google Enterprise Partner are trademarks of Google Inc.

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Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

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LTECH ANNOUNCES NEW FEATURES IN LTECH POWER PANEL FOR GOOGLE APPS, AN ENTERPRISE CLOUD ENABLEMENT PRODUCT

LTECH LAUNCHES POWER PANEL FOR GOOGLE APPS