Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 14, 2010 — Renovatix Solutions, the leader in providing enterprise branded marketplaces of SaaS (software as a service) applications to SMB customers, and RAZR Marketing, a marketing services agency focused on strategy, announced today a distribution partnership which will allow RAZR to offer this leading edge capability alongside its own suite of solutions for leading financial services, insurance and enterprise clients.

Utilizing Renovatix capability, based on the Etelos Platform Suite for SaaS Distribution, RAZR is now offering RAZR BizApps, a platform of leading SaaS based solutions to SMBs of enterprise customers. Increasingly, more enterprises want to provide these services to their customers. RAZR BizApps enables them to brand their own solution with little to no technology integration while providing immediate incremental value to their most trusted and profitable SMB relationships.

“RAZR has proven to be a thought leader in loyalty marketing and continues to advance technology innovation as a means to quantify measurable results tied to loyalty programs,” said J. Scott Robinson, General Manager, Renovatix Solutions. “BizApps addresses a growing need of their customers to capitalize on both the paradigm shift taking place of SaaS distribution of software applications, as well as providing their customers a solution to better engage and retain their most valued customers.”

“This partnership allows us to offer solutions to our clients that they can use to expand their business and further their relationships with their own customers. We’re very excited to be working with Renovatix and look forward to the opportunities this partnership will foster,” said Paul Kelzer, RAZR’s vice president of product and operations.

The RAZR BizApps solution is available to clients starting immediately.

About Renovatix Solutions, LLC
Renovatix Solutions provides that “missing link” between leading enterprise companies and user communities whose SMB’s rely on them to provide expertise and business critical resources. Through our private label platform, we deliver an enterprise branded marketplace of world-class SaaS applications for virtually everything a SMB needs to start, or manage their business. For more information about Renovatix, please visit www.renovatixsolutions.com. MYSMBSTORE™ and Renovatix Solutions™ are trademarks of Renovatix Solutions, LLC.

About RAZR
RAZR Marketing, a marketing services agency focused on strategy, was established in 2005 with the core differentiator of creating sustainable behavior change through the application of proven marketing practice. RAZR provides a variety of marketing services to a broad array of clients, ranging from those in the financial services industry to retail companies. More information can be obtained by visiting the Web site at www.razrmarketing.com.

Austin, TX – March 23, 2010 – With the Software as a Service (SaaS) market expected to grow to $114 billion in 2010, the need for enterprise companies to offer services via the cloud is in full demand.  Renovatix Solutions, the leader in distributing enterprise branded marketplaces of name brand SaaS applications to SMB customers, and Maritz, a global leader in the incentive and loyalty rewards industries, today announced a strategic reseller agreement.  Through this relationship, Maritz now will provide its financial, insurance and enterprise clients a tailor-made solution that enables them to provide their SMB customers a one-stop-shop for SaaS business applications like communications, Web site services and document storage, through client-branded marketplaces.

Through Renovatix’ capability, based on the Etelos Platform Suite for SaaS distribution from Etelos, Inc., Maritz is poised to offer a simple, low-cost and easily implementable solution that enhances enterprise customers’ loyalty programs for their SMB customers.  For every dollar an SMB customer spends on SAAS applications using their credit card, they earn additional award points that they can redeem.

“Maritz stands alone as a provider of technology-based loyalty solutions to enterprise companies.  The emergence of SaaS to SMBs provides enterprises a very unique opportunity to extend services outside their traditional bounds, and remain brand relevant as they are utilized,” said J. Scott Robinson, general manager, Renovatix Solutions.  ”Maritz’ commitment to evaluation and adoption of leading edge technologies makes this solution a perfect fit to existing services while adding an immediate layer of value to their customer relationships.”

“The economy has taken a toll on small and medium-sized businesses, forcing them to look for new ways to run their business more efficiently and effectively,” said Chip Lerwick, group vice president, Maritz.  “With the Renovatix and Maritz agreement, Maritz’ financial services clients now can offer an easy solution to their SMB customers that not only improves their operations, but also provides opportunities for them to redeem for awards or cash to help reinvent their business.  Through this solution, banks will enhance their value and create stronger brand loyalty to an important customer segment – the small to medium business client.”

The companies are well under way with opportunities to respond to growing customer demand for these services.

About Renovatix Solutions, LLC Renovatix Solutions provides that “missing link” between leading enterprise companies and user communities whose SMBs rely on them to provide expertise and business critical resources.  Through our private label platform, we deliver an enterprise branded marketplace of world-class SaaS applications for virtually everything a SMB needs to start, or manage their business. For more information about Renovatix, please visit www.renovatixsolutions.com.  MYSMBSTORE™ and Renovatix Solutions™ are trademarks of Renovatix Solutions, LLC.

About Maritz St. Louis-based Maritz is a sales and marketing services company, which helps companies achieve their full potential through understanding, enabling, and motivating employees, channel partners and customers. Maritz provides market and customer research, communications, learning solutions, incentive initiatives, rewards and recognition, effective meeting, event and incentive management services and customer loyalty programs.  For more information, visitwww.maritz.com or call 1-877-4MARITZ. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Alliance with Leading Consulting Firm and SaaS Online Directory Makes It Easier for SMBs to Acquire On-Demand Services

Austin, TX – June 17, 2009 – Renovatix Solutions, the leader in providing client branded marketplaces of name brand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to small and medium (SMB) customers, and THINKstrategies, Inc. the pre-eminent consulting services firm helping organizations develop and execute their SaaS strategies and solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the growth of online SaaS marketplaces.

Renovatix Solutions’ SaaS marketplaces are uniquely designed to enable third-party administrators, including enterprises and other service providers, to private-label their SaaS eCommerce sites and give users single sign-on access to all of their applications.

As part of this partnership agreement, THINKstrategies will connect its SaaS Showplace online directory to Renovatix’s online SaaS marketplace, www.mysmbstore.com. Under the agreement, THINKstrategies will also be able to leverage Renovatix’s technology marketplace platform and will make the online marketplace available to SaaS Showplace visitors at no charge.

In addition, THINKstrategies will assist Renovatix in selecting future SaaS applications for inclusion in Renovatix’s managed marketplaces, and will identify additional partnership opportunities.

“We’re really excited to be working with Jeff Kaplan and THINKstrategies to accelerate the growth of our client-branded SaaS marketplaces, including leading application providers on the SaaS Showplace,” said J. Scott Robinson, General Manager, Renovatix Solutions.  “As we surveyed the landscape of SaaS professionals, it became clear very quickly that Jeff is the thought-leader in this burgeoning space.  We’re privileged to have an association with Jeff and THINKstrategies.”

Beginning today, visitors of the Saas Showplace can obtain powerful SaaS applications from leaders such as RatePoint, Google, Citrix, Six Apart, MediaWiki and dozens of others by going to www.mysmbstore.com/thinksaas.  The marketplace offers applications from VoIP, Accounting, CRM, Web hosting, Web creation, creative services, to inventory management, event management and a comprehensive suite of e-commerce tools.  Offered on a monthly subscription basis, users can cut their costs considerably, obtain all the applications they need anytime/anywhere via the web, and access them all with a single sign-on.

“THINKstrategies’ mission in establishing the SaaS Showplace in 2006 was to make organizations aware of the rapidly growing array of SaaS solutions available to address their IT and business needs,” stated Kaplan. “By working with Renovatix, we are now making it easier for organizations to acquire and utilize a widening assortment of on-demand solutions as well.”

About Renovatix Solutions, LLC
Renovatix Solutions provides that “missing link” between leading enterprise companies and user communities whose SMB’s rely on them to provide expertise and business critical resources.  Through our private label platform, we deliver an enterprise branded marketplace of world-class SaaS applications for virtually everything a SMB needs to start, or manage their business. For more information about Renovatix, please visit www.renovatixsolutions.com.  MYSMBSTORE™ and Renovatix Solutions™ are trademarks of Renovatix Solutions, LLC.

About THINKstrategies, Inc.
THINKstrategies, Inc. is the only strategic consulting services company formed specifically to address the unprecedented business challenges facing IT managers, solutions providers and investors today, as the technology industry shifts from a product-centric to a services-driven orientation.

THINKstrategies’ mission is to help our clients re-THINK their corporate strategies, and refocus their limited resources to achieve their business objectives. THINKstrategies helps enterprise decision-makers with their sourcing strategies, IT solutions providers with their marketing strategies, and VCs with their investment strategies.

In addition to the Software-as-a-Service Showplace, THINKstrategies is also the founder of the Managed Services Showplace, a vendor-independent, online directory and information resource center of managed service solutions.

Today’s small and medium business merchant (SMB) is facing greater challenges than ever before.  A struggling economy, poor consumer confidence and increased competition have SMB owners, and those planning to start a business, looking for new and economical resources to help manage their business.  The start up and ongoing costs can be imposing when revenues are down, and fixed costs are not adjustable.  As SMB’s price sensitivity increases, the financial institutions that serve them are growing more and more susceptible of losing their most profitable customers to competitors who launch aggressive acquisition campaigns.  Now, more than ever, loyalty to the SMB is of critical importance.

Austin, TX-based Renovatix Solutions is solving the problem on both fronts with an innovative approach.  Through a platform of leading software as a service (SaaS) based applications, a Financial Institution (FI) can brand an entire marketplace of world class branded SaaS applications ranging from VOIP, CRM, accounting, web services and many others, to SMB’s that need these services to start or manage their business.   The applications from the developers of Google, Citrix, Media Wiki, Movable Type, Ratepoint and dozens of others, are offered as monthly subscriptions and provisioned to a user’s account for both purchase and usage. With a single sign-on to their account, the SMB can literally access the applications they need to manage their business more cost effectively, and from any computer in the world.

The value to the FI results from offering these services, but more importantly, how frequently their merchants will visit to obtain them. The Renovatix platform provides the marketplace owner the capability to select the applications they want to offer, and brand the entire marketplace as their own solution, often aligning perfectly with existing services and messaging.  This allows the FI to maintain a tighter relationship with the SMB by being a central repository for their daily business applications and the ability to create targeted communications opportunities that deliver ever-changing marketing campaigns and thought leadership from their management.

“In our research of SMB merchants, we found that the second most common thing business owners do after obtaining their Articles of Incorporation, is to establish their banking relationship,” said Scott Robinson, General Manager of Renovatix Solutions.  “Who better to offer these daily services to their merchants than the most trusted resource these SMBs rely on… their bank.  With the growing acceptance of SaaS applications and the SMBs that use them, we felt there wasn’t a better time to introduce a subscription based platform for these services, especially given the state of the economy.”

That just begins to tell the story; in addition, Renovatix has also identified a glaring need within the loyalty programs catering to SMBs by working with leading loyalty-marketing firms over the years.

“It struck us that most programs these banks and providers offer to their SMB customers, don’t truly meet the unique requirements these merchants have. Travel, merchandise and gift cards are great options to individuals, but what do business owners really need?  Why not have a category of redemption options for services that the SMB could use to redeem their points or cash and mitigate the expenses of managing their business?” Robinson stated.  “The Renovatix platform allows the marketplace owner the alternative to offer these services so SMBs can both earn and use their points or cash program, with this very goal in mind.”

Now armed with a marketplace of leading SaaS applications and an informational platform that allows their customers to interact and share best practices, the FI is providing greater value to their customers, and staying in front of them on a regular basis, thus limiting the attrition of an FI’s most profitable customer.

Robinson remarked, “One marketplace owner estimated that by keeping just 1% of their SMB customers from attrition, it would result in a substantial savings of $14M of annual revenue.  Imagine a solution that resulted in 2-3%?  That becomes an incredibly valuable tool to retain customers, with significant ROI benefits.”

While the solution is perfectly suited to FIs with SMB customers, any organization with large constituents of SMBs is suitable for offering a marketplace.  Member organizations, technology providers, insurance companies and agencies are quickly grasping the power of offering such a solution.  However, in order to make the service effective for these groups, Renovatix also realized they had to solve for the single biggest hurdle when introducing a new technology; integration.

“Every technology related solution I’ve ever been involved in always comes back to the resources required, and where it falls in that client’s queue.  If the resources and time to implement aren’t available, that puts most technology projects at immediate high risk,” continued Robinson.  “We’ve developed a platform, that can be completely customized to the owners’ specifications and brought live, with absolutely no technology integration.  We host, manage and maintain all the partner relationships: billing, reporting, even funding the loyalty component in most instances.  Literally, all the client has to do is promote it, and enjoy a very healthy new stream of revenue, almost instantaneously.”

For more information on how Renovatix Solutions can put a marketplace such as this to work for you or your clients, please visit www.renovatixsolutions.com or contact Scott Robinson at scott@renovatixsolutions.com.  Renovatix is attending the 2009 Loyalty Expo.

Web application marketplace serves small and medium businesses that are seeking business solutions.
Austin, Texas – May 7, 2009 – Renovatix Solutions, a leading provider of end-to-end solutions and services for small business customers, and Etelos, Inc. (OTCBB: ETLO) today announced the launch of MYSMBSTORE serving as a central repository of hosted applications and information catering to the specific needs of small business customers.

Utilizing the Etelos Platform Suite for hosted applications, www.mysmbstore.com offers services ranging from VOIP, CRM, and document storage to Web creation, email management and accounting.  This unprecedented collection of well known solutions provides any SMB owner a one-stop shop of virtually everything needed to manage their day to day activities, with single sign on access. Offered as monthly subscriptions and hosted online, SMBs can use the store to centralize the management of these services and collaborate with millions of other SMBs to share best practices within a user community designed entirely for them.

“As SaaS begins to reach critical mass, there is no better example of how cost effective, secure and reliable these services can be delivered, than to the small business customer,” said J. Scott Robinson, General Manager, Renovatix Solutions. “MYSMBSTORE has everything they need to manage their business, along with the ideology this unique community culture stands for; being as creative and resourceful in obtaining these services, as they are in servicing their customers.”

The Etelos Platform Suite enables software developers to syndicate their products over various marketplaces and it gives vendors the ability to implement a custom marketplace to deploy on-demand Web software to businesses.

”A marketplace such as mysmbstore.com that caters directly to small and medium businesses provides a valuable tool for those businesses to succeed, Etelos Founder & CEO Danny Kolke said. “The marketplace Renovatix is building and launching contains many great tools that businesses will find valuable.”

Financial terms were not disclosed. For more information, please visit www.mysmbstore.com.

About Renovatix Solutions, LLC
Renovatix Solutions is a strategy consulting and management firm based in Austin, TX, enabling turnkey resources for companies that value the power and speed of professional sales, representation, marketing, billing and account management services. For more information about Renovatix, please visit www.renovatixsolutions.com. MYSMBSTORE™ and Renovatix Solutions™ are trademarks of Renovatix Solutions, LLC.

About Etelos, Inc.
Etelos (OTCBB: ETLO) is the provider of a Web app distribution platform delivering Web apps for businesses. Unlike other cloud computing and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions, Etelos enables software manufacturers to migrate existing applications or create new applications, then package, distribute, host, bill, market and support their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enabled application with their own application marketplace. Etelos™, the Etelos Platform™, EASE™, Etelos App Server™, Etelos VE™, Etelos Cloud™ and Etelos Marketplace™ are trademarks of Etelos, Inc.; other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. For more information about Etelos, please visit www.etelos.com.