On the 29th of July 2015, Autotask acquired Soonr — the technology provider for our Australian File Sync and Share product of the same name. On Wednesday the 5th of August I met with Mark Cattini (President and CEO), Elmer Lai (CFO) and Patrick Burns (VP Product Management) of Autotask in the Soonr offices in San Jose to discuss the future of how we will work with Soonr/Autotask in Australia and New Zealand.
Some key points:
- Manage Protect remains committed to the Soonr technology and platform and will continue to build the Soonr business through our MSP’s in Australia and New Zealand.
- Autotask have acquired Soonr to deliver further value, and depth in their product offering to their MSPs globally.
- Manage Protect will be keenly involved in promoting the Soonr product, but will not be selling or promoting Autotask to our partners.
- Manage Protect will continue to work with MSP’s and the tools that benefit them across all PSAs and RMMs.
- Autotask’s MSP’s will acquire Soonr technology, on boarding and help desk from Manage Protect through the Manage Protect partner programme.
We are excited to be working with the Autotask team in Australia, and have already been involved in training and on boarding of the Soonr product with them.
From a Manage Protect partner perspective, it is fairly much business as usual — except we are confident that Soonr’s roadmap, vision and direction is now firmly locked into the MSP space, and we are excited at what will be coming in the roadmap…