• Strengthens #1 MSP-voted cloud automation platform to enable IT providers to grow
• Robust data protection for Group and Teams unlocks new profitability scenarios for partners
• Enhancements to SkyKick Syndication provide partners with more customizable ways to sell cloud migration and backup directly in their own e-commerce experiences
Seattle – June 27, 2018 – SkyKick (www.skykick.com), a global provider of cloud management software for information technology (IT) 
solution partners, announced today major enhancements to its Cloud Backup Suite for Office 365. The enhancements extend cloud backup data protection to Microsoft Office 365 Groups and Teams, 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 SkyKick Vice President of Product Management Chris Rayner. “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 SkyKick’s 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 the Groups and Teams enhancements, SkyKick is releasing support for point-in-time restore for Exchange and OneDrive for Business. Together, these enhancements further distinguish SkyKick’s Cloud Backup Suite as one of the most technically complete and partner-centric data protection solutions for Office 365. Groups and Teams is included in SkyKick’s Cloud Backup Suite for Office 365 and available at no additional cost for SkyKick 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 one of the first to offer a robust backup solution for Groups and Teams demonstrates their commitment to partner success,” said Ryan Chernick, president of Wisconsin-based partner CCCP. “Leading with a comprehensive, integrated solution like SkyKick’s gives us a competitive advantage while enhancing customer satisfaction.”
SkyKick is also announcing upgrades to SkyKick Syndication, which thousands of partners are using to incorporate SkyKick 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 SkyKick 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 SkyKick Syndication customers.
“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 at European partner Dustin Group.
“With our recent $40 million funding announcement, we reiterated our commitment to our 20,000 partners and the broader partner ecosystem,” said SkyKick Co-Founder and Co-CEO Todd Schwartz. “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.”
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. With partners increasingly packaging and bundling cloud services, SkyKick’s unified cloud management platform provides integrated applications to help IT solution providers build more successful cloud businesses. The SkyKick Migration Suite allows IT consultants, system integrators, managed service providers, value-added resellers and other IT partners to automate an entire Office 365 migration project from initial sales to project completion. SkyKick’s Cloud Backup Suite provides cloud-to-cloud backup, unlimited storage and one-click restore of lost Office 365 data.
SkyKick’s new Cloud Backup Suite for Office 365 is available immediately. SkyKick will be demonstrating the enhancements in booth 1013 at the Microsoft Inspire Conference July 15 to 19 in Las Vegas, Nev.
About SkyKick
SkyKick is a global provider of cloud automation and management software for IT solution partners. Its products help build successful cloud businesses by making it easy and efficient for IT providers to migrate, backup and manage their customers in the cloud. Over 20,000 partners in more than 125 countries use SkyKick's products to accelerate their cloud business, and the company has won numerous awards including being named a Microsoft Partner of the Year and one of North America’s fastest growing technology companies according to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™. SkyKick’s global headquarters is in Seattle, European headquarters is in Amsterdam, and it has offices in Sydney and Tokyo. For more information visit skykick.com.