Boonbox

Pacific Coast Information Systems

700-1112 Pender Street West

Vancouver, BC V6E 2S1 Canada

+1 (604) 844-7558

www.boonbox.net

 

For Immediate Release

 

PCIS Announces Boonbox Adding Passpro

to Boxed Service™ Line

 Enabling Easy but Secure Password Reset for Users

 

VANCOUVER, CANADA – May 5, 2008 – Boonbox, a division of Pacific Coast Information Systems (PCIS) Ltd., announces the addition of Passpro to its product offerings in Boonbox’s Boxed Service™ line of solutions targeted at increasing business productivity.  Passpro allows a business’ IT department a secure way for their users to independently and promptly reset passwords which improves productivity and decreases IT department demands, thereby also lowering the costs of technical service and support.

 

Boonbox agrees with industry analyst firm, Gartner, who reported last year that 30% of help desk calls are related to password problems.  “IT departments are facing an overwhelming number of requests that prohibit skilled staff from responding to more business critical operations.  We recognize this is a setback to businesses, and developed a solution to help businesses increase cost efficiencies,” said Vaclav Vincalek, president of PCIS.

 

Boonbox believes in minimizing the risk and maximizing the return of its customers’ Passpro investment.  With help-desk calls ranging from $30-$70, password reset requests can become costly.  Passpro is delivered as a per user model, making it easy for businesses to benefit from Passpro with a return on their investment that makes sense. 

 

“We are pleased with our decision to work with Boonbox in building a Passpro solution that will help our technicians to better provision and manage user access to our systems. We also think there is definite value in introducing the ability to allow our subscribers to reset their own passwords using our IT service platform,” said Larry Velez, Founder and CTO of Sinu. “Passpro provides the perfect balance between an Enterprise class identity solution and password management that's easy to use.”

 

Partnering with premier world-class technology vendors, Boonbox offers customers the best proven and market leading products combined with IT consultancy.  Passpro is one of the series of products offered in Boonbox’s Boxed Service™ solution.  Recently, Boonbox launched Devfense to address web security issues and has data recovery options in the mix.

 

Boonbox was created in response to the growing demand on businesses to offer value to their customers with the current problems of a shrinking qualified IT talent pool, decreasing budgets and the growing complexity of the IT landscape.  Boonbox removes the barriers of upfront capital cost in licensing, hardware, and the dependence on already overstretched in-house IT expertise.

 

About Boonbox – www.boonbox.net

Boonbox, a division of PCIS, was created in 2007.  Boonbox specializes in productivity solutions that deliver immediate results in support of business challenges. Partnered with world-class, market leading technology vendors, Boonbox enables mid-sized companies to address security, compliance and data integrity issues.

 

About PCIS – www.pcis.com

Pacific Coast Information Systems (PCIS) Ltd. is a full-service technology and consulting firm based in Vancouver. Founded in 1995 as a technology company providing application development and support, PCIS’s core business today is to provide technical assessment & services, business analysis, and IT project management. PCIS has proven expertise in networking, security, application development, portals and compliance.

 

About SINU – www.sinu.com

Sinu delivers an all-inclusive, outsourced IT department for small business and non-profits called Sinu IT Service. Sinu IT Service is a superior alternative to traditional consultants and in-house IT, delivering unrivalled functionality, features and support at fixed cost with an average savings of over 60%. Sinu achieves these improvements by escaping the cycle of redundant custom solutions traditionally developed for small business. Sinu’s proprietary IT service application delivers, integrates and tracks all of a customer’s IT functionality, including communications, mobility, file share, security, backup and support.

 

###

 

Media Contacts:

 

Karen Chiang                                        

Boonbox Program Manager, PCIS

Phone: +1 (604) 844-7558                     

KarenChiang@pcis.com                          

 

Anna Vue

Boonbox PR, Cross Border Communications-SFO, Inc.

Phone +1 (916) 595-8157

anna@crossborderpr.com

David Owen

Sinu Marketing and PR

Phone: +1 (877) 619-7468

david@sinu.com