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Ensim Overview and History

Founded in 1998, Ensim is the leading provider of solutions to manage and automate private and public cloud; user entitlement, provisioning, billing, and customer support, for wide variety of applications and services. Technologies including unified communications (UC), virtual desktops and servers, hosted cloud applications (SaaS), email, instant messaging, VoIP, collaboration, database, and website hosting environments can be subscribed, provisioned, automated, secured, compliant, self-managed, invoiced, and policy controlled with Ensim products that easily overlay, interface, and extend existing infrastructure. Ensim boasts nearly 3,000,000 users and over 20,000 small, medium, and large sized organizations managed by the Service Provider, SaaS, MSP, Enterprise, and Cloud Manager versions of the solution through our network of Telco, ISP, MSP and VAR partners.

Ensim Unify provides advanced out of the box functionality in an extensible SOA framework that overlays existing infrastructure and supports legacy environments and configurations. Ensim Unify enables; access control, identity management, change management, automated provisioning, reporting and auditing, password and role management, along with delegated administration and device/client configuration. Pre-built, full function connectors include: Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, Blackberry, SharePoint, Lync, Office Communications Server (OCS), Windows Hosting (IIS), Microsoft SQL, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry as well as support for virtualization products from Microsoft, Citrix and VMware, and cloud offerings like GoogleApps and Microsoft Office 365. The Ensim Unify application connector SDK allows Ensim Unify’s capability to manage and control virtually any application, on premise or in the cloud.

Technology Leadership:

  • 1999 – First commercially available virtual private server (VPS) solution
    (14 technology patents awarded)
  • 2000 – Introduced Server xChange and App xChange leading ASP management platforms
  • 2001 – Introduced Ensim Pro (Webppliance) integrated solution for Linux and Windows web hosting for shared and dedicated environments
  • 2003 – Launched Ensim Unify Shared Edition for telco and hosting service providers with connectors for messaging and collaboration applications (Microsoft Exchange, Windows Hosting (IIS), Microsoft SQL)
  • 2004 – Released connectors for SharePoint, Live Communication Server, BlackBerry, Fenestrae Communication Server, Cycos Communications Server, Linux Hosting (Appache), and MySQL
  • 2005 – Acquired Telegea, leading developer of Java based service delivery and work-flow solutions for VoIP service providers. Released Ensim Unify SDK, allowing ISV’s and service providers to develop their own connectors and offer applications as a hosted service directly or through Ensims partner network (over 40 connectors built to date and counting)
  • 2006 – Released connectors for Siemens OpenScape and BroadSoft’s Broadworks. Released Device Manager SDK allowing management and configuration of clients and devices. Licensed virtual environment management technologies to industry leading companies
  • 2007 – Launched Unify Enterprise Edition for medium and large sized organizations. Licensed application and server management, VoIP, Virtual Private Server, and numerous virtual environment technologies to industry leading companies. Sold Ensim Pro product line (for small scale webhosting industry).
  • 2008 – Launched the Ensim Unify Enterprise partner program, adding 11 partners to its worldwide network of value added resellers. Our Enterprise Edition was named the 2008 "Editor's Best" Award Winner by Windows IT Pro Magazine. Ensim Unify Service Provider was selected by telecom giant KDDI to power its SaaS offering.
  • 2009 – Ensim and its growing reseller network surpassed 2 million seats in Enterprise and Service Provider deployments worldwide. Ensim Unify's OCS Manager enabled the largest Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 deployment in North America with over 150,000 seats. In addition to being the first to deploy full management support for Exchange 2010, Ensim Unify received a Product of the Year award from Unified Communication Magazine.
  • 2010 - Ensim released new and updated products including Audit Manager as well as major new releases of both its Enterprise and Service Provider products. Ensim continued its drive to support advanced Microsoft server technologies including SharePoint 2010 and Office Communication Server (now Lync). These advances led to major new customer wins and a significant increase in overall revenue. Industry recognition for these accomplishments included Windows IT Pro 2010 Editors' Best Award, Network Products Guide 2010 Product Innovation Award and Reader Trust Award for Best in Automated Compliance Management, Internet Telephony® Magazine’s Twelfth Annual Product of the Year Award, and Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award.
Ensim is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner in multiple disciplines and maintains strategic partnerships with many leading vendors, including Research In Motion (BlackBerry), Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Citrix, VMware, Accenture, Siemens and BroadSoft. 

 

 

 
 
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