| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Jersey City, New Jersey, USA |
Key people | Xunkai (Kai) Gong, Co-founder & CEO Tianyi (TJ) Jiang, Co-CEO |
| Products | DocAve Software Platform, DocAve for SalesForce |
Number of employees | 800+ (Q2 2011) |
| Website | www.avepoint.com |
AvePoint is an independent software vendor and manufacturer, headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey and founded in 2001. AvePoint develops, sells, and supports infrastructure management software platforms for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.
AvePoint’s primary platform, the DocAve Software Platform,[1] integrates more than 30 independently deployable modules for SharePoint backup and recovery, administration, replication, migration,[2] archiving, deployment management, reporting, storage optimization,[3] and content lifecycle management.[4] Modules function within a unified, browser-based interface and fully distributed architecture, but can also be purchased and deployed independently.
AvePoint’s DocAve for Salesforce solution has independently deployable modules for data protection and integration of customer relationship management data with SharePoint. Modules include DocAve Data Protector for Salesforce, DocAve Data Replicator for Salesforce, and DocAve Content Replicator for Salesforce.
AvePoint is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. The companies work together to maintain compatibility as new generations of SharePoint products are developed.[5] Additionally, AvePoint engages in original equipment manufacturer partnerships to leverage its technology through third-party software components. Through an OEM agreement with IBM, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager utilizes DocAve’s browser-based interface and backup and restore capabilities.[6] NetApp SnapManager for Microsoft SharePoint also features DocAve’s backup and restore capabilities through a private-label OEM agreement.[7]
AvePoint currently has more than 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide, including organizations in the legal, financial, production, cosmetic, manufacturing, mining,[8] health, government and defense, and academic industry verticals. The company’s principle engineering center is located in Jersey City, NJ, with wholly owned sales and engineering centers in the USA – San Jose,Los Angeles,Seattle, Chicago, Washington D.C., Houston, Boston, Manhattan; Ontario, Canada; Melbourne, Australia; London, United Kingdom; Munich, Germany; Johannesburg, South Africa; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; and Beijing, Changchun, and Dalian, China.
References
edit- ^ Article on DocAve 5.0 at http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/docave-50-aims-to-protect-and-manage-sharepoint-003147.php
- ^ Article on migration at http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20110316/bs_prweb/prweb5167094
- ^ Article on managing SharePoint BLOB content at http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/manage-sharepoint-blob-content-with-free-tool-from-avepoint-006795.php
- ^ Article on SharePoint SQL storage, archiving at http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/avepoint-manages-sharepoint-sql-storage-archiving-005979.php
- ^ Article on Office365 Beta at http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/avepoint-supports-office365-beta-manage-your-sharepoint-content-anywhere-009113.php
- ^ Press release on OEM agreement with IBM to provide Microsoft SharePoint backup software as part of Tivoli Storage Manager at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/05/prweb523750.htm
- ^ Press release on NetApp expanding manageability software offerings to support Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environments at http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/news_rel_20070605a.html
- ^ Microsoft case study on Anglo American PLC at http://www.microsoft.com/southafrica/casestudies/manu_anglo.mspx