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Severa Announces Reseller Program for Professional Services Automation and Project Management
Reseller Clients Receive Full Technical Support Services From Severa

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 06/23/09 -- Severa Corporation (www.severa.com), a leading provider of online project management and professional services automation (PSA), today took the wraps off its new reseller program. The Severa reseller program offers incentives such as free and unlimited technical support, no initiation fees, online registration, and first month's full subscription fees. Resellers can also rest assured that the Severa system requires no hardware upgrades or IT personnel involvement.

"Resellers can sign up online and begin selling the Severa tool immediately. Resellers will be supported by commission-based revenues, no technical support responsibility, brandable marketing collateral, and most importantly, they will never have to make a truck stop to install or support this application," said Ville Kuusela, COO at Severa Corp.

Once resellers register their clients, the system will generate an activation key via email. Resellers can then collect commissions from their paying clients. Resellers are entitled to receive their clients' first month entire subscription fee.

With over 8,000 users of Severa's online PSA application to manage some 130,000 projects, the SaaS-based solution calls for minimal user training and features some CRM and time and billing services.

End users include professional services organizations in the fields of advertising, architecture, engineering, IT services, management consulting, legal and marketing/public relations.

Of note is Severa's one-click methodology for quick access to most commonly used functions such as adding customers, entering work hours or running reports.

According to a recent customer survey, 78% of Severa's customers confirmed that their billing became more efficient and 70% said they had managed to clarify their business operations while mitigating processes that cause revenue leakage.

Severa offers a first-user license free of charge: www.severa.com.

About Severa

Severa Corporation is a leading provider of SaaS-based professional services automation designed to take the pain out of project management for small- to medium-sized businesses. Severa 3 is offered as an online application for verticals such as advertising agencies, IT consulting, law firms, engineering houses and architecture firms. Severa enables its customers to manage customers, projects, work time and billing more easily and efficiently with one system. Severa's transparency into project data helps communicate business objectives, optimize resource allocation and reduce revenue leakage. Severa has received the Red Herring Global 2008 Winner Award. For more information on Severa Corporation visit www.severa.com.

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