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Hachette Book Group USA Selects NaviSite for Managed Messaging Services

Posted on: Monday, 21 August 2006, 09:00 CDT

NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of IT hosting, outsourcing and professional services for mid- to large-sized organizations, today announced that Hachette Book Group USA (HBG) has selected NaviSite to provide Managed Microsoft Exchange Services. NaviSite is delivering a dedicated Exchange messaging solution that offers a high-degree of flexibility and customization for HBG.

Hachette Book Group USA publishes the well-respected imprints Warner Books; Little, Brown & Company; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Faithwords; Center Street; Bulfinch; Springboard Press and Hachette Audio. The company, formerly Time Warner Book Group, a division of Time Inc. and Time Warner, was recently acquired by Hachette Livre, a French publisher, forming what is arguably the 3rd largest book publisher worldwide. As part of this transition, HBG needed to migrate from Time Warner's infrastructure and expand its own IT capabilities, including building or acquiring a complete and comprehensive messaging solution. HBG sought a service provider that could support this requirement, and the highly collaborative nature of its business, with a reliable and adaptable managed messaging solution.

"We have a very aggressive timetable in which we needed to complete this project," said Larry Feldman, VP of IT, Hachette Book Group USA. "All of my professional contacts suggested that it was difficult to build and maintain the in-house expertise and infrastructure needed to support a highly available and customizable messaging solution. We decided to engage a service provider instead, developing our list of candidates from Microsoft Gold Certified partners -- which was a much smaller list than we anticipated. After talking with several organizations, we ultimately selected NaviSite. Their solution offered much more flexibility, redundancy, and capability versus the competitors' services. We were also extremely impressed by NaviSite's Andover data center and the expertise and experience of the company's personnel."

"With six divisions, multiple office locations, and authors, distributors, and customers around the world, effective communication is an integral component to HBG's publishing business," said Mark Clayman, Senior Vice President of Hosting Services, NaviSite. "We understand the critical nature of messaging solutions today, and NaviSite delivers a variety of secure and reliable services to support customers with a broad spectrum of scalability and technology requirements."

NaviSite offers Managed Messaging services for the Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino platforms, including premium anti-spam and anti-virus protection, mobile messaging, message archiving and retrieval, instant messaging, and disaster recovery for messaging solutions. For more information, please visit http://messaging.navisite.com.

About Hachette Book Group USA

Hachette Book Group USA (HBG) is a division of Hachette Livre, a French publishing company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Lagardere, an organization that is active on a worldwide basis in the areas of communications and media (books, press, audiovisual and distribution/retailing of cultural products). In one year, HBG publishes approximately 500 adult books, 180 young adult and children's books, and 50 audio book titles. In 2005, the company had a record 69 books on the New York Times bestseller list, with 18 of them ranked #1. HBG also distributes publishing lines for Microsoft Press, Arcade, Disney/Hyperion, Time Inc. Home Entertainment, Harry N. Abrams, InnovativeKids, Phaidon, Gildan Audio and Hyperion AudioBooks.

About NaviSite, Inc.

NaviSite provides IT hosting, outsourcing and professional services for mid- to large-sized organizations. Leveraging a proven set of technologies and extensive subject matter expertise, we deliver cost-effective, flexible solutions that provide responsive and predictable levels of service for our clients' businesses. Over 900 companies across a variety of industries rely on NaviSite to build, implement and manage their mission-critical systems and applications. NaviSite is a trusted advisor committed to ensuring the long-term success of our customers' business applications and technology strategies. NaviSite has 14 state-of-the-art data centers and eight major office locations across the U.S., U.K. and India. For more information, please visit www.navisite.com.

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