Parallels is pleased to announce several new services in 2013 that will empower service providers to grow their business.

•  The Parallels Cloud Acceleration Services from Parallels Business Consulting include will help businesses with service definition, business processes, and go-to-market planning as well as offer leading practices forged from over 200 Parallels Automation deployments.

• The 2013 SMB Cloud Insights research offers a new category of market intelligence around Cloud Strategy.  Using the power of Kano and conjoint analyses we are able provide you not just intelligence around market sizing and opportunities but also your best options for market and product strategy based on that intelligence. And later in 2013 we will further expand the value of our SMB Cloud Insights research by rolling out a new training product that distills the knowledge and insights from the SMB Cloud Insights research into tools you can use to train and certify your own staff.  This will allow you to drive market intelligence to support decision-making at every level of your company.

• To further engage the over 350 new certified hosting partners, as well as those certified partners who have already joined our Partner Program, we’re extending the Partner Program and ParterNet to ISVs with our new Cloud Services Developer Program.  This includes the new Parallels Cloud Service Certification program which both provides more market opportunity to APS ISVs and, through additional levels of training and validation, a better end user experience for APS applications on Parallels products.