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Parallels® Business Automation Standard Data Sheet

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Announcing the latest release of Parallels Business Automation Standard, version 4.3.2, with enhancements including:

• Support for Web Presence Builder 100/1000 sites license
• Critical Security fixes

Refer to PBAS 4.3.2 Release Notes for more information.

Download PBAS 4.3.2 from PartnerNet.

Learn how to upgrade by reading these step-by-step instructions from our Knowledge Base.

Friday, February 1, 2013

At Parallels, we’re always searching for fresh approaches that will help us create best-of-breed solutions. We test our products thoroughly in our own labs before releasing them, but we need feedback from you, our partners, to ensure that our solution meets your expectations. That’s why we look to you to help us kick the tires of our latest preproduction solutions by testing them in your own environment. Your real-world experience is vital to the success of our production-quality product.

The demo installation of the new PBAS Online Store 4.3 (Beta) is available at: http://dev.myhspc.com/shop/. This demo installation is updated to the latest build on a regular basis and has no customization applied. You can use it to track our development progress and latest implemented features.

Overview and download instructions are available at PartnerNet portal at: https://parallelsnetwork.com/pbas-partner-resources/pbas-online-store/

So please evaluate our beta release of Parallels Business Automation Standard Online Store 4.3 and then share your feedback with us. You’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that you contributed directly to making our product better.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Announcing the latest release of Parallels Business Automation Standard, version 4.3.1, with enhancements including:

• Migration tools for single domain "Plesk Domain" subscriptions to Parallels Plesk Automation (PPA)
• New Yellowpay payment plugin
• Updated German language pack
• Several bug fixes that were discovered and promptly fixed after the release of PBAS 4.3 (thanks to all PBAS customers who provided great feedback and suggestions!)

With PBAS 3.x and 4.0 reaching “end of life" this December, it’s very important to keep your PBAS installation up-to-date.

Learn how to upgrade by reading these step-by-step instructions from our Knowledge Base.

Refer to PBAS 4.3.1 Release Notes for more information.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Watch our latest "What's New in Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.3" webinar online to receive an update on all of the new features included in our latest release - PBAS 4.3, including:

• Integration with Parallels Plesk Automation(PPA)
• Centralized email / antivirus / antispam solution (Powered by PPA),
• Centralized database solution (Powered by PPA),
• Support for the latest Parallels Cloud Server 6,
• Support for MySQL 5.x,
• Many other product improvements.

Craig Bartholomew presented the new features and technologies of Parallels Plesk Automation, including new shared hosting services with centralized email.  

In addition, Jacquie Milam from Jelastic, explained how hosting companies such as Layershift and Planeetta Internet, who are both PBAS customers, have created an additional revenue stream by integrating their hosting infrastructure with Jelastic Java cloud platform.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Announcing the availability of the latest release of Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.3, which includes the following new product improvements:

• Integration with Parallels Plesk Automation(PPA)
• Centralized email / antivirus / antispam solution (Powered by PPA),
• Centralized database solution (Powered by PPA),
• Support for the latest Parallels Cloud Server 6,
• Support for MySQL 5.x,
• Many other product improvements.

With Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.3, you can:

• Streamline your hosting infrastructure and dramatically extend its capabilities by deploying integrated Parallels Plesk Automation nodes.
• Differentiate your offerings by launching new shared hosting services that include a centralized email/antivirus/anti-spam solution and a centralized database solution—all powered by Parallels Plesk Automation.
• Boost your sales with enhanced, high-performance, high-availability VPS and VM services, all powered by Parallels Cloud Server 6. These services let you specify CPU limits in MHz, recreate a container, change to a different operating system, and update without rebooting using the yum utility. They also increase virtual machine limits up to 32 CPU cores, 128 GB of RAM, and 5 TB of virtual disk space.
• Reduce support costs, both through a simplified EPP code retrieval function and through a new, unified user interface that gives your customers a consistent and seamless user experience across Parallels Automation, Parallels Plesk Automation, Parallels Plesk Panel, and PBAS.
• Increase system performance and stability by upgrading your database to MySQL 5.x. PBAS also supports an external, dedicated, 64-bit MySQL 5.x.

For more information, please refer to “What’s New in PBAS 4.3”.

PBAS 4.3 can be downloaded from the  Parallels Network web site. 

Please provide your feedback and suggestions at Parallels Business Automation Standard forum.

Customers new to Parallels Business Automation Standard can now receive a license at no cost, and jump start their hosting business under the new Revenue Share Program (with no commission on sales up to $8,000 in monthly revenue). Service providers deploying Parallels Business Automation Standard will receive free installation and administration training, plus full automation of their online store, billing, payment processing and hosting provisioning.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Announcing the availability of the preview release of Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.3, which includes the following new product improvements:

• Integration with Parallels Plesk Automation(PPA) 
• Centralized Email / Antivirus / Antispam solution (Powered by PPA)
• Centralized Database solution (Powered by PPA)
• Support for the latest Parallels Cloud Server 6 Beta 2
• Support for MySQL 5.x
• Support for EPP Auth Code Retrieval for eNom, OpenSRS and MIT plugins.
• Ability to Recreate a Container from Customer Control Panel and change host OS.
• Ability for Provider to Assign Custom Script to Reseller’s Events
• New product improvements

For more information, please refer to “What’s New in PBAS 4.3 Preview”.

PBAS 4.3 preview release can be downloaded from the Parallels Network web site. 

Please provide your feedback and suggestions at Parallels Business Automation Standard forum.

This is a public, unsupported preview of Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.3. A fully supported release is expected to be delivered in Q4 2012.

Customers new to Parallels Business Automation Standard can now receive a license at no cost, and jump start their hosting business under the new Revenue Share Program (with no commission on sales up to $8,000 in monthly revenue). Service providers deploying Parallels Business Automation Standard will receive free installation and administration training, plus full automation of their online store, billing, payment processing and hosting provisioning.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Announcing the latest release of Parallels Business Automation Standard, version 4.2.1, with enhancements including: 

• Improved integration with Parallels Plesk Panel 11
 
• Updated language packs for Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish
 
• Several bug fixes that were discovered and promptly fixed after the release of PBAS 4.2 (thanks to all PBAS customers who provided great feedback and suggestions!)

With PBAS 3.x and 4.0 reaching “end of life"  this December, it’s very important to keep your PBAS installation up-to-date. 

Learn how to upgrade by reading these step-by-step instructions from our Knowledge Base.

Refer to PBAS 4.2.1 Release Notes for more information.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.2 will help you increase revenue, control costs, and differentiate your services. It’s one more example of our continued focus on developing new features and capabilities that enable our partners to better manage and scale their hosting businesses.

Top features:    

• Support for Parallels Plesk Panel 11 
 
• Affiliate Program tools 
 
• New user interface for customer control panel, unified across all Parallels products
 
• Enhanced security 
 
• Cloud-like configuration flexibility
 
• Ability to offer fixed-amount discounts as well as percentage discounts
 
• Ability to combine multiple versions of an operating system in a single offering
 
• Support for Kayako Fusion Help Desk 
 
• Support for Hosted Exchange 2010 SP2 (through integration with Parallels Operations Automation 5.4)
 
• Enhanced reliability
 

With Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.2, you can:

• Increase your revenue by launching new shared and VPS hosting plans powered by Parallels Plesk Panel 11. The panel supports a rich portfolio of integrated add-ons, including an updated version of Parallels Web Presence Builder, with over 100 small business templates, plus the ability to optimize your website for viewing on mobile phones.
 
• Boost your sales and customer loyalty with our all-new Affiliate Program tools, enabling your customers to earn money by advertising your services on their websites.
 
• Reduce support costs by providing a consistent and seamless experience to all your customers with our new unified user interface, now available across all our products—Parallels Automation, Parallels Plesk Panel, and Parallels Business Automation Standard.
 
• Improve security with new features designed to reduce and avert vulnerabilities. These include use of an encrypted security key for Parallels Panel authorization, eliminating the need for you to store credentials, plus updated third-party packages that offer enhanced security.
 
• Differentiate your offerings with new “cloud-like” configuration flexibility that lets you decide which resources you want to appear in your store as billable options, and which ones you want to treat as non-billable and therefore exclude from your store offerings.
 
• Attract new customers by using our new promotion plug-in, which lets you offer fixed-amount discounts (e.g., $20 off), in addition to percentage discounts.
 
• Enhance your VPS hosting plans by offering different versions of Linux (Red Hat, CentOS, Mandrake, SUSE) or Windows (Windows 2003, Windows 2008) within the same hosting plan, rather than having to create a different hosting plan for each version of the operating system. (You still need to have separate offerings for Linux and Windows—this feature just lets you combine different versions of the same operating system within a single offering.)
 
• Deliver a better customer experience and improved support services with an updated integrated module for the Kayako Fusion Help Desk solution.
 
• Offer Hosted Exchange 2010 SP2 services by integrating Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.2 with Parallels Operations Automation 5.4.
 
• Increase customer satisfaction with more reliable software. The latest version of Parallels Business Automation Standard includes bug fixes related to billing, provisioning, the on-line store, payment and domain registration plug-ins, and more.
 

• For more information, please refer to PBAS 4.2 Release Notes

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

With Parallels Business Automation 4.1.5 you can: 

• Increase your revenue and differentiate your offerings by providing new Shared and VPS hosting plans powered by latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, CentOS 6 and Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4  
• Upsell your customers with Plesk Power Pack and provide new, cool mobile application "Mobile Server Manager for Parallels Plesk Panel" which allows your customers to monitor and control their VPS servers 
• Increase sales of VPS plans bundled with Parallels Plesk 10.4 for Windows to Web Designers and Developers. Thanks to the new support in Plesk 10.4 for Microsoft's Webmatrix!
• Simplify your offering by replacing old Plesk and Small Business Panel hosting plans with simply one - Plesk 10.4 panel that mirrors exact functionality of both.
• Allow your customers create a blog in seconds and share their files and documents with the new Web Presence Builder. One more reason to upgrade them to VPS!
• Manage PHP settings right from the Plesk Domain hosting plan configuration
• Control resource over usage policy for Plesk Domain and Plesk Client with more options
• Allow your customers to manage Reverse DNS PTR records from Control Panel
• Increase sales by offering wider range of domain TLDs with new, improved OpenSRS and eNom domain plugin
• Increase customer satisfaction by fixing many bugs related to PVC, Parallels Plesk Panel integration, billing and plug-ins.
• Start your hosting business and save cost with new Revenue Share Pricing 
 

Friday, October 7, 2011

With Parallels Business Automation 4.1.4 you can:

• Increase your revenue by offering latest version of Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and CentOS 6 based VPS hosting plans
  The latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) delivers advances in application performance, scalability and security. PBAS 4.1.4 combined with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 now enables you to offer VPS services based on RHEL6. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 going to the End of production 1 phase this quarter, it is important to start offering the latest supported Linux OS as an upgrade for existing customers.
 
• Save on hardware cost and become more competitive by deploying the latest versions of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.7 and Parallels Server Bare Metal 5
  PBAS 4.1.4 can now manage the full range of Parallels virtualization solutions including the latest released versions of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Linux and Windows as well as the new Parallels Server Bare Metal 5. Deploying both Parallels Server Bare Metal 5 and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 on the same server allows service providers to maximize their investment in hardware even further.
 
• Boost ARPU by offering new SSL products from OpenSRS and eNom
  New OpenSRS and enhanced eNom SSL plug-ins are now available in PBAS 4.1.4 which support a wide range of SSL products from Comodo, GeoTrust, RapidSSL, Thawte, Trustwave and Verisign. Upsell your existing customers with the latest SSL products and make their shopping carts, online CRMs and webmail even more secure.