Ensim® Corporation, the leading hosting automation provider, and Quantified Systems, Inc., maker of Urchin®, the Web metrics standard, announced today a marketing and technology agreement that lets the Urchin Web-site analysis products be purchased and resold as a service through Ensim’s ServerXchange™ hosting automation platform. The new agreement boosts revenue opportunities and differentiation in the marketplace for ServerXchange-enabled hosting providers.

The alliance with Quantified Systems further strengthens Ensim’s mission of providing the hosting industry with products and services that increase the efficiencies and profitability of Web-server infrastructures. Urchin has garnered wide-spread popularity as an advanced reporting tool that Web hosters can package as a service to their enterprise customers. Through the agreement, hosting providers can use the ServerXchange drag-and-drop interface to deploy and administer Urchin 3, allowing them to easily market the services to enterprises.

“Our agreement to bundle Urchin, the leader in Web-traffic reporting, continues to round out ServerXchange as the most complete hosting automation platform available to service providers,” said Sandip Gupta, vice president of business development at Ensim. “The benefits of this relationship are immediately apparent as we use the open application programming interfaces of ServerXchange to add another way for hosting providers to rapidly scale their operations.”

“We saw an enormous synergy between ServerXchange and Urchin in jointly reaching out to service providers for a combined, powerful solution,” said Brett Crosby, executive vice president of business development, Quantified Systems. “The Web-traffic reporting that Urchin provides is essential for any business, so for hosts it will greatly reduce customer churn and improve customer satisfaction – the essentials for successful growth in this industry.”

With ServerXchange, hosting providers can instantly develop a hosting business using Windows® 2000, Linux or Solaris® as platforms for their servers. Providers of hosting plans using ServerXchange enjoy:


A powerful point-and-click, remote administration interface.

A complete set of automation tools for the provisioning, deployment and configuration of servers, customers and hosting plans.

Easy-to-use customer self-administration tools for resellers and end customers.

Mass administration of deployed services.
Key Urchin features that will be made available through ServerXchange include:

Intuitive, browser-based reports with instantly familiar navigation, including referrals, search-engine keywords, and click-through visitor navigation reports.

Urchin’s e-commerce reporting module, the first dollar-based Web-site traffic-reporting system that provides precise revenue reporting in conjunction with Web traffic analysis.

Authenticated users reporting for password-protected areas of a Website.

Exportable data feature that allows users to export any report in tab-separated form for use in database and spreadsheet applications for further analysis.

Co-brandable interface for hosting companies to add their company logo.

Heterogeneous network support that allows Urchin to run on 15 variations of UNIX and Windows 2000/NT. Urchin can process logs from any platform if installed centrally.
By working together, Ensim and Quantified have advanced the state of automation for server infrastructures and Web sites to make them more scalable, intelligent and responsive.