CloudSway receives final approval for participation in the Microsoft Windows Azure Metro program as a team member

CloudSway chooses Windows Azure as operating system of choice for development, service hosting and service management

Tacoma, Washington – (July 9, 2010)—CloudSway™ announced today that they have received final approval from the Microsoft® Windows® Azure™ Metro Program Team to participate as a team member. The Metro program offers a structured approach to early adoption by providing CloudSway the ability to discover and evaluate
pre-release Microsoft technologies, pilot and build applications and services on Microsoft Beta products, and access Microsoft Beta Product Support

Scott West, CloudSway CEO said, “We are working to be a serious contender in Cloud technologies. While we have an initial target application that is accounting-centric, we need a robust and stable development platform that will speed our time to market, reduce our development costs, and respond quickly to customer needs while removing the need for hardware. Microsoft’s Windows Azure is the quintessential development environment that can deliver that and much more”.

CloudSway will be able to download bits and online training kits to jumpstart the development cycle. The company believes that Microsoft’s strong historical commitment to providing timely technical briefings, hands on lab instructor led events and an Application Compatibility Lab are much need to succeed in our mission to provide the very best Cloud Accounting Solution for Cumulus™ our market entry software contribution. Microsoft provides technical support to help speed the development of applications that will prove invaluable to Cloud Sway and its customers. “Dennis Sullivan, Public Relations for CloudSway said, “This program will allow us to leverage its relationship as a Metro Team Member to access joint public relations activities providing serious positioning for CloudSway”.


About Cumulus
CloudSway’s Cumulus product is a combination of Cloud technology, social networking, and fixed and mobile applications. CloudSway has brought together a bevy of applications never before offered in the accounting-specific world that will save time, money, and grow businesses. The benefits to Cumulus are felt both by the accountant and the accountant’s customer by providing superior, accurate, and safe document and time management in the Cloud.

Windows Azure provides a high degree of security. Documents should also be easy to access, easy to find and easy for both the accountant and the accountants client or internal group to work on in a cooperative environment. CloudSway has developed a document management system that actually works the way the accounting client relationship is suppose to work―harmoniously. Cumulus is built on a full “share and cooperate” platform. CloudSway is a firm believer that the days of hierarchy structures are going by the way of the dinosaur. The world of accounting is better served by relationships, and relational document management systems. Working with accountants, CloudSway has a firm grasp on what should take place, but has realized that no system has fully embraced true accounting relationships.

Contact Information

Dennis Sullivan

Press Release

CloudSway

Contact via E-mail