Aussie MSP services marketplace VirtualPlatform launches

Australian wholesale IT services aggregation marketplace VirtualPlatform has launched, offering services for managed services providers (MSP).

The platform was co-founded by former Wagga Wagga-based IT services provider Kinetix Networks’ CTO Stuart Wallis, who came up with the platform on his own time five years ago. He then met with Kinetix’s former head of sales and marketing Piers Tyler, who had just left the MSP, and the pair decided to commercialise Stallis’ work as a new business.

VirtualPlatform is focused on four core pillars – Qualify and Buy, Monitoring and Diagnostics, Notifications, and Rebill. It allows users to qualify, compare, purchase, support and bill products via the application programming interface- (API) first platform.

The initial offering includes services such as both session initiation protocol (SIP) and call termination services (CTS) for voice, National Broadband Network (NBN), Telstra and AAPT connectivity, Microsoft Office 365 licensing, device backup, cloud infrastructure and hosting.

Also on offer is DNS, SSL, SMS and fax to email services, among others. Additionally, Microsoft Teams Operator Connect Voice is set to be included soon and plans to include other services in the future.

The platform also has “Hero” features for most product sets, with the company pointing to the “New Telephone Number Picker” as an example, which enables users to select a chosen number from the national pool with dropdown selections.