What Hosted groupwise does

Hosted GroupWise is the customer-facing brand of Marvin Huffaker Consulting, Inc., a Phoenix, Arizona-based solo IT consulting firm founded in 2002 by Marvin Huffaker. The firm specializes in OpenText GroupWise email platform services, offering managed hosting, consulting for upgrades and migrations, system stability and troubleshooting, security hardening, and a set of ecosystem integration services covering Retain Archiving, GroupWise Mobility, GroupWise Messenger, NetIQ Advanced Authentication, Sophos Central email security, and Zix email encryption. Its customer base consists of IT directors, administrators, business owners, and leadership teams who operate legacy GroupWise environments and require senior-level expertise to stabilize, modernize, or migrate their messaging infrastructure.

The firm operates as a single-person practice with no disclosed employees beyond the founder, no external funding, and no parent company. It generates revenue through three streams: managed GroupWise services billed as monthly recurring subscriptions on customized single-tenant environments, scoped consulting engagements billed per project, and ecosystem services delivered either as part of managed contracts or standalone projects. Go-to-market is consultant-led and direct: the website, technical resources, and blog drive top-of-funnel awareness, while a no-pressure discovery call with Marvin Huffaker converts prospects into scoped engagements or managed-services contracts. The firm claims worldwide service reach, reflecting its remote-delivery model rather than physical office expansion.

The company's stated differentiation rests on nearly 25 years of focused GroupWise expertise, proprietary troubleshooting methodologies built through hands-on experience, direct senior-architect accountability, and a predictable engagement model with documented steps and rollback options. The addressable market is structurally constrained by GroupWise's declining status as a legacy email platform, which the firm offsets by extending its service catalog into adjacent areas such as litigation support, Novell NetWare legacy support, and broader data center hosting and colocation.

Name

Hosted groupwise

Legal name

Marvin Huffaker Consulting, Inc

Website

https://hostedgroupwise.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Hosted GroupWise (Marvin Huffaker Consulting, Inc.) is a Phoenix-based solo IT consulting firm specializing in managed hosting, consulting, migration, and security services for legacy OpenText GroupWise email environments, serving IT leadership and administrators worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Managed Email and Messaging Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

Managed Colocation & Remote Hands Services (HDABACAD)

Keywords

• Managed email services
• GroupWise consulting
• Messaging platform support
• Email hosting services
• IT infrastructure consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Phoenix

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Managed GroupWise Services: Fully managed GroupWise email platform delivered as a complete service. Customized to support business operations, risk profile, and growth. Includes infrastructure management, monitoring, security, backups, maintenance, licensing, and continuity planning. Revenue generated through predictable monthly fees covering all platform management.
2. GroupWise Consulting Services: Professional consulting engagements for GroupWise environments including upgrades and migrations, system stability and troubleshooting, architecture and health assessments. Billed per engagement or project scope.
3. GroupWise Ecosystem Services: Additional services for the GroupWise ecosystem including archiving (Retain), mobility solutions, messaging (GroupWise Messenger), and security/authentication (NetIQ, MFA, Sophos, Zix). Delivered as part of managed services or standalone consulting engagements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Hosted GroupWise delivers fully managed OpenText GroupWise email hosting and expert consulting for organizations running legacy GroupWise environments. The core platform removes infrastructure, maintenance, security, and continuity burdens through a single-tenant managed service, supplemented by consulting engagements for upgrades, migrations, troubleshooting, and ecosystem integrations (archiving, mobility, security).

Product overview

Hosted GroupWise (Managed GroupWise Services) is a single, unified managed email platform offered by Marvin Huffaker Consulting. The core offering is the Managed GroupWise Services platform, which provides fully hosted and managed GroupWise email infrastructure. This core platform is supplemented by consulting services for upgrades/migrations, troubleshooting, and architecture assessments; archiving and recovery services using Retain; mobility and messaging services including GroupWise Mobility and Messenger; and security services including MFA, Sophos Central, and Zix encryption. The company also offers specialized legal/litigation support and cloud/hosted GroupWise access via GWWEB for modern web and mobile use.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Managed GroupWise Services Fully managed single-tenant GroupWise email platform delivered as a complete service covering infrastructure, monitoring, security, backups, patches, licensing, high availability, and disaster recovery for organizations wanting to eliminate on-premise messaging burden.
• GroupWise Consulting Services Professional consulting engagements covering GroupWise upgrades and migrations, system stability and troubleshooting, and architecture and health assessments for IT directors, administrators, and leadership teams.
• Hosted GroupWise Cloud-hosted GroupWise environment providing flexible access through full GroupWise Client, modern web access via GWWEB, and mobile access for iOS and Android, delivered as the hosted form of the Managed GroupWise Services platform.
• GroupWise Litigation and Legal Support Specialized support services for GroupWise litigation and legal needs including e-discovery and compliance requirements.
• Data Center / Hosting Services / Colocation Data center hosting and colocation services supporting managed GroupWise and related infrastructure deployments.
• Archiving and Recovery Services Installation, configuration, migration, and disaster recovery validation services for Retain Archiving integrated with GroupWise and Microsoft 365 environments.
• Mobility and Messaging Services GroupWise Mobility installation, tuning, and troubleshooting, along with GroupWise Messenger installation and upgrades for mobile and instant messaging within the GroupWise ecosystem.
• Security and Authentication Services Security services including NetIQ Advanced Authentication Server MFA deployment, GroupWise Web MFA integration, SMTP relay and mailflow architecture, Sophos Central email security integration, and Zix email encryption setup.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced infrastructure burden through elimination of server hardware, operating system maintenance, cooling and electrical costs
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OpenText (GroupWise)coreTechnology or IntegrationPrimary technology platform being supported and managed. Marvin Huffaker Consulting provides consulting, migration, managed services, and support for OpenText GroupWise email and collaboration environments.
• Retain ArchivingcoreTechnology or IntegrationInstallation, configuration, and migration services for Retain Archiving solutions integrated with GroupWise environments. Includes indexing, storage optimization, and integration with Microsoft 365.
• GroupWise MobilitycoreTechnology or IntegrationInstallation, tuning, and troubleshooting services for GroupWise Mobility solution enabling mobile device synchronization with GroupWise environments.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• NetIQ (OpenText): Identity and access management vendor whose Advanced Authentication Server is integrated into Hosted GroupWise environments. Comparable as an adjacent technology vendor in the same GroupWise security stack rather than a direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Trustwave: Cybersecurity and email security provider with managed detection and compliance services. Comparable as a broad security incumbent that can compete for the same hardening and compliance mandates Marvin Huffaker addresses.
• Mimecast: Major cloud email security, archiving, and continuity vendor. Comparable because it competes for the same email-security and archiving wallet share Hosted GroupWise addresses with Sophos, Zix, and Retain — though at much broader scale.
• Hornetsecurity: European-headquartered email security, backup, and compliance vendor serving mid-market and enterprise. Comparable as a managed cloud email security alternative that overlaps with the security layer of Hosted GroupWise's offering.
• Proofpoint: Enterprise cybersecurity vendor with a strong email security, archiving, and compliance portfolio. Comparable as a broad incumbent offering overlapping security and compliance capabilities for messaging environments.
• OpenText (GroupWise Professional Services): Owner of the GroupWise platform and the largest provider of GroupWise professional services globally. Comparable because it sells directly the same managed and consulting services Hosted GroupWise offers, but at a broader enterprise scale and as part of a vast ECM portfolio.
• Barracuda Networks: Provider of email security, archiving, and backup solutions widely deployed alongside Microsoft 365 and legacy on-premise email. Comparable because it competes with the Sophos and Retain integrations Hosted GroupWise bundles into managed services.

Direct peers

• Messaging Architects: Long-standing consultancy specializing in Novell/GroupWise, Microsoft, and enterprise messaging migrations. Comparable as a direct peer in GroupWise-specific professional services and migrations, now aligned with OpenText.
• Cool Solutions (Novell/GroupWise community): Long-running independent community and resource hub focused on Novell/GroupWise administrators. Comparable as a peer GroupWise knowledge destination that supports and educates the same installed base Marvin Huffaker serves commercially.

Emerging players

• GWAVA (OpenText): Former standalone GroupWise security and archiving vendor, now aligned with the OpenText ecosystem. Comparable because it historically targeted the same security and archiving pain points Hosted GroupWise addresses inside managed environments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/hostedgroupwise
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hosted-groupwise

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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