Smart Online Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for the small business market, announced that its onebiz^sm platform of small business productivity applications has been certified by SWSoft to be compliant with its Application Packaging Standard (APS). SWSoft designed the new APS to enhance its hosting platform used by clients, including 1&1 Internet, who has more than 6.0 million customers.

The APS standard enables Smart Online to sell the onebiz^sm applications through hosting providers and take advantage of the expanding market for SaaS applications - expected to surpass $19.3 billion by 2011 according to Stamford, Connecticut.-based research firm Gartner Inc. The Gold Application Standard certification signifies that onebiz^sm is a unified, open platform with module applications that are “pluggable” and can be delivered by service providers with nominal integration costs and effort.

Smart Online’s onebiz^sm platform features integrated daily-use applications for small businesses, including accounting, customer relationship management (CRM), salesforce automation (SFA), human resources, shared calendars and contacts, dashboards, business plan and marketing plan writers, and more than 2,000 business forms and letters.