-- Added more than 500 new customers;
-- Provided service to millions of users around the world; and
-- Increased the number of employees by nearly 70 percent.
Hundreds of new customers from virtually every sector of the global economy
signed on with MessageOne in 2006, including Allianz, American Red Cross,
Consolidated Edison, Educational Testing Service, Fulbright & Jaworski
L.L.P, Hearst Corporation, Macy's, New York City Economic Development
Corporation, Oppenheimer & Co., Siemens Business Services, Tulane
University and the Washington Post.
"By all key metrics, 2006 was a banner year for MessageOne with a
tremendous showing across sales, product development and international
operations," said Satin Mirchandani, MessageOne's President and CEO. "As
email has become the killer application for conducting virtually all
business, we are seeing rapidly accelerating demand for our robust and
comprehensive products and services. Today's organizations increasingly
want the complete email protection and management that MessageOne uniquely
provides."
New Archive Product and International Expansion Drive Growth
Drivers of MessageOne's impressive 2006 growth include:
-- Continued leadership in the email continuity market;
-- Launch of EMS Email Archive™; and
-- Significant international expansion.
MessageOne's EMS Email Continuity™, a breakthrough business continuity
managed service that makes email outages invisible to end users, continues
to lead the market for solutions that prevent downtime with Microsoft
Exchange and Lotus Notes. EMS is unique in its ability to defend against
all categories of downtime. It is the only email continuity solution
available today that provides complete protection, and it does this at a
fraction of the cost of other less effective options.
Launched at the end of the second quarter in 2006, MessageOne's new
archiving solution, EMS Email Archive, played a large role in acquisition
of new customers last year. During the third and fourth quarters, more
than 100 companies selected the versatile email archive solution built on
MessageOne's groundbreaking "Store Once, Use Everywhere" architecture. EMS
Email Archive is the only email archiving managed service to meet the major
enterprise requirements for email archiving: storage management,
e-discovery, compliance,
end-user access and disaster recovery/business continuity.
MessageOne's international business also grew significantly in 2006.
Revenue from outside North America jumped 400 percent -- with particular
strength in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe -- and now accounts
for 20 percent of the company's revenue. MessageOne operates a network of
top tier data centers around the world and last year expanded this
footprint in the United Kingdom and Germany to meet growth requirements,
fully comply with EU data privacy requirements, and provide a strong
foundation for future business in Europe.
MessageOne Eliminates Email Risks
For most organizations, email is the most important and ubiquitous business
application. For senior IT executives, email management presents many
risks: outages are common, security threats are everywhere, data loss
windows are significant, legal and compliance requests are increasingly
complex, and server and storage performance challenges continue to
escalate. This year alone, more than 75 percent of companies are expected
to experience a major email outage with an average duration of more than 26
hours.
MessageOne's rapid growth is the result of the company's unique position in
the market. Today, MessageOne offers the only total solution for email
continuity, BlackBerry continuity, email security, email recovery, email
archiving, e-discovery, and storage management. Together, these managed
services eliminate virtually all email-related problems that dominate the
CIO agenda. These benefits, combined with the breakthrough economics of the
"Store Once, Use Everywhere" architecture and single-day deployment
process, make MessageOne the de facto standard in the email management
marketplace.
In particular, MessageOne enables an organization to manage all of these
email threats and challenges, ensuring that:
-- Users always have access to email and BlackBerry Services;
-- No email messages will ever be lost;
-- Message stores can be reduced in size by as much as 80 percent;
-- Organizations can quickly meet legal e-discovery requests;
-- The performance and reliability of the production email environment
is optimized; and
-- Email will be secure and protected from spam and viruses.
About MessageOne
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, MessageOne is the leading provider of
managed services for email management, archive, and business continuity.
The company's Email Management Services (EMS) provides comprehensive email
archiving, continuity, recovery, security, and storage management for
enterprise email systems. In addition, MessageOne's AlertFind™ provides
guaranteed emergency notification and escalation to help companies protect
their employees during any crisis or disaster. Millions of users around the
world depend on MessageOne for its award-winning managed services. For more
information, please visit www.messageone.com.
Contact Information: For more information, contact: Susie Tull Vice President, Corporate Communications MessageOne, Inc. Phone: 512-652-4500, x. 372 Email: Email Contact Lisa Hendrickson Public Relations MessageOne, Inc. Phone: 516-767-8390 Email: Email Contact