Affiliated Computer Services Selects Mimosa NearPoint to Manage eDiscovery and Corporate Governance Processes Across Its Global Enterprise.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Mimosa NearPoint Chosen for its Next Generation Architecture to Solve Critical Email Archiving Requirements Mimosa Systems(TM), Inc., a leader in unified information management solutions, today announced that Affiliated Computer Services Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) (NYSE: ACS) is a Fortune 500 company that provides information technology outsourcing as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ), a premier provider of diversified business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in and information technology outsourcing Information Technology Outsoucing or ITO is a company's outsourcing of computer or Internet related work, such as programming, to other companies. It is used in refence to Business Process Outsourcing or BPO, which is the outsourcing of the work that does not require so much solutions, has selected Mimosa NearPoint(TM) to replace its existing email archiving and eDiscovery solution for enterprise users. ACS turned to Mimosa based on NearPoint's next generation architecture to support management of email as a record of business. At ACS, a Global Fortune 500 company of over 55,000 employees supporting client operations reaching nearly 100 countries, managing email information is critical to meet legal requirements for enforcement of company policies and discovery of email. ACS needed a solution that could scale and manage the amount of data captured while minimizing the impact on its email systems and people resources. "Mimosa offered us the most complete solution on the market, with the comprehensive capture of email information combined with high performance search and eDiscovery," explained Bill Augustadt, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Application Managed Services, ACS, Inc. "With Mimosa, ACS has gained a strategic solution to enforce company policies for retention of content and to support legal discovery processes, all while boosting user productivity. Mimosa NearPoint is unique in the way it fits seamlessly into our existing production environment without relying on journaling and MAPI (Mail API) A programming interface from Microsoft that enables a client application to send to and receive mail from Exchange Server or a Microsoft Mail (MS Mail) messaging system. Microsoft applications such as Outlook, the Exchange client and Microsoft Schedule use MAPI. technologies for full data capture." ACS' legal team looked at other leading email archiving solutions during the review process and concluded that Mimosa offered the most comprehensive email archiving and legal discovery solution backed by revolutionary technology. The primary reasons ACS cites in selecting Mimosa NearPoint include: --Complete Search Results - Mimosa NearPoint's unique full data capture with complete message fidelity and context enables powerful search of messaging systems. It also enables exploration of relationships amongst items such as conversation threads and item history as well as recreation of point-in-time snapshots of mailboxes or folders. --Reduced Discovery Costs - Mimosa eDiscovery accelerates legal discovery processes enabling legal teams to perform multi-level online searches, and collaborate, share, review and export results. --Increased User Productivity - With fast, seamless search and access to all historical email information right from Outlook, ACS' business users now have the tools to enhance decision-making and speed the flow of information. --No Production Email Disruption - Mimosa NearPoint avoids time consuming and costly restructuring of the existing messaging infrastructure required to deploy journaling. This, along with the "zero-agent" architecture, dramatically reduces the time for deployment of archiving. "Mimosa is enthusiastic to partner with this highly respected global enterprise. We look forward to working with ACS as they use NearPoint to address the expanding email information management needs of their end-users as well as their legal, security and IT staff," said T.M. Ravi, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Mimosa Systems, Inc. "Mimosa NearPoint provides ACS a strategic platform to manage critical user-generated knowledge assets across the enterprise as their needs grow and evolve." About Mimosa NearPoint Mimosa NearPoint addresses critical customer requirements around email information archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, recovery and storage optimization. Mimosa NearPoint provides immediate mailbox and message recovery, disaster recovery, email archiving and self-service search and access in one solution. By leveraging cost-effective storage, NearPoint also optimizes email storage and reduces overall infrastructure costs. About Mimosa Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation information management solutions for information immediacy, discovery and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint(TM) for Microsoft(R) Exchange Server is the industry's most comprehensive information management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying email archiving, recovery and storage optimization. NearPoint assures email continuity and regulatory compliance, while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize email storage growth. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner recognized for its competencies in Networking Infrastructure Solutions, ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. Software Solutions, and Information Worker. Mimosa is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. whose investors include August Capital, Clearstone Venture Partners Clearstone Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on IT investing with offices in Santa Monica, CA, Menlo Park, CA, and Mumbai, India. Founded in 1997, as Idealab Capital Partners, Clearstone is responsible for the early-stage funding of many successful , Dot Edu Ventures and JAFCO Ventures. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. and Pune, India. For more information see www.MimosaSystems.com. About Affiliated Computer Services, Inc ACS, a global FORTUNE 500 company with more than 55,000 people supporting client operations reaching nearly 100 countries, provides business process outsourcing and information technology solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. The Company's Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol "ACS". ACS makes technology work. Visit ACS on the Internet at www.acs-inc.com.
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