AmikaNow! and EDUCOM Announce OEM Technology Partnership.Business Editors OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001 AmikaNow!, a leader in email management tools driven by intelligent content interpretation software and EDUCOM EDUCOM Educational Communications , a leading provider of integrated email management and archiving solutions, today announced an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partnership that will allow EDUCOM to integrate AmikaNow! technology directly into their Exchange Archive Solution (EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) A security system for preventing theft in retail stores that uses disposable label tags or reusable hard tags attached to the merchandise. ) email management platform. Email systems are used as the primary enterprise medium to conduct business discussions and carry out decisions and actions. They have become the communication medium of choice within most organizations. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Pitney Bowes  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , email today represents 97% of communication in the enterprise. According to IDC we now have over 1 Billion corporate email boxes receiving an average of 37 emails a day. A growing proportion of emails are official corporate documents that need to be archived and later searched. EDUCOM has entered into a strategic OEM licensing agreement with AmikaNow! for the AmikaHighlighter content interpretation and summarization technology. The AmikaHighlighter is a high-performance, low-footprint software component that can be embedded in any system or application. This component can take any text as input and produce an abbreviated version as a set of key "highlights," or key content including key phrases or abbreviated key sentences of that text. EAS-Summation, powered by the AmikaHighlighter technology will offer organizations the option to leave meaningful email summaries or "stubs stubs The shares of equity in a firm that is financed almost completely with debt. Stubs are often created when firms go through a leveraged buyout or pay big cash dividends in order to fend off a takeover. " once the archive is complete. This facilitates search and moves well beyond the state-of-the art which currently only provides email headers rather than full email summaries. EDUCOM will also leverage the AmikaHighlighter summaries for mobile users. EAS-Mobile Browser will allow users browsing their Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. mail through the Microsoft Mobile Information Server to view concise summaries while mobile. In this manner the mobile user can quickly determine the relevance and importance of an email so that they may evaluate the need to respond and can avoid sorting through large messages. "It's great to be working with a company that shares a common vision with EDUCOM," says EDUCOM 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. Andy Moffat. "AmikaNow! is focused on delivering intelligent content parsers that will enable organizations to extract knowledge from the volumes of digital text accumulating throughout the organization. EDUCOM will focus on deploying the AmikaNow! technology on products centered on MS Exchange mail. The synergy between the two companies is excellent and after exhaustive research we are convinced that the AmikaHighlighter technology is the most advanced in its market space. With it we will be able to develop valuable add-ons to our EAS product." "We are very excited about working with EDUCOM. They have been pushing forward on a number of different technology fronts to address email management and we believe they understand the problems inherent with information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. that our technology is aimed at," says AmikaNow!'s President/CEO, Dr. Suhayya Abu-Hakima. "We were quite keen when EDUCOM came to us with instructions from their customer community to find a better way to deal with the enormous volume of e-mail that appears daily in everyone's mailbox. It is amazing to think that eight billion emails are exchanged on the Internet daily with six billion in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. alone. I expect the sector of email management to explode this year. We view this partnership with EDUCOM as key in our objective of facilitating the efficient use of relevant email in the enterprise." About AmikaNow! AmikaNow! Corporation delivers end-to-end email management solutions with its partners for organizational email policy compliance and mobile message management. AmikaNow! has a number of email content management SDKs available including the AmikaHighlighter (a content interpretation and abbreviation abbreviation, in writing, arbitrary shortening of a word, usually by cutting off letters from the end, as in U.S. and Gen. (General). Contraction serves the same purpose but is understood strictly to be the shortening of a word by cutting out letters in the middle, engine), AmikaQuery (a flexible content-based search engine), the AmikaClassifier (an automatic content classification engine), and the AmikaGuardian (an organizational policy-based content classification engine). The SDKs are available for OEM integration into any wired or wireless application, messaging platform, server or gateway. Other company products include the Amika(tm) Enterprise Edition Server and AmikaFreedom(tm) for Outlook, which securely deliver abbreviated emails to wireless. Visit the AmikaNow! home page at www.amikanow.com About EDUCOM EDUCOM TS Inc. is an Ottawa-based software development firm, specializing in litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. support and knowledge management. As a specialist in document management, EDUCOM provides clients with dynamic and evolving tools that empower users, protect corporate intellectual property, enhance access to information and reduce capacity issues. EDUCOM has established strategic relations with Essential Computing, Canada-Pacific Technologies, Microsoft, AmikaNow!, VenuSoft and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Visit the EDUCOM home page at www.educom.on.ca All copyrights, trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective holders. |
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