Retailers Rely on Mirapoint Email Server Appliance to Better Communicate with Deskless Workforce.CHICAGO -- Retailers Like Alex Lee Alex Lee (born March 16, 1970 in Bristol, England), is a British musician. Alex has played guitar and keyboards for the bands The Blue Aeroplanes, Strangelove, Suede and Placebo amongst others. , Mollie mollie or molly, New World fish of the genus Mollienesia, in the same family as the guppy (see killifish). Mollies are found from the E and central United States to Argentina. Stone's Markets and Sonic Drive-In Sonic Corporation NASDAQ: SONC (operating name: Sonic Drive-In) is an American fast-food restaurant chain based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that creates the drive-in diner feel of the 1950s, complete with carhops who often wear roller skates. Utilize Mirapoint to Build a Secure and Scalable Messaging Infrastructure That Engages All Employees, Regardless of Location Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, today announced that a rapidly growing number of retail businesses rely on Mirapoint Message Server appliances A self-contained computer system specialized for network use. Its applications are pre-installed, and access to setup and configuration is via a Web browser. Server appliances may provide a single application or several applications; for example, a single device may provide file server, to extend reliable and cost-effective email communications to all workers throughout their organizations. Alex Lee, Mollie Stone's Markets and Sonic Drive-In are just a few of the retail customers that use Mirapoint to build a secure and scalable email messaging infrastructure that engages all employees in an organization, regardless of their location. As a result, these retailers better communicate with all workers, including their deskless work force. In many retailing organizations, the deskless workers are overlooked for email communication due to sporadic computer access. Yet the efficiencies of electronic communication cannot be denied and deskless workers must not be excluded from corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. at the expense of productivity and morale. "Within the retail industry, email messaging is a common, de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. means to communicate with employees and external partners," said Maurene Caplan Grey, Founder and Principal Analyst at Grey Consulting. "Therefore, retailers should treat their email system as core infrastructure -- and ensure that it is dependable, extensible and secure." "At Mollie Stone's Markets, we take employee communication seriously and the deployment of Mirapoint's Message Servers has made communication with all workers a reality, regardless of where they work," said David Bennett, Co-owner of Mollie Stone's Markets. "Our clerks are not in front of computers, but moving around the stores and providing hands-on customer service. With Mirapoint's messaging appliances we can communicate much more quickly and easily with the entire workforce and these employees are now more engaged in the company than ever." Mirapoint email and email security appliances Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances. provide a communication platform without the high costs of deployment, management and added infrastructure complexity that have made legacy email applications cost and time prohibitive for retailers. With other enterprise-grade solutions, retailers are faced with high license fees and ongoing maintenance costs, along with many expensive, seldom-used collaboration features that their workforce likely will never use. Mirapoint messaging appliances contain unique Class of Service controls for streamlined configuration of different filters, rule sets and features for various types of users. This allows retailers to meet the distinct messaging needs of all types of users ranging from store-centric employees, to suppliers, to "road warrior A person who frequently travels with laptop and cellphone. " employees. As a result, the right email functionality is given to the right group of employees. Mirapoint is the only vendor in the industry with proven email server See mail server. , archiving and security appliances that offer carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ). Mirapoint's Message Server is the industry's only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management. The industry's first email archiving See e-mail archiving. appliance that employs corporate policies to index and organize messages, Mirapoint's ComplianceVault appliance reduces the cost and complexity of archiving email by eliminating space-wasting spam and duplicated email content, as well as categorizing messages for easy search and retrieval. Mirapoint's award-winning RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, with spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent. Combined, Mirapoint appliances deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide. About Mirapoint Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com. (C) 2006 Mirapoint, Inc. All rights reserved. All company and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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