Email News & Articles

Palo Alto Software Inc., an Oregon-based company best known for their business plan software, released their first Software-as-a-Service product in hopes to solve all the world’s email bottlenecking troubles for cheap.

Ever wanted to stay on top of Google search results in an easy and manageable way? Google has long offered its users the ability to subscribe to search results via email. The company has recently announced its intention to soon offer search results via RSS feeds as well. It will be an extension of Google Alerts.

As part of Plone Conference 2008, Sally Kleinfeldt from Jazkarta, a Boston-based Plone provider, gave a presentation on how Jazkarta runs their Plone based business. Sally covered all the tools that Jazkarta uses, not just Plone.

Webinars, in general, are interesting and jam-packed with useful information — the folks at AIIM want to share that experience with users. Two hot topics are up for discussion come October: email management and eDiscovery standardization.

The folks at MarketingProfs are always offering new ways to help organizations and companies learn about digital marketing.

In an effort to guide marketers around the twists and turns of web marketing and digital media, MarketingProfs presents a Digital Marketing Mixer: A Forum on Email, Search and Social Media. The event is scheduled to take place on October 22 — 23, 2008, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Open Text is expanding its ECM portfolio by announcing a new solution for e-mail management targeted at law firms.

The solution — Open Text E-mail Lifecycle Management for Law Firms — combines such features as e-mail filing and archiving and aims to help firms to define, secure and control the e-mail management and retention processes according to compliance mandates and internal policies.

So an integrated marketing platform provider went out and bought a web content management company. That was story several months ago for Alterian and Mediasurface. But now that it’s all said and done, what’s the plan going forward? Alterian lays out their new platform strategy.

So maybe it’s not the end of Microsoft Outlook, but the news coming from Australia this week may be a sign of the changing times for the mighty Marketing machine. Google’s Gmail application has kicked Outlook out of the schools by Australia’s education sector. The New South Wales Department of Education has announced that Gmail will replace Outlook as the email application for over 1.3 million students.

A big win for Google, a big loss for Microsoft.

When Xobni was formed in 2006 by two graduate students, it sought to improve, enhance and otherwise fix Microsoft Outlook.

Now, it’s taking its efforts even further with a new tool that plugs into Outlook. Their software, free and downloadable, indexes all the e-mail in Outlook and makes those messages easily searchable and readily available.

Seems like it was only yesterday we were talking about IBM introducing a Quickr Content Integrator that will help move organizations away from SharePoint. Oh, right it was yesterday…

Today, we see that IBM may actually be wise enough to tackle the SharePoint challenge from both ends. Another IBM partner is helping to bridge the integration gap with SharePoint. The partner — Mainsoft. The solution — SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. If you are one those organizations that has a mixed technology environment — and you are not alone — this solution will go a long way to help.

Cemaphore Systems wants to reshape the way you manage and protect your e-mail content. Their MailShadow for Google Apps (MailShadowG) sets out to do so by immediately synchronizing email, calendars and contacts between Outlook, Exchange and Gmail, making it the first SaaS email continuity and disaster recovery solution utilizing the Google Apps cloud-based services.

With MailShadowG, these business-critical services are now affordable and accessible to end users, SMBs and enterprises.

Heads up United Kingdomites! Gradian Systems Ltd, a UK based enterprise security solutions company specializing in the messaging market, has teamed up with MessageGate Inc. signing a strategic agreement with the organization. This agreement is an exclusive UK distribution partnership between the two organizations that is intended to make MessageGate available in the UK. God save the queen!

MessageGate, a provider of enterprise email governance solutions, says that after doing extensive customer and market research, they have upgraded their product to include features to help customers better control email going into, out of, and across the organization.

Of late, law is getting a lot of help from the enterprise CMS side of the fence.

Interwoven has just announced the availability of a solution for the legal world, which just today also earned a committed pledge from Open Text and Microsoft.

But while OT and Microsoft focus on the document management and collaborative aspects of the lawful entanglement, Interwoven has devoted its energies to search. The new suite improves indexing for email, contracts and other documents, thereby simplifying the process for finding what you need.

Icing on the cake? Hierarchical access privileges enable use of the platform on mobile phones. (We’re going to blame the iPhone for this one.)

The Information Architecture Institute, an organization that works to improve information architecture across networks of organizations through education, research and advocacy, has an amazing idea!

Well, they have lots of great ideas, but in a transparent attempt to be clever, I’m referring to their upcoming IDEA Conference 2007.