STRATO Announces New Open-Xchange Webmail as a Cloud Communication Centre
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Posted on July 13, 2011 at 4:07:01 AM
STRATO Announces New Open-Xchange Webmail as a Cloud Communication Centre
LONDON, July 13, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Integration of social networks and personal interface
STRATO is now offering a new webmail service based on Open-Xchange. The
Communicator from STRATO comes on an intuitive AJAX-based interface. The
customisable interface can also integrate news feeds from other websites and
widgets such as weather reports. Tailored especially for business customers,
the Communicator has mobile access capabilities for smartphones and
groupware features. "The new STRATO Communicator is a communication centre
in the cloud which enables our customers to organise messages, contacts and
appointments from various mailboxes, and manage social media easily and
professionally in one interface," Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO commented.
With the Communicator from STRATO, all new hosting and webshop package
customers are provided with basic mailboxes and users have the opportunity
to upgrade several mailboxes to the premium version. Existing customers will
be transferred to the new Communicator in due course.
With basic mailboxes, STRATO customers can manage emails, appointments,
tasks and contacts. On the interface users can drag-and-drop inboxes, news
feeds and widgets. Anyone with a basic mailbox who would like to trial the
premium features can upgrade their mailbox to a premium account for 90 days
free of charge. If users wish to continue with the premium features for more
than 90 days, they will be charged only GBP4.99* per month for the premium
mailbox. During the test phase, users can cancel the premium features at any
point in the customer service area.
The premium mailboxes in the Communicator include the integration of
social networks, groupware functions, and synchronization of emails,
contacts and appointments with mobile devices. Customers can use their
premium mailboxes to directly access their data from social networks like
LinkedIn and Facebook. For easy communication with friends, colleagues or
supervisors, customers can use the team calendar, secretarial and manager
functions. With the team events calendar, teams can coordinate themselves.
The manager function allows the delegation of tasks to employees and the
secretary function allows assistants to manage the appointments of their
supervisors. Via Exchange-Active-Sync emails, contacts and appointments can
be synchronized automatically with popular mobile devices such as iPhone or
iPad, Android smartphone and tablets, and Windows Mobile phones.
STRATO's mailboxes are guarded by reliable spam protection. STRATO has
developed a patented spam filter with the Humboldt University in Berlin and
the Max Planck Institute for computer science. Ninety percent of STRATO
customers trust STRATO's spam filter according to a representative study**.
In the comparison group only 72% trusted their spam filter. In addition, all
data is stored in Germany and is subject to strict German data protection
regulations.
Notes to Editors:
* Offer to test premium mailboxes 90 days free, then at GBP4.99 per
month, runs until 31 July 2011. Contract period is 12 months and prices
exclude VAT. ** Representative online survey conducted by GfK on behalf of
STRATO, June 2009. Audience polled: 442 STRATO customers, comparison group
of 514 Internet users.
About STRATO
STRATO, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is Europe's second-largest web
hosting and web application provider. Its services include online hard
disks, all-in-one web hosting packages, dedicated and virtual servers and
hosted business software such as online shops. STRATO has over 1.4 million
customer contracts in six countries and hosts 4 million domains in two
ISO-certified, climate-neutral data centres.
Source: STRATO AG
For further information please contact: Shelley Facius, Juice PR Ltd, shelley@juicepr.biz, mobile: +44(0)7802-753653
LONDON, July 13, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
Integration of social networks and personal interface
STRATO is now offering a new webmail service based on Open-Xchange. The
Communicator from STRATO comes on an intuitive AJAX-based interface. The
customisable interface can also integrate news feeds from other websites and
widgets such as weather reports. Tailored especially for business customers,
the Communicator has mobile access capabilities for smartphones and
groupware features. "The new STRATO Communicator is a communication centre
in the cloud which enables our customers to organise messages, contacts and
appointments from various mailboxes, and manage social media easily and
professionally in one interface," Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO commented.
With the Communicator from STRATO, all new hosting and webshop package
customers are provided with basic mailboxes and users have the opportunity
to upgrade several mailboxes to the premium version. Existing customers will
be transferred to the new Communicator in due course.
With basic mailboxes, STRATO customers can manage emails, appointments,
tasks and contacts. On the interface users can drag-and-drop inboxes, news
feeds and widgets. Anyone with a basic mailbox who would like to trial the
premium features can upgrade their mailbox to a premium account for 90 days
free of charge. If users wish to continue with the premium features for more
than 90 days, they will be charged only GBP4.99* per month for the premium
mailbox. During the test phase, users can cancel the premium features at any
point in the customer service area.
The premium mailboxes in the Communicator include the integration of
social networks, groupware functions, and synchronization of emails,
contacts and appointments with mobile devices. Customers can use their
premium mailboxes to directly access their data from social networks like
LinkedIn and Facebook. For easy communication with friends, colleagues or
supervisors, customers can use the team calendar, secretarial and manager
functions. With the team events calendar, teams can coordinate themselves.
The manager function allows the delegation of tasks to employees and the
secretary function allows assistants to manage the appointments of their
supervisors. Via Exchange-Active-Sync emails, contacts and appointments can
be synchronized automatically with popular mobile devices such as iPhone or
iPad, Android smartphone and tablets, and Windows Mobile phones.
STRATO's mailboxes are guarded by reliable spam protection. STRATO has
developed a patented spam filter with the Humboldt University in Berlin and
the Max Planck Institute for computer science. Ninety percent of STRATO
customers trust STRATO's spam filter according to a representative study**.
In the comparison group only 72% trusted their spam filter. In addition, all
data is stored in Germany and is subject to strict German data protection
regulations.
Notes to Editors:
* Offer to test premium mailboxes 90 days free, then at GBP4.99 per
month, runs until 31 July 2011. Contract period is 12 months and prices
exclude VAT. ** Representative online survey conducted by GfK on behalf of
STRATO, June 2009. Audience polled: 442 STRATO customers, comparison group
of 514 Internet users.
About STRATO
STRATO, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is Europe's second-largest web
hosting and web application provider. Its services include online hard
disks, all-in-one web hosting packages, dedicated and virtual servers and
hosted business software such as online shops. STRATO has over 1.4 million
customer contracts in six countries and hosts 4 million domains in two
ISO-certified, climate-neutral data centres.
Source: STRATO AG
For further information please contact: Shelley Facius, Juice PR Ltd, shelley@juicepr.biz, mobile: +44(0)7802-753653