Mimecast, the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, today announced its new e-mail archiving service for BlackBerry smartphones.
The new Mimecast service aims to increase mobile workforce productivity by giving users access to their entire personal archive through their standard BlackBerry e-mail interface. Users will be able to search and view their Mimecast personal archive from a BlackBerry handset, copy e-mail from the archive to their inbox, and reply and forward archived messages.
Mimecast's BlackBerry archive search service is the only solution of its kind that integrates directly with the BlackBerry e-mail application, obviating the need for users to launch another application or go to a Web page to find information within their archive.
Instead they can use single click search shortcuts for finding e-mails with similar subject fields or from the same sender in a similar way to the native BlackBerry search facility. They can also take advantage of more granular search features such as fully flexible date ranges and the ability to specify email components for search, such as attachments, e-mail body or message headers.
“E-mail is the primary application for the vast majority of business communications nowadays, and users expect to be able to access their live and stored e-mail 24x7, whether at the office, at home, or on the go,” said Barry Gill, product marketing manager at Mimecast.
Sheila Childs, research director at Gartner's Storage Strategies and Technologies Group, said: “While the technical and legal aspects of e-mail archiving are the primary drivers for the strong growth this sector has seen over the last couple of years, the importance of the end-user experience should not be overlooked. The ability to access a ten-year historical archive rapidly is not only a basic requirement for compliance, it is also a potentially significant productivity tool, particularly if it is tightly integrated with the interfaces users are familiar with. Naturally, we tend to think of e-mail archiving fitting within desktop clients, but more organisations are beginning to demand that this functionality be extended to mobile device users as well.”
The archive service add-on follows the launch of Mimecast Continuity Services for BlackBerry smartphones in April 2010, which allows enterprise managers to provide uninterrupted e-mail access to users in the event of a Microsoft Exchange outage or BlackBerry Enterprise Server failure. Mimecast is a BlackBerry Alliance Select Member, recognised for promoting the highest level of innovation and contributing to the strength of the market.
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