Messaging
Commtouch

With Commtouch, the world’s leading provider of outsourced e-mail and messaging solutions, running their e-mail systems, companies are free to focus on running their core business.



With e-mail rapidly replacing traditional communications channels as he low-cost, effective and preferred means of transmitting business communications, many are turning to an outsourced solution, to gain access to the best and most secure technologies, for the lowest investment and maintenance costs.

Since 1991, Commtouch has been in the forefront of e-mail and applications development in the US and abroad. Its on-line solutions enable the world’s largest corporations, service providers and destination sites to outsource their e-mail and messaging operations. The company currently serves more than 16 million subscribers, through 400 partners. ‘Powered by Commtouch‘ operates in 25 languages, in more than 80 countries around he globe.
Commtouch provides comprehensive, completely integrated solutions, with some of the most powerful on-line services and premium applications presently available. These include on-line calendaring, unified messaging integration with voice, fax and pager, and wireless connectivity. Its awarding-winning technology has been selected by some of the most respected organizations in the world for their e-mail services.
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Headquartered in Silicon Valley, with an R&D center in Israel and offices worldwide, Commtouch employs more than 350 people. The company, led by Chairman and CEO Gideon Mantel, has received several industry awards for its commercial and consumer e-mail applications.

Commtouch has formed strategic alliances with several leading companies. In 1999, Microsoft made a $20 million investment in Commtouch, as part of a strategic alliance with Commtouch. Go2Net, Inc. and Vulcan Ventures, Inc. have also made a $20 million investment, as part of a comprehensive distribution and marketing agreement.

Revenues for 1999 were $4.3 million, up from $389,000 in 1998. Gross profit was $608,000 in 1999, up from a gross loss of $180,000 in 1998.

Whatever the customer’s needs, Commtouch aims to meet them. Corporations turning to Commtouch include large organizations with their own e-mail systems that have found the cost of building and maintaining them too expensive, and smaller companies with limited resources.
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"Outsourced e-mail services such as ours often drastically reduce infrastructure and support costs, providing 100% payback in less than one year," states Mantel. "And some customers, focusing on their on-line brand and revenue generation, wish to provide their on-line visitors with e-mail services. Simply providing on-line customers a free, private-label e-mail account can increase visits to Web sites and expand sales. Because e-mail is such an open, ubiquitous tool, it gives our clients a wide array of benefits and applications to support their business objectives."

Mantel notes that one of the biggest challenges facing companies today is managing the most limited resource of all – time. The great advantage of e-mail is that it helps reduce communication time. Any company transacting international business can point to the benefits e-mail provides, in communicating quickly across time zones," he says. " As technologies become more and more sophisticated, there will be an increasing trend for companies to outsource their e-mail and messaging applications to third party service providers, such as Commtouch."




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