Email & Instant Messaging

After being in the market for five years, Google's enterprise Gmail is building momentum with commercial organisations with more than 5000 seats worldwide, and it now presents a viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange Online and other cloud email services, according to analysts Gartner, Inc.

Central email signature management for companies using Google Apps is now provided as part of Red Earth Software’s Policy Patrol product.

Aerospace company Hawker Pacific Australia has turned to a web-based management tool to help take control over company email

ProperSync has announced the release of ProperSync 1.3 for Microsoft Outlook, the latest version of the add-in that allows users to synchronise personal calendars, contacts, and task lists with SharePoint, optimising team collaboration by merging data into one location.

A beta version of a free tool to scan social network users’ accounts and detect spam, scams and other e-threats, has been launched by BitDefender, Safego for Twitter.

Scinaptic has added new support for Office 365 and private cloud environments to the latest release of OnePlaceMail, its SharePoint/Office/Outlook integration solution, which is also available in a free Express edition for the first time.

LiveOffice Outlook Email Connector for Salesforce is a new application that provides a complete view of all email, attachments and Chatter posts associated with an Account, Contact, Lead or Opportunity in Salesforce.com without requiring the user to take any action, perform any manual syncs or download a plug in.

Enterprise social networking company Yammer has announced a range of plug-ins that connect intranet and business applications with Yammer and add Yammer feeds to these tools. The Yammer Connect plug-ins are designed to extend Yammer's social functionality across the applications in which employees are already spending their time.

Axway has launched its MailGate 5.0 solution which combines email network protection, policy-based content filtering and automated encryption with disaster recovery and high availability capabilities. The product is designed to protect the entire email network and reduce infrastructure costs and the liabilities associated with unsecured and unmanaged email communications.

A recent international study commissioned by Mimecast found that 79 per cent of people send work emails from their personal email accounts, with 1 in 5 saying they do this on a regular basis, creating email archiving issues for compliance.

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