Today, more than ever, every organization needs to manage information intelligently, easily, and cost-effectively. Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft® Exchange Server is a next-generation information management solution that unifies archiving, eDiscovery, data protection, recovery, and disaster recovery — all in a single product. Relying on patent-pending software innovations, Mimosa NearPoint helps transform everyday business processes and drive benefits across the organization, from executives to legal counsel, human resources, and IT staff.

A Novel Approach to E-Mail Administration

Focusing on the growing importance of e-mail data as the primary business repository of record, as well as the increasing use of e-mail across the enterprise, Mimosa has developed a new approach to managing critical enterprise information. By integrating its solution on Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office Outlook®, it is addressing archiving, eDiscovery, recovery, and storage management for the largest number of e-mail deployments.

Mimosa NearPoint is completely based on Microsoft technologies, which has enabled the company to accelerate its development and help bring an innovative, next-generation solution to market in record time, in less than 18 months. By standardizing on the Microsoft platform, Mike Ivanov, vice president of Product Marketing at Mimosa, says, “We had access to the highest-quality development environment and a rich set of high-level abstractions. While we initially implemented in hybrid Microsoft .NET, we steadily transitioned to full .NET. We use Web services for client and partner access to Mimosa services.”

Says Ivanov, “We truly believe that our product team understands Microsoft Exchange and Outlook better than just about anyone outside of Microsoft.”

Since the majority of enterprise content is generated using Microsoft tools, tight integration with Microsoft Exchange, Office, SharePoint®, Live Communication Server, and Live Meeting enables Mimosa to provide a comprehensive and seamless solution for addressing information management of enterprise content. Mimosa is partnering with Microsoft to make it simpler for corporations to manage e-mail, documents, and other enterprise content throughout its life cycle.

Foster’s Wine Estates Improves E-Mail Operations, Lowers Costs

Foster’s Wine Estates Americas (formerly Beringer Wine Estates) is a large global organization, with more than 1,000 employees, which relies on e-mail for all business communications. It is one of the most critical systems to keep running well and to restart in the case of a disaster in Foster’s datacenter.

In 2005, Foster’s chose Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server to manage its e-mail operations — improving service levels, storage utilization, and corporate governance. NearPoint empowered the Foster’s organization with limitless e-mail capacity, and self-service access for searching and protecting valuable e-mail data stored locally in .PST files.

NearPoint also benefits Exchange administrators who previously had to manage mailbox quotas, corrupt .PST files, and requests to restore deleted e-mail. Without additional personnel, NearPoint helped Foster’s lower its operating costs by removing these time-consuming, manual processes.

“In one integrated solution, NearPoint allows us to offer seamless self-service access to e-mail information, perform fast recovery of Exchange data, and effectively manage storage growth. All of this with no impact on our Exchange environment,” says Brad Gates, director of IT Infrastructure at Foster’s Wine Estates Americas.

Microsoft Partnership

Mimosa’s status as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner has been invaluable in helping it establish strategic relationships with resellers and integrators in its target regions. Working with these partners in the field, Mimosa has gained new customers in a broad range of verticals.

Mimosa is now focused on integration with Exchange 2007 and Office 2007, to provide a comprehensive solution for information management of all enterprise content.

According to David Marquardt with August Capital, “Mimosa’s solutions are based completely on Microsoft technologies and are tightly integrated with Exchange to best address customer needs for compliance, discovery, and continuity of e-mail.”

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