Manufacturing

Cost-Effective Messaging Is a Must for Manufacturers
One third to one half of employees at manufacturing companies are “deskless or non-traditional workers” without an office, cubicle, desk, or Personal Computer (PC). Providing email service to deskless workers results in strong productivity gains as email communication across the supply chain and within operations becomes ubiquitous. As manufacturers consider the challenge of providing effective communication for factory floor workers, the costs of deployment, management, and added infrastructure complexity have made the shift prohibitive.

Manufacturers who have attempted to offer email with their current solution, such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange, are faced with high license fees for these products and advanced collaboration features that their deskless and non-traditional users won’t even use. In addition, the server load for these types of solutions is significant, creating a management nightmare with the added servers needed to offer email to the thousands—or tens of thousands—of deskless or non-traditional workers within the organization. Manufacturers simply don’t have the budget or resources to extend email throughout their organization with these traditional products.

Mirapoint’s Secure Messaging Infrastructure™ Solutions Deliver Cost-Effective Email Services
Mirapoint, the leading secure messaging provider, offers messaging solutions that deliver manufacturers a secure, scalable messaging infrastructure which is affordable, easy to manage and provides factory workers with a robust solution that will improve overall productivity. With Mirapoint manufacturers can build a secure messaging infrastructure that is reliable, highly available and flexible to meet the needs of factory workers, suppliers, business partners, franchisees, or employees who travel extensively with core email and collaboration tools as well as security protection from spam and viruses. Being able to distribute information such as human resource materials, job assignments, schedules, and general announcements via email is not only less costly but it’s faster, easier and more reliable.

Mirapoint messaging appliances are the building blocks of an “always on” messaging infrastructure that addresses security throughout the fabric of the network, not just at the network perimeter. A Mirapoint appliance-based infrastructure can easily scale to meet the growing needs of even the largest manufacturers while maintaining the lowest TCO in the messaging industry and providing a platform for the provision of ne services.

Mirapoint Solutions Are Designed to Meet the Demands of Manufacturers by Providing:

• Proven five-nines reliability (less than 6 minutes of downtime per year)
• SMTP-layer edge blocking reducing unwanted message traffic by 60-80%
• 98% spam catch-rates with virtually zero false positives
• Integrated day zero virus scanning technology
• Outbound content filtering for global policy enforcement and regulatory compliance
• Encrypted transmission of messages from client to the mail server
• Secure, hardened operating system with no known exploits for extra protection against hackers
• Sender authentication to assure messages from unauthorized sources never enter the network
• Standards-based architecture works with major email clients (Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, etc.), legacy email applications, directory servers and storage options
• Collaborative services including calendaring, group scheduling, address book and to-do-lists
• Microsoft Outlook synchronization for a seamless end-user transition

Customer Testimonials

"We found Mirapoint's dedicated email servers to be more cost-effective by a three-to-one margin."
Illinois Tool Works

“We found Mirapoint’s appliance approach to email was the best solution for ST in terms of Internet standards–based design, proven reliability and built–in security.”
STMicroelectronics

"By switching to Mirapoint's purpose-built appliances, we have been able to boost email service reliability and performance, as well as benefit from significant savings by lowering its internal messaging cost of ownership."
Alex Lee

To learn more or to request a free evaluation, call us at (800)937-8118 or email info@mirapoint.com.