Moores Rowland embraces Mimecast with significant success

Issued by Global Research Partners for Mimecast
Johannesburg, 23 Jul 2007

Mimecast, a provider of e-mail management solutions and services, today announced that Moores Rowland, an accounting and business services organisation with offices across South Africa, had adopted Mimecast to help increase the effectiveness and efficiency of how the group's e-mail is managed.

"To us as a professional organisation, e-mails are mission-critical and we had a major issue with them," commented Glenn Hurlow, Group IT Manager for Moores Rowland.

"We were maintaining extensive lists of blocked content and file types, ensuring virus pattern files were updated and monitoring mailboxes for abuse of company policies, and despite these laborious measures, large amounts of spam were still getting through to our organisation."

"In addition, the IT department had to constantly retrieve legitimate attachments that had fallen foul of our content scanning engines and were subsequently rejected," continued Hurlow. "One of our associate firms in France added to the problem by sending out large amounts of bilingual e-mail that had the non-French speaking content scanners blocking the mail."

"Following the very rapid and successful implementation of Mimecast, our anti-spam measures have been simplified, since the Mimecast reputation-based scanning system allows users to receive e-mail and attachments intact. In addition, the IT department's time has been optimised by the elimination of unnecessary retrievals of blocked mail items.

"Spam has become a thing of the past and employee abuse drastically reduced. This has resulted in increased productivity and maximised bandwidth usage," concluded Hurlow. "In addition, we have benefited from a return on investment from the installation of Mimecast that we didn't even contemplate."

"Moores Rowland has had similar experiences to other delighted Mimecast customers," added Garth Wittles, MD of Mimecast SA. "Customers who purchased Mimecast to solve their e-mail hygiene problems also experienced other unexpected benefits, such as e-mail compliance, continuity and/or availability and generally, a much simpler overall e-mail management scenario. In addition, the storage on-demand facility removes any further purchasing decisions and complexity, thus, problem solved."

For further information, please contact Mimecast RSA: tel 011 258-5300, fax 011 258-5339, e-mail info@mimecast.co.za.

Mimecast

Mimecast is a fast-growing Web 2.0 success story. Founded in the UK in late 2002, the company's proprietary 'software as a service' platform provides businesses around the world with mission-critical e-mail management services. Mimecast provides the industry's only comprehensive enterprise e-mail management solution from a single scalable Web-based platform. Clients save significant time and expense by connecting their existing in-house e-mail systems to Mimecast. They benefit from a range of services, including long term e-mail storage, search and information management, security services, including anti-spam and anti-virus, compliance, policy control and risk management, business continuity, and e-mail marketing.

Services on the Mimecast Network are sold by leading technology resellers and on a direct basis into strategic accounts. Mimecast consistently beats competitive alternatives by offering a broader solution, better value for money, more effective security, faster performance, and by placing significantly greater levels of administrative control in our clients' hands. In contrast, established first-generation 'managed service providers' competing in Mimecast's chosen market face significant challenges due to their inflexible and fragmented technology, high third party licensing costs and outmoded service delivery strategies.

Mimecast's customers include AFGRI, Barnard Jacobs Mellet Holdings, De Beers Retail, Eurosteel, Gold Fields, Heraeus Chemicals, Hollard Insurance, International Marketing Council, Markinor, Moores Rowland, Mortimer Harvey, National Union of Mine Workers, RandGold Resources, Transnet Group and Touchline Media.

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