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Cloud SMS API: Ready for the internet economy with REST

by Sören Schulte | 29.01.2016 | News, Product News

An increasing number of companies are sending huge amounts of short messages with the aid of cloud services, reliably and quickly to mobile networks around the world. While many companies have thus far preferred to use SOAP interfaces, the trend in the Internet Economy has for some time now been clearly towards REST, short for Representational State Transfer. The advantage: Especially in the internet environment most of the infrastructure required for REST is already available.

Tags: Enterprise SMS // Internet Economy // REST // SOAP

On the road to success: Retarus Group continues to grow strongly

by Sören Schulte | 27.01.2016 | News

Retarus has continued to build on a highly successful fiscal year (FY) 2015: Over the first half of the new business year the global turnover for the group rose to 24 million Euros. The US subsidiary alone improved its turnover by 23.5% through remarkably successful new customer business.

Secure bank communication: DZ BANK Group banks on Retarus

by Sören Schulte | 22.01.2016 | News, Security

With the explosion of data communications, banks will need to ensure that information is transmitted free of error and with a high level of security. Enterprise Messaging Services support financial institutions in securing their communication. DZ BANK AG for example, Germany’s fourth largest bank, uses Retarus’ services across the whole company for a wide and diverse range of tasks and scenarios.

Tags: Banking // DZ BANK // Finance // IT-Security

New security functions for Retarus WebExpress

by Sören Schulte | 20.01.2016 | Product News, Security

With immediate effect administrators will now be able to limit access to Retarus WebExpress in such a way that login is only possible from specific networks. The advantage: Unauthorized persons can now no longer access the web-based portal even if they have valid login data. This allows companies, for instance, to prevent employees who have left the company from downloading confidential data or distribution lists to their private computers.

Retarus Attachment Blocker: Filter emails containing untrustworthy attachments

by Sören Schulte | 15.01.2016 | Product News, Security

Retarus E-Mail Security does not only safeguard you from virus and spam. Also other types of unwanted messages can be easily filtered out: The Retarus Attachment Blocker prevents therefore the receipt of all file attachments which the administrator has classified untrustworthy or which should be precluded from gaining entry to the company infrastructure for other reasons – regardless of their file format.

“We need to talk!”: Enterprise Messaging Trends 2016 (2/2)

by Sabrina Hiller | 14.01.2016 | Business Trends

Starting the New Year, Retarus therefore identified the seven most important trends in Enterprise Messaging. Today you can find out why companies in 2016 will need to put a stronger focus on short innovation cycles, multi-channel communication and All-IP.

Retarus Strengthens UK Market Presence: Conor McGrath Appointed New Country Manager

by Sören Schulte | 12.01.2016 | News

Retarus continues to pursue its global growth strategy by pressing ahead with the expansion of its UK subsidiary. Conor McGrath, takes over the management of all local business with immediate effect.

Tags: Country Manager // growth // UK

The pizza delivery man always rings twice: hot food thanks to messaging services

by Sören Schulte | 07.01.2016 | Business Trends, Cloud, Industry

What does actually happen behind the scenes when an online food order is placed? How do platforms like Delivery Hero ensure that the order is received correctly at the take-away restaurant around the corner? And how can the delivery service ensure that the food arrives at the customer on time – in a hot and enjoyable state? From the order confirmation to the automatically generated delivery service order and on to the authentication – more and more internet portals are relying on Retarus’ managed services to support them in this regard.

“We need to talk!”: Enterprise Messaging Trends 2016 (1/2)

by Sabrina Hiller | 05.01.2016 | Business Trends, Security

To kick off the New Year, Retarus therefore identified the seven most important trends in Enterprise Messaging. In the first part of our two-part blog post you can find out why companies need to focus more on the “workplace of the future”, connected business, Industry 4.0 and security issues.

The special case of special characters: How to prevent losing half the available SMS characters

by Sören Schulte | 28.12.2015 | Product News

160 is the number of characters that fit into a regular SMS. The established SMS standard is employed in the autometed transmission of messages in M2M communications and Industry 4.0: When these messages are sent internationally, it can very quickly happen that a message is restricted to only 70 characters due to the usage of special characters. The solution for this dilemma is called “Smart Replacement”.