There’s only 24 days until Christmas: To shorten the remaining time until December 24, we will present you each business day a different Christmas song on the Retarus blog – expressed in Emojis. Get into the spirit of Christmas by riddling, challenging your family, your colleagues and friends, hum along, get into the swing of Christmas …
Email archiving and encryption – working in tandem
Regulatory requirements make it mandatory for companies to archive their digital correspondence compliantly for many years. In an age when business emails are increasingly transmitted in encrypted form, this is often much more easily said than done. At first glance audit-proof archiving and encrypted emails appear to be mutually exclusive. Retarus E-Mail Security allows IT managers to easily overcome both challenges simultaneously.
Tags: Email Encryption // Email Security // Enterprise Email Archive
Seamless communication processes via the SAP Cloud
Be it offers, orders, customer or delivery documents, alerts, invoices or transport requests: in many companies business communication still takes place via decentralized infrastructures, inflexible solutions or outdated equipment. However, things are moving. A rising number of companies have realized that also with regard to these business processes, the solution lies in the cloud: This allows companies to bundle and consolidate communication processes across all channels, and send data and messages directly from their SAP systems.
Tags: Messaging Services for SAP // SAP // SNC
Retarus boosts presence in APAC
Next Step Asia: Retarus is strengthening its presence in Asia thus continuing to expand its position as a leading global provider of professional messaging services. The strategic expansion of its Asian subsidiary in Singapore is meant to boost the messaging service provider’s business in the APAC region, allowing the company to even better cater to the needs of local businesses.
Digitalization: Opportunity or risk for banks and insurers?
In view of strict regulatory requirements, low-interest politics and intense cost pressure many finance institutes are neglecting a crucial challenge – the ever accelerating progress of digitalization. However, in order to fulfill the individual needs of their customers and to stay competitive over the long term, banks should start to develop appropriate digital strategies as quickly as possible.
Tags: Banking // Digitalization // Finance // Finance Summit
M2M and A2P SMS: Business communication between applications, people and machines
Messenger services aside: communicating via SMS continues to enjoy a very high degree of popularity in everyday business. As practical as SMS may be as a notification channel, like any other means of communication it only really develops its full potential when used as a tool for dialogue. When using Retarus SMS to Applications, for instance, incoming short messages are automatically pushed into the corresponding business application.
Tags: Digitalization // Enterprise SMS // Industry 4.0
Gartner Hype Cycle: When a trend is really a trend
For more than 20 years the analysts at Gartner have been using their “Hype Cycle” to throw light on the development of technological trends. But what do Gartner’s experts say about cloud fax services? Have they already arrived at the “Plateau of Productivity” or is the “Trough of Disillusionment” just around the corner?
Tags: Cloud Fax // Gartner // IoT // Sample Vendor
Retail sales success: The means of communication makes all the difference
In order to keep all staff up to date regarding sales and marketing campaigns, retailers must rely on communication channels that function effectively. But which channel is most suitable for this task? How can the company ensure that all branch offices are informed simultaneously and dependably? Multi-channel messaging platform Retarus WebExpress is able to cover the widest imaginable range of scenarios.
Tags: Employee Communications // Retail // Retarus WebExpress // Wholesale
Retarus opens new data center in Frankfurt: Expansion of the infrastructure
With the goal of continuing to ensure maximum control over sensitive data and the highest levels of availability for the future, Retarus is committed to the ongoing expansion of its global infrastructure. That’s why it recently decided to expand its existing hub in Frankfurt into a fully-fledged, autonomous data center. In addition to this new site Retarus also operates data centers in Germany, Switzerland, the US, Asia as well as in Australia.
Tags: Business Continuity // datacenter // Frankfurt // Infrastructure
Large E-Mail Handling: What spam and large file attachments have in common
Email users are seldom pleased to suddenly discover email attachments of several megabytes on their smartphones, while providers and companies justifiably fear that their internal email architecture will be overloaded by “mega mails” – a drawback that large file attachments share with spam messages. This means that a solution is required which fulfills the needs of users and IT administrators alike.
Tags: Email // Email Security // Large Email Handling // Spam