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December 9, 2024 – Retarus, a leading international provider of secure and high-performance communications for business-critical processes, has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Fax 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51812124. December 2024). The IDC MarketScape report aims to support organizations in choosing the right partners to address their mission-critical digital fax use cases and advance their digital transformation initiatives.

October 22, 2024 – Retarus has attained TX-RAMP Level 2 Certification, the highest level available under the current TX-RAMP framework. Retarus’ Cloud Fax Solution is now certified to process, store or transmit agency data that is determined to be confidential and either a moderate or high impact information resource.

July 9, 2024 – Telefónica’s FARO project, which aims to replace copper lines with fiber optic, represents a challenge for a lot of companies and organizations whose communications still rely on analog faxing. Given the urgent need for adaptation, Retarus is considered the ideal option thanks to its cloud faxing solutions, which not only eliminate dependency on copper lines, but also offer a series of advantages and benefits for companies that are digitalizing.

July 2, 2024 – Omnicell has chosen the Enterprise SMS solution from Retarus to help pharmacies improve communication with their patients. Using this cloud messaging solution gives partnering pharmacies full control over their SMS communication.

May 22, 2024 – Retarus, global provider of Cloud solutions for Fax, SMS, Transactional Email, and Email Security, has announced the elevation of its National Security Framework (Esquema Nacional de Seguridad = ENS) certification from medium to high, achieving the highest possible level of this certification. This better positions Retarus to handle the most stringent demands of highly-regulated industries, including banking, finance, telecommunications, and public administration.

March 26, 2024 – Retarus has expanded its collaboration with longstanding carrier partner ThinkTel. Independent connections between multiple data centers in Canada and Germany makes the worldwide Retarus fax network even more resilient in the event of a disruption and ensures optimum quality for last mile delivery. All Retarus Cloud Fax customers communicating to or from Canada stand to benefit.

March 19, 2024 – IFCO, the international market leader in reusable packaging containers for fresh grocery products, now uses Retarus Cloud Fax for its ordering and billing processes. Suppliers using IFCO will also have the opportunity to place their orders for reusable packaging containers via the Retarus service. In this way, IFCO is able to offer its sustainable food product logistics more efficiently while also fulfilling the requirements of its global customer base.

January 22, 2024 – The experts at Retarus, specialist provider of enterprise-level cloud services for messaging, email security, and business integration, have identified three trends which are set to have a sustained impact on digital communication in 2024. Artificial intelligence, in particular, will play an increasingly significant role over the coming months, enabling companies to work more efficiently and achieve a competitive advantage.

November 27, 2023 – The IDC MarketScape report evaluated 28 vendors worldwide on their strategy and product capabilities, measuring a range of criteria such as delivery, customer satisfaction, functionality, research and development pace and portfolio benefits.

August 24, 2023 – Communicating with employees, partners, and passengers is a key challenge for airlines. Suffice it to say that to keep airport operations running at maximum efficiency, the staff of major airlines send and receive on average hundreds of thousands of fax documents and SMS messages per month from their respective hubs, directly from their computers. For example, pilots and cabin crew are informed of their shifts via the so-called “crew fax” and their hotel rooms are also reserved via fax. Furthermore, employees are notified about last-minute changes to the flight plan or cabin crew via SMS messages to their phone. To top it all off, the hub management systems also generate faxes containing orders, delivery documents and confirmations.

July 27, 2023 – Munich-based enterprise messaging provider Retarus has entered into a partnership with Germany’s largest IT system integrator Bechtle. With immediate effect, Retarus’ highly flexible cloud solutions for email security and enterprise messaging have been included in the portfolio offered by the Bechtle Group in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Benelux. This allows Bechtle’s customers to benefit from tailor-made cloud services for business communication, which feature the highest levels of data sovereignty. Additionally, there are already plans to expand the collaboration – Retarus Integration and Automation Services are set to be incorporated into the Bechtle portfolio in the near future.

July 13, 2023 – Retarus, global provider of enterprise cloud solutions for messaging, email security, and business integration, continues to pursue its strategy of international expansion by taking its Spanish sales organization to the next level with the announcement of two new roles, each carrying distinct responsibility for direct sales and the partner business.

May 31, 2023 – Retarus, a global provider of Enterprise Cloud solutions for Messaging, Email Security, and Business Integration, has recently opened a new office in Hingham, Massachusetts, USA to accommodate the rapid growth of its sales team and to expand the company’s global footprint. This is the second office launched in the New England region, joining the established regional office in Vermont.

March 21, 2023 – Digital fax has evolved to adapt to business’ digital transformation needs. Even in 2023, the fax continues to add value by offering automated options and making it easier to digitize previously analog workflows, thus increasing operational efficiency. More specifically, companies can now use cloud-based fax services and modern fax APIs, which allow them to take full advantage of this secure and legally binding communication channel. With this in mind, Retarus - one of the main international providers of Enterprise Cloud solutions for Messaging, E-mail Security, and Business Integration - has identified three reasons why the fax will continue to be an essential tool for many organizations in the coming year.

March 3, 2023 – The energy consumed by the Munich-based provider of cloud services comprises roughly 80 percent electrical power and 20 percent fossil fuels, the latter mainly dedicated to heating the company’s offices. The Criterion office building at Aschauer Straße 30 is predominantly heated by way of district heating, the production of which is not entirely climate neutral. For 2023, it is estimated that the emissions for the company’s share of total heated floor space will amount to around 52 tons of CO2 equivalents. Retarus is compensating for these unavoidable emissions by purchasing carbon offset certificates from the Stadtwerke München (Munich’s municipal utilities company). In this way, the company’s consumption is offset by emission-reducing activities elsewhere.

January 20, 2023 – POLYAS, a market leader in online elections, now sends out electronic ballot documents using Retarus’ Transactional Email. The Munich-based enterprise cloud service provider ensures that the authentication via email for digital voting meets the strict security requirements of the German electoral law, the federal office for information security (BSI), as well as complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). POLYAS additionally uses a solution for generating passwords securely, which was developed in concert with the experts at Retarus.

January 3, 2023 – From the war in Ukraine to supply chain crisis and deglobalization, economic systems are currently under considerable strain. Meanwhile, rising inflation and the prevailing shortage of qualified staff exacerbates the situation. To ensure their businesses can continue running undisrupted in the face of these challenges, companies need to rethink their communication processes accordingly. Munich-based enterprise cloud services provider Retarus has identified five trends which companies should bear in mind for their business communication in 2023.

August 31, 2022 – In their recent “On the Radar” report, research and advisory group Omdia rates the Retarus Secure Email Platform as a secure and flexible all-in-one solution for business email, which is excellently equipped to meet the needs of the market and deal with cyber threats. According to Omdia, the cloud solution offered by Retarus provides a comprehensive set of functions to ensure security and compliance for inbound and outbound email traffic and is especially commended for its modular design. The report can now be downloaded free of charge from retarus.

March 23, 2022 – Retarus, the Munich-based provider of cloud services around the globe, has made over 100,000 euros immediately available for aid projects related to the war in Ukraine. This amounts to roughly 220 euros per employee. All 13 of Retarus’ country organizations, including Romania, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the USA, are receiving a share of the total donation proportional to their number of employees to support whichever local projects they prefer – this may take the form of purchasing and donating goods such as medicines, hygiene products, baby food, blankets, and much more, or even financing the transportation of aid supplies to the Ukrainian border. In Munich, where Retarus is headquartered, the company has also made its company apartment available to a refugee family which has fled from Ukraine.

December 2, 2021 – As it continues with its exceptional growth, retarus (North America) Inc. has opened a new location in the heart of Manhattan, New York. At 307 5th Avenue in Midtown, this office accompanies the US Headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey and New England Regional Office in Vermont, and brings Retarus closer to its customers, prospects, partners and employees in New York City.

October 7, 2021 – With its new Trace & Recover service, Retarus offers an innovative service to benefit companies that send emails directly from their business applications. The service complements Retarus Transactional Email by caching transactional emails securely in an intelligent short-term storage – such as to allow service and contact center staff to send the messages again effortlessly at any time should the need arise. This is especially beneficial to companies with complex application landscapes and workflows, who gain substantial value from the time and cost saved as well as achieving significantly higher customer satisfaction. The new service is immediately available as part of the modular Retarus Secure Email Platform.

August 5, 2021 – Retarus has continued to grow impressively, even during the coronavirus pandemic. The fiscal year 2021, which ended in June, saw a revenue growth to more than 60 million euros for the first time. This represents an 11 percent increase over the previous year’s turnover and the seventh consecutive year of record results for Retarus. The sustained growth is reflected in the company’s workforce. With global staff now exceeding 450 employees, Retarus has grown by more than 10% in comparison to the previous year and is still hiring.

July 28, 2021 – Retarus continues to grow its Romanian development center. The Romanian subsidiary has been on a positive growth trajectory since its launch in December 2019. As a result, Retarus is now searching for more employees for the Timişoara office in the areas of software development, service and support, technical product management, and EDI implementation. Retarus has also recently relocated to larger offices which are centrally located in Timişoara and equipped with all the latest mod cons.

April 20, 2021 – Retarus, the global provider of cloud messaging solutions, has announced its partnership with AppSmart®, the leading source to find, buy, and manage all business technology services. The two leading companies are collaborating to advance the reach of Retarus’ cloud solutions both domestically and internationally for global enterprise and SMB customers.

March 26, 2021 – Retarus, the global provider of cloud messaging solutions, today announced its partnership with MicroCorp, a leading national master agent for telecommunications, data center, and cloud services. The two leading companies are collaborating to integrate their cloud solutions for global enterprise and SMB customers.

February 11, 2021 – Internationally active companies would be well advised to urgently check the state of their data protection and make certain that the digitalization of their communication processes also ensures compliance with the GDPR. Cloud service provider Retarus, which for decades has been supporting companies to process their communication data in compliance with the law, points out the key factors which need to be considered.

January 27, 2021 – Retarus, the global provider of enterprise cloud services, has launched an intelligent new service enabling companies to better organize and administrate all inbound messages as they arrive: The Bounce and Response Manager. This new option gives Retarus Transactional Email users a powerful service for sending high mail volumes straight from their business applications and more control over the inbound channel.

December 7, 2020 – In recent months it has become clearly evident, just how crucial it is for IT processes to function well and reliably communicate with patients. Now key healthcare projects have entrusted Retarus with contributing to the success of their vaccination efforts with its Transactional Email Services and Enterprise SMS Services.

June 30, 2020 – According to industry analysts, the current events have shifted the mindset and requirements within the healthcare industry. To meet their strict compliance and service level needs, companies are on the lookout for a secure, fast and reliable communications platform. Retarus has the unique solution to meet the healthcare industry’s needs.

May 28, 2020 – Cloud services provider Retarus has responded to strong demand for their Retarus Enterprise Communication Platforms by stepping up its recruitment drive for new employees. Over the current business year, 2020, Retarus plans to expand its staff considerably by more than 100 additional employees. Since the company was founded in 1992, it has never before hired as many new employees in a single year.

May 20, 2020 – As online business continues to grow impressively, systems at the companies involved are generating ever more order confirmations, shipping details, and invoices – in short, there is a substantial increase in transactional emails. However, the proliferation of such emails can have a negative impact on the sender reputation of the company sending them. As a result, important records or messages may get stuck in spam filters, meaning that they are no longer able to reach their recipients’ inboxes reliably. This has can unsettle customers, slow down processes, erode trust and bring about additional costs. The Email Deliverability Guide created by Munich-based cloud service provider Retarus shows how this can be prevented.

March 13, 2020 – As the wave of COVID-19 infections grow, an increasing number of companies are restricting business trips for their employees and requesting staff instead to opt for home office and virtual meetings. To handle the resulting communication with staff, Munich cloud service provider Retarus is now granting its existing customers free use of its market-leading multichannel messaging service, Retarus WebExpress. With this one-to-many service, enterprises can keep their employees well-informed about the latest developments with timely yet personalized messages. This free limited offer is available until April 30th, 2020. Customers can find out more about this opportunity from their Retarus representatives int their local country organization.

February 25, 2020 – At HIMSS 2020 (Orlando FL from 9 to 13 March), Retarus a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Services, will present the strengths of cloudification and digital transformation through its one-stop shop enterprise solutions. Companies are modernizing their communication platform through cloudification of their infrastructure, enhancing efficiency through digitized automated processes, as well to ensure compliance with HITRUST and HIPAA. At HIMSS, Retarus will be unveiling the biggest turning point in healthcare communications, which will certainly take healthcare companies to the next level.

January 31, 2020 – Munich-based cloud service provider Retarus has successfully completed the TISAX audit, certifying the processing of information for the automotive sector in compliance with high security requirements. TISAX, which stands for "Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange", was developed by the automobile industry as a common standard for information security. It aims to ensure that all participants in the value chain have similar levels of IT security.

December 11, 2019 – IDT, a long-standing integration partner of Kodak Alaris, is collaborating with Retarus to provide a fully integrated, easy to use “Scan to Fax” solution. The network-connected offering eliminates monthly dedicated phone line charges while offering an alternative to analog fax machines and bulky multi-functional printers (MFPs) that require IT support and incur maintenance, per-click, and consumables charges.

November 28, 2019 – Munich-based cloud service provider Retarus has founded a new subsidiary in Romania, retarus (România) s.r.l., and is set to expand its operations in the country. From its Timișoara office, Retarus runs a service center for international customers of its Retarus Business Integration Services alongside departments for development and quality assurance.

August 30, 2019 – Munich-based cloud service provider retarus GmbH has added secure document handling to its API for high-volume email transmission, including automated encryption of attached files and the option of providing a template for email jobs detailing the design of the message (templating). Along with these technical advances, the service is being strategically repositioned at the same time.

May 8, 2019 – Retarus, a global enterprise cloud provider, today announced its endeavor to increase business agility by offering its services through CenturyLink, the second largest domestic communications provider serving global enterprise customers.

November 7, 2018 – Alex Dosch and Stefan Rath return to Retarus and assume responsibility for sales worldwide.

November 6, 2018 – Digital fax solutions for multifunctional printers (MFPs) from Lexmark and Retarus are now available worldwide.

May 9, 2018 – Retarus, global cloud messaging provider, today announced a new whitepaper on Healthcare and Secure Document Delivery with an emphasis on the future of fax.

May 2, 2018 – The communication interface BC-SMTP, used in the Retarus Messaging Services and the Faxolution 6 for SAP S/4HANA service, has been officially “SAP Certified”.

December 5, 2017 – Improved customer loyalty by way of communication platforms

October 5, 2017 – Retarus expert opinion on the EU’s plans for an improved rapid alert system for product recalls

September 13, 2017 – Retarus today announced its sponsorship and presence at the CarrierXchange event in Midway, UT from September 18-20.

September 11, 2017 – Retarus again named a Sample Vendor for Enterprise Level Cloud Faxing in Gartner Hype Cycle for Imaging and Print Services

July 12, 2017 – Implementation of Retarus Email-to-Fax boosts internal efficiency and drives digitisation for Malaysia’s leading healthcare provider

June 19, 2017 – The new location brings Retarus closer to new and existing clients in the region, facilitating the ability to deliver a better customer experience overall.

May 26, 2017 – In a recent webinar, Retarus touched upon the critical requirements for enterprise cloud messaging providers.

May 4, 2017 – The cloud messaging provider will be at the Denver Marriot Tech Center and Arrowhead Golf Course, on May 8th and 9th in Denver, CO

March 30, 2017 – Retarus announced today its attendance at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo on April 10-13.

March 6, 2017 – Retarus’ Group CEO, Martin Hager, is scheduled to speak at the 8th Annual AmCham Germany Business Day on Thursday, March 16, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

February 15, 2017 – Retarus is again bringing its global cloud messaging portfolio to the 2017 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, from February 19-23, 2017.

January 25, 2017 – “What matters is that the information arrives.”

January 12, 2017 – Retarus, a global leader in cloud enterprise messaging services, announced today its attendance at the American Society for Automation in Pharmacy’s (ASAP) 2017 Annual Conference.

January 3, 2017 – The newly acquired master agreement award allows participating U.S. states, territories, and authorized public entities to access and procure Retarus’ cloud managed solutions expeditiously.

November 21, 2016 – Maximum performance with high availability

November 15, 2016 – Voted "Top Cloud Messaging Provider", Retarus won the CarrierSales Partners Choice award, adding another prestigious laurel to its prize-list.

November 4, 2016 – The action-packed conference presented an opportunity for Retarus to engage with over a 1,000 attendees including Intelisys’ Sales Partners, Supplier Partners and other market leaders in cloud and telecom industry.

October 27, 2016 – The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology set up the "German Accelerator" program to support innovative enterprises in the high-tech and digital sectors to further strengthen their market positions in the United States.

October 21, 2016 – Migrating its fax communication to the cloud allows Henner to cut costs and optimize resources.

October 6, 2016 – retarus Inc. today announced its participation in National Procurement Institute's 48th Annual Conference and Products Exposition taking place this year from Oct. 9th - Oct. 12th in Colorado Springs.

September 29, 2016 – Vizru, a provider of an intelligent business automation platform, announced today its strategic partnership with Retarus, a leading provider of enterprise messaging services. The combined solution will bring together the individual strengths of each company, where secure messaging meets innovative business automation.

August 30, 2016 – Cloud Fax Services are replacing fax server infrastructures

August 9, 2016 – Instant InfoSystems (IIS) will offer Retarus‘ global cloud-based solutions, expanding their ability to take advantage of the increased need for enterprise quality hosted services around the world.

May 31, 2016 – Effective immediately, the attorney will advise Retarus’ senior management on all strategic issues regarding international law and regulatory provisions, as well as compliance requirements.

March 11, 2016 – Intelisys' Sales Partners now have access to award winning global cloud services powered by Retarus.

March 9, 2016 – Retarus has compiled a list of 5 tips, which companies need to bear in mind when migrating to Microsoft 365.

January 21, 2016 – Secure bank communication from a single source

January 11, 2016 – Conor McGrath appointed new UK country manager

January 4, 2016 – Global Enterprise Messaging provider Retarus has identified seven trends that will have a decisive impact on corporate B2B communications in 2016

November 9, 2015 – Retarus has been listed in the Gartner report “Hype Cycle for Imaging and Print Services” as a sample vendor for “Enterprise-Level Cloud Faxing”.

October 28, 2015 – New data center in Frankfurt

July 23, 2015 – Business figures for FY 2015: Retarus achieves record results

May 11, 2015 – Strong US market growth continues

October 29, 2014 – Retarus is proud to announce today its strategic partnership with Clarus Communications, a leading telecommunications provider.

October 24, 2014 – Retarus key in helping companies consolidate their IT infrastructure

October 16, 2014 – Retarus announced today its strategic partnership with the leading provider of solutions for voice, data, wireless and cloud services.

July 18, 2014 – Retarus Group reported year-on-year revenue growth of 15%

July 1, 2014 – Retarus announced today its strategic partnership

June 6, 2014 – Air rescue base coordinates helicopter crew via SMS

March 31, 2014 – Retarus’ global data centers and communication services meet stringent data security and compliance requirements

February 14, 2014 – T-Systems adds Retarus Fax and SMS Services to its Dynamic Services for Collaboration

January 29, 2014 – Retarus, Inc. officially announces that Retarus Faxolution is interoperable with the BroadWorks platform