PArtnerships

IBM Partnership

As « IBM Advanced partner », IBM’s official, MailInBlack distributes its MailInBlack-PRO solution onto professional IBM servers.

MailInBlack is also labeled « Solution Express Advantage ». For IBM, «this Built On IBM Express Advantage label is the guarantee that the solution has successfully been implemented in a SME SMI client environment with a high level of service».

Finally, MailInBlack has publicly received the « Ready for Lotus Domino » certification after having completed all of IBM’s technical, availability and service conditions:

« The software application Ready for IBM Lotus Domino » is an official offer through which the products of IBM’s business partners are conceived, tested and validated in order to facilitate their integration with IBM Lotus Domino software. When you buy products from these business partners, that have been validated by the IBM Lotus Domino label, you know that they comply with the compatibility standards defined by IBM and thus will work with the Lotus Domino software and benefit from integration from start to finish.
Lotus Domino offers a multi-platform foundation for collaboration and e-business, by proposing solutions covering fields as wide as company messaging systems and Web transactions.
These company messaging and collaboration systems allow clients to optimize productivity.
The advantages of the Ready for Lotus Domino certification are the following:

• Certitude that the solutions fulfill the IBM criteria and standards defined
• Potential reduction of the evaluation/purchase cycle
• IBM's commitment with regard to Lotus Domino
• Faster and easier deployment on Lotus Domino

IBM is the world leader in I.T. Its numerous subsidiaries and different lines of work ensure its unequalled expertise, its sense of reactivity and the quality of its products.

The partnership agreement with IBM has been effective since the month of November, 2004.

BITDEFENDER Partnership

For its anti-virus, MailInBlack formed a partnership with Bitdefender.

The two companies signed a partnership agreement in August 2004 which recognizes their respective technological advances and complementarity.

Thanks to the originality and the technological performance of its system, MailInBlack has rapidly become the leading player in anti-spam. MailInBlack uses innovative technology based on the identification of senders.

For its part, BitDefender is one of the best anti-viruses in the world. Bitdefender anti-virus technology equips 120 million people in more than 100 countries, and employs 450 people. Bitdefender is the only anti-virus to have received the prize for technological innovation awarded by the European Commission (IST Prize). The engines are certified by ICSA, Checkmark, Virus Bulletin, CheckVir and AV-Test.

OSEO Partnership

The MailInBlack solution is recognized by OSEO: A National Agency for Evaluation and Research, known as "The French Agency of Innovation". This is under the trusteeship of the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry via the minister of state for Industry and the secretary of state for SME and that of Research and New Technologies.

TOTAL Development Partnership

MailInBlack is supported by TOTAL Development: through its industrial history, its activities and its international dimension, Total has exceptional means in terms of knowledge, know-how, business relations and hardware, all on which MailInBlack can count.

Member of the S.C.S World Competitiveness Pole

The World Competitiveness Pole, SCS, brings together players in micro-electronics, software, telecommunication, services and the development of TICs in France. It unites around 200 players in industry, public laboratories, universities and institutions around co-operative R&D projects in high-growth markets: mobile communication, health, tourism and insurance, safety, security.