MPP and Beyond

Below is a Message Partners‘ podcast covering our newest developments, which includes improvements in usability, and why MPP continues to be the email security solution of choice for large-scale email providers. You can listen to the podcast or simply read the transcript below.

 

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Tell me about some of the recent developments with MPP.

We’ve had some really exciting customer wins. We’re really focusing now on improving the usability of MPP, particularly in two areas. In the archival compliance area and in the management of the solution. We are focusing a lot on adding new capabilities to our archival solution for retrieval, for compliance grade searching, and for export because there’s a growing demand for Linux based archival solutions. And we spent a fair amount of resources reorganizing our GUI and building a whole new web platform for managing both the front end and back end systems.

Are any of these new developments focused on spam accuracy, or are they solely focused on usability?

We think that our detection rates are really the best in the industry. We’re really partnering with some of the best spam technology providers that exist, and there’s really nobody that’s providing any better detection rates then we are right now.

But in the end technology is only a piece of the puzzle; you also have to have usability. Really it comes down to how easy you can install the software, how easy it is for administrators and end-users to operate the software. We feel technologically we’re there already, and that’s really our focus right now, making the software more usable for end-users and administrators.

I’m sure most companies are aware of the vast number of email security solutions available out there right now. What makes MPP unique and why should someone invest in your email security solution?

Well, whenever you’re in a crowded market, differentiation comes from specialization. I mean, of course our spam detection is I think second to none, and anyone that tests that will see that we really have the best spam detection that is available.

But we focus our efforts on a few market niches. MPP is really good for service providers because we support the platforms that they use and we really specialize in multi-domain configurations. MPP is great for people that want to leverage open source because we make open source much easier to use in email security environments. We also have some other small niches in Mac OSX, we’re really the best enterprise grade Mac OSX solution. Those really are our primary strengths.

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