STRATO Announces New Open-Xchange Webmail as a Cloud Communication Centre

LONDON, July 13, 2011 -

Integration of social networks and
personal interface

STRATO is now offering a new webmail service based on
Open-Xchange. The Communicator from STRATO comes on an intuitive
AJAX-based interface. The customisable interface can also integrate
news feeds from other websites and widgets such as weather reports.
Tailored especially for business customers, the Communicator has
mobile access capabilities for smartphones and groupware features.
“The new STRATO Communicator is a communication centre in the cloud
which enables our customers to organise messages, contacts and
appointments from various mailboxes, and manage social media easily
and professionally in one interface,” Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO
commented.

With the Communicator from STRATO, all new hosting and webshop
package customers are provided with basic mailboxes and users have
the opportunity to upgrade several mailboxes to the premium
version. Existing customers will be transferred to the new
Communicator in due course.

With basic mailboxes, STRATO customers can manage emails,
appointments, tasks and contacts. On the interface users can
drag-and-drop inboxes, news feeds and widgets. Anyone with a basic
mailbox who would like to trial the premium features can upgrade
their mailbox to a premium account for 90 days free of charge.
 If users wish to continue with the premium features for more
than 90 days, they will be charged only £4.99* per month for the
premium mailbox. During the test phase, users can cancel the
premium features at any point in the customer service area.

The premium mailboxes in the Communicator include the integration
of social networks, groupware functions, and synchronization of
emails, contacts and appointments with mobile devices. Customers
can use their premium mailboxes to directly access their data from
social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook. For easy communication
with friends, colleagues or supervisors, customers can use the team
calendar, secretarial and manager functions. With the team events
calendar, teams can coordinate themselves. The manager function
allows the delegation of tasks to employees and the secretary
function allows assistants to manage the appointments of their
supervisors. Via Exchange-Active-Sync emails, contacts and
appointments can be synchronized automatically with popular mobile
devices such as iPhone or iPad, Android smartphone and tablets, and
Windows Mobile phones.

STRATO’s mailboxes are guarded by reliable spam protection. STRATO
has developed a patented spam filter with the Humboldt University
in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for computer science. 
Ninety percent of STRATO customers trust STRATO’s spam filter
according to a representative study**. In the comparison group only
72% trusted their spam filter. In addition, all data is stored in
Germany and is subject to strict German data protection
regulations.

Notes to Editors:

* Offer to test premium mailboxes 90 days free, then at £4.99
per month, runs until 31 July 2011. Contract period is 12 months
and prices exclude VAT.
** Representative online survey conducted by GfK on behalf of
STRATO, June 2009. Audience polled: 442 STRATO customers,
comparison group of 514 Internet users.

About STRATO

STRATO, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is Europe’s
second-largest web hosting and web application provider. Its
services include online hard disks, all-in-one web hosting
packages, dedicated and virtual servers and hosted business
software such as online shops. STRATO has over 1.4 million customer
contracts in six countries and hosts 4 million domains in two
ISO-certified, climate-neutral data centres.

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