Nov 7, 2001 : Postini Acquires Neomeo Corporation

📅 November 7, 2001 - Postini, Inc. (postini.com), a leader in the seamless delivery of email management and email applications functionality, announced that it has acquired Neomeo Corporation, an enterprise software company that integrates contextual information and enterprise data within standard SMTP email.

Neomeo's products include email management and data mining applications thatenhance the ability of corporate email administrators and users to manageand quickly retrieve vital data from their email message stores. Neomeo'stechnology mines messages for content and contextual information, managesand processes email attachments, and extends the reach of enterpriseapplications into email. Neomeo technology also delivers collaborative andmessage management capabilities.
Postini has already begun integration of Neomeo technology into the currentsuite of Postini services that are in use at over 300 customerinstallations.
"Since launching our commercial services over 16 months ago, Postini hasseen dramatic growth in our business. Postini products fill the gaps that ITmanagers face in managing their current email services," said ShinyaAkamine, president and CEO of Postini. "Postini's unique emailinfrastructure gives IT managers immediate and cost effective solutions thatincrease the email administrator's visibility into their email systemactivity, extends their control over email usage policies, and protectstheir users."
"At Neomeo, our vision has been to extend the capabilities of email,arguably the most critical business communications medium," said AmirBakhtiar, CEO of Neomeo. "Postini shares this vision, and by bringing ourcompanies together, not only does the Neomeo technology integrate into alarge-scale commercial platform, but the applications have immediate accessto a fully developed sales channel."
The acquisition of Neomeo solidifies Postini's position as the industry'sleading provider of high-value email functionality. The Postiniinfrastructure is designed to sit in the SMTP message flow and providefunctionality in real time. By integrating the Neomeo technology, Postiniextends the range of management capabilities to encompass email knowledgemanagement and enterprise data integration services.