These products will enable the business community throughout Europe to optimise their business processes and improve communications with their customers, suppliers and employees.
Although email services are proliferated throughout the World Wide Web, there are very few which concentrate on the business community’s requirements of being fast, always available, simple to administer and cost effective. Developed in a HP-UX environment, the complex back-end technology built by DCL will be enhanced by a front-end customised by COLT and placed on the COLT EuroLAN.
Rob Mainor, Managing Director, COLT Internet, said, providing advanced Internet services and building complex and competitive products requires the collaboration of market leaders in their respective fields. The relationship with DCL allows us to offer our customers a reliable and cost efficient email system that will allow them to concentrate on running their business, whilst COLT manages their email system.
Whilst COLT manages the email platform on its own site, customers are able to have their own domain name and administer their own accounts as if they are operating the system in-house. Several of COLT’s customers have already started to take advantage of this. Their desire to outsource part of their email system to a quality service provider is a key component of their IT strategy. The outsourcing business model allows companies to make considerable savings, focus on core competencies yet still enhance their Internet infrastructure.
Phil McConnell, Managing Director of DCL, said, We are excited about this service, as the first of several based on our Internet Applications product suite which COLT is introducing to its business customers. DCL has put a massive engineering investment into creating a next-generation product suite and unique distributed-directory infrastructure. Thereby, leading-edge communications companies like COLT can provide higher-function, cost-efficient services to their business customers. COLT has a tremendous vision for its future product offerings, and we are delighted to be able to play a significant part in helping them to realise it.
