EMA Radar Report ranks Mimecast as top Value Leader
Mimecast, a leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange, announced that it has been named a Value Leader in Enterprise Management Associates’ Radar Report for Hosted Messaging Security Services.
The EMA Radar Report analyses the products and overall market position of nine industry-leading vendors. The evaluation of software products are based on five key areas:
- architecture and integration
- functionality
- deployment and administration
- cost advantage
- vendor strength
Mimecast’s key strengths were reported as follows:
- Loyal, growing customer base
- Excellent functionality provided at an aggressive price
- Highly redundant, secure architecture with performance as a design priority
- Excellent integration with Microsoft Exchange, Outlook and Active Directory
- Strong compliance and data loss prevention capabilities
The report also states that Hosted Messaging Security adds to the value and cost efficiency of Hosted Messaging services, and recognises Mimecast’s impact on midmarket customers. The EMA Radar Report recognises only companies with solutions on the market for a year or longer, and who qualify as key players under a variety of additional criteria.
“Mimecast offers an impressive suite of email management capabilities including hosted message security that solves many of the most common challenges of email management, compares favorably to leading competitors and is offered at a highly competitive price point,” said Scott Crawford, Managing Research Director of EMA. “These values pushed it into the Value Leader category in this year’s Hosted Messaging Security Services Radar Report and we recommend Mimecast as a company that prospective customers should know better. The company’s market traction, excellent integration with Microsoft Exchange and overall secure architecture make it a strong option for email security and related requirements.”
The Company’s Unified Email Management services are in use by 4,000 companies worldwide. Mimecast’s email continuity, archiving and security solutions are integrated with Microsoft Exchange, reducing the cost, complexity and risk of managing email systems.
