CommuniGate Pro with Groupware

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CommuniGate Pro with Groupware
Transforming Enterprise E-mail and Calendaring
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Presentation Outline

• Customers
• Target
• Existing
• Introduction to Stalker Software
• CommuniGate Pro
• Comprehensive Functionality
• Groupware Features
• Advanced Security
• Architecture and Server Features
• Dynamic Cluster
• Administrative Features
• Competitive Landscape
• Cost Comparison
• Awards and Reviews

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Target Customers

• Small and Mid-size Enterprises
• Require calendaring and scheduling on the desktop
• Replace complex and unreliable messaging
  environment
• Deploy open, standards-based solution

• Educational
• Increase efficiency in communication and
  scheduling
• Consolidate departmental servers
• Need wide range of client support (POP, IMAP,
  Web, PIM)

• Service Providers
• Serve the enterprise market
• Enhance revenue with value added services
• Update infrastructure to modern technology

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Stalker Softwares Enterprise and Educational
Customers
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Stalker Softwares Service Provider and Telco
Customers
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Stalker Software Inc. Company Overview

• Mission Stalker Software is committed to
  developing leading edge messaging solutions,
  attaining market leadership and providing
  unparalleled customer satisfaction.
• History - Founded in Germany in 1991, now
  headquartered in Mill Valley, California with
  regional offices in Koblenz, Germany and Moscow,
  Russia.
• Named for technological treasure hunters in the
  1977 Russian science fiction novel Roadside
  Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
• Customers - 8500 worldwide customers (145
  utilizing MAPI connector)
• Markets Educational, Telco, ISP/ASP, and
  Enterprise
• Active users - Over 52 million

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CommuniGate Pro Solution Overview
External Directories
E-mail clients/ Web browsers
Outlook E-Mail and calendaring
Wireless Client
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Comprehensive Functionality

• Standards based IMAP, POP, SMTP supporting
  standards based clients on any desktop

• Enables MS Outlook calendaring/scheduling, shared
  folders, contact creation and maintenance, and
  off-line mode

• Customizable, secure Webmail - supports
  calendaring/scheduling, shared folders, contact
  creation and maintenance, and multi-language
  spell checker

• Integrated directory services, personal Web
  pages, mailing lists

• User self-administration create filters, enable
  vacation messages, forward incoming messages,
  set/recover passwords

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Email and Groupware Architecture
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Security Features

• Secure Authentication
• SASL, APOP, SMTPAUTH, external authentication

• Secure Connections
• Same proven technology as used in on-line
  e-commerce

• Anti-spam
• Built in Controls
• Integrated with leading third party anti-spam
  products (SpamCatcher)

• Anti-virus
• Integrated with leading third-party virus
  scanning products (Network Associates - McAfee)

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Architecture and Server Features

• Flexible Deployments
• Single Server proven support for tens of
  thousands of users
• Dynamic Cluster most reliable solution, proven
  support for millions of users

• Optimized for Speed
• Modern solution with multi-threaded design
• Confirmed by independent benchmarks

• Platform Agnostic
• Runs on over 30 operating system hardware
  combinations including UNIX, Linux, Mac OSX,
  Windows

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Dynamic Cluster Architecture
Webmail
Email Client
Administrator
End Users
Load Balancing
Front End Servers
Back End Servers

• Flexible mailbox format
• No file locks
• Less overhead in disk I/O

Shared Storage
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Dynamic Cluster Features

• Designed to handle heavy traffic with fast
  performance

• Supports uptime requirements exceeding 99.999

• Multi-server architecture provides load balancing
  and redundancy

• Stays up and running, even if several hardware
  components fail

• System appears as one seamless messaging system
  to end-users and administrators

• Easily scalable to meet growth demands with no
  interruptions

• Implements Account Level Synchronization to
  manage data file integrity instead of unreliable
  file locking

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Administrative Features

• Built in Administrator Tools
• Secure Web based interface
• Robust command line interface

• Reliable Performance
• Runs consistently, without constant monitoring
• No corrupt mailboxes to restore

• Delegated Administration
• Each domain can appoint someone to maintain
  users, passwords, and quotas

• Migration Tools
• To easily migrate from other solutions

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Competitive Landscape
Internet E-mail Vendors
Groupware Vendors
Openwave
Critical Path
Lotus Domino
Sendmail
Microsoft Exchange
Sun ONE
Stalker Software
Mirapoint
Novell GroupWise
Ipswitch
Stalker Software fills the gap with its
revolutionary product CommuniGate Pro with
Groupware. The solution includes support for
e-mail, shared folders, calendaring and group
scheduling, both via its full-featured Webmail
interface and by enabling Outlooks advanced
functionality.
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CommuniGate Pro vs. Microsoft Exchange
Acquisition Cost Comparison
1000 Exchange users   1199 OS 3999
Exchange server 67000 Cals 7000 Hardware
79,198 or 79.5 per user
1000 CommuniGate Pro users     120 OS
20,000 CGP Server with Gware MAPI license
3500 Hardware 23,620 or 23.62 per user
Savings of 70 over Exchange on acquisition alone
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CommuniGate Pro vs. Microsoft Exchange Three
Year TCO Comparison
Savings of 56 over Exchange
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CommuniGate Pro vs. Microsoft Exchange ROI from
purchasing CommuniGate Pro

• Microsoft Exchange
• Cost of annual upgrade for 1,000 users 18,000
• Architectural migration estimated at approx 50
  per user 50,000
• Administration 100,000
• CommuniGate Pro
• Purchase price for 1,000 users 20,000
• Administration 50,000
• Return on investment of 98,000 within one year

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CommuniGate Pro Awards

• Best Network/Server Application Winner
  LinuxWorld San Francisco, August 2003.
• CommuniGate Pro Rating 5 STARS (out of 5)
  E-mail Product Review, About.com, March 7, 2002.
• Best Network Server Solution Finalist -
  LinuxWorld Expo August 2001.
• CommuniGate Pro Rating 8 (out of 10) / SendMail
  Rating 6 (out of 10) Mail Apps Go Head to Head -
  CNET Linux Center - February 6, 2001.
• Editors Bid Winner - Network Computing Magazine
  Performance contest in Corporate and ISP E-Mail
  environments. Passed heavy-load IMAP tests
  without errors to beat iPlanet, Critical Path,
  Novell, Mirapoint, and Rockliffe. September
  2000.
• Software Product of the Year and Best Large
  Scale Mail System Winner Well Connected
  Awards, Network Computing Magazine, May 2001.

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CommuniGate Pro Reviews

• For companies looking for a groupware solution
  that taps Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook on the
  desktop, Stalker Software Inc.'s CommuniGate Pro
  4.1 delivers a comparable experience to
  Microsoft's Exchange.
• Michael Caton, eWEEK, September 2003
• For now, if you're seeking a server with
  Exchange Server functionality for your Outlook
  clients you still have a choice. Use Exchange or
  use Stalker's CGPro.Ron Anderson, Network
  Computing, July 2003
• Stalker Software's Outlook interface is an
  elegant and brilliant engineering feat.Barry
  Gerber, VARBusiness, May 2003

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Conclusion

• Stalker Software builds the most reliable,
  scalable and cost-effective email systems for
  schools, enterprises and service providers that
  rely on email to keep their business running
  smoothly.
• With proven technology, unmatched experience and
  many successful implementations, Stalker
  Software is committed to addressing their
  customers messaging needs.
• The result for our customers is an extremely
  reliable email infrastructure that is easy to
  manage and expand.