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Lured by the emerging benefits of integrated multi-media messaging, end-to-end tracking and value-added services, businesses are expected to make electronic messaging the next hot area in IT outsourcing. Managed messaging represents the logical evolution of a technology — electronic messaging — that has already sparked a revolution. Empowered by the Internet, electronic messaging has in a relatively short time transformed the way organizations communicate. In the hands of outsourcing experts email marketing and email addresses technology promises to forge even greater communications innovation in the months to come.
The message store is open. With visionary storekeepers like USA.NET, business customers are lining up to get a piece of the communications future.

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As the company that introduced managed messaging for business, USA.NET has a special stake in analyzing emerging technology trends and business developments to create a coherent vision for the future of messaging.

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One way to create a short list of potential messaging partners is to find the innovators in the industry. USA.NET, the largest independent email messaging provider in the world, was the first Messaging Service Provider to offer Web-based email in 1996 — and the first to introduce managed messaging for businesses in 1997. The Colorado-based company, which started out as an Internet Service Provider in 1991 (the same year the World Wide Web was born) today offers email and managed messaging solutions for businesses, service providers and consumers. The company manages more than 11 million mailboxes and processes nearly 200 million messages a month via its patent-pending “message store” technology. (more…)

In an industry as new as managed messaging, choosing the right Messaging Service Provider might just be the most important decision you make concerning the future of your company’s messaging system. The right provider will offer the right technology, the right services and the right support and management tools. Here’s a checklist that can help you choose wisely: (more…)

In fact, although integrated messaging has yet to be fully realized, businesses are already feeling the financial pinch of supporting in-house messaging systems. Creative Networks Inc. (CNI), a leading IT consultancy firm, estimates that the cost of in-house hardware, software and technical administration for a typical messaging system exceeds $650 per employee per year. Despite this hefty investment, many organizations still have to deal with significant downtime, constrained capacity and rapidly outdated technology. (more…)

The Rise of Electronic Messaging
It’s hard to imagine a world without email, probably because the technology has so quickly insinuated itself into everyday life. This year, an estimated 1.4 trillion email messages will be sent worldwide (Figure 1). By 2002, more than half of the men, women and children in the U.S. are expected to regularly use email. (more…)

The case for handing over responsibility for building and maintaining your company’s email and advanced messaging infrastructure to leading Messaging Service Providers like USA.NET® grows stronger every day. (more…)

The hierarchy of needs is an idea associated almost entirely with one man, Abraham Maslow, the most influential anthropologist ever to have worked in industry. New York-born Maslow did anthropological research among the Blackfoot Indians in Alberta, Canada, before working in industry. He subsequently became professor of psychology at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

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