2019, the year when everything becomes possible
2019 is here, and it’s going to be a turning point for the European digital sphere. With the US’s “America First” policies and highly polarised powers, it’s time for Europe to capitalise on the pool of competences on its territory.
The past year has been a time of realisation. Digital sovereignty has come to the fore as a key economic and strategic challenge for companies and States alike.
The choice of an IT solution is no longer just about technological capability, it’s also about making a societal commitment, as it has bears on our digital (in)dependency and, in turn, our economic independence.
The choices we make with respect to digital technologies make us accountable. Local, open and market-proven solutions are available to us. It is our responsibility as economic or public sector players to make fully-conscious decisions. The French association of CIOs in major companies and public authorities (Cigref) recently named open source as a viable alternative to the domination of major software publishers.
Email is the digital tool most widely used by employees, clients, partners, in essence, everyone, and it is continuously growing. We have been campaigning for years to offer you an open source, transparent alternative to US monopolies. We’re aware that the key hurdle lies in changing deeply-ingrained habits, which is why we’ve been working tirelessly so that you can keep the email tool you’re familiar with, in a completely user-transparent manner. BlueMind v4.0 is the only solution that provides 100% Outlook support, plugin free.
Outlook, Thunderbird, mobile devices, etc., with the newly released BlueMind v4.0, you no longer have to choose between digital independence and user satisfaction.
This new year promises to be full of decisive projects for CIOs: governance, innovation, sovereignty…
The whole BlueMind team wishes you plenty of success, happiness and freedom for 2019!
New version: BlueMind 4
BlueMind 4 breaks the market of collaborative email open
Sovereignty and email habits finally meet
With digital sovereignty at the top of businesses’ and governments’ financial and strategic concerns, BlueMind is proud to announce the newest version of its open-source collaborative email solution, thereby offering an open and transparent alternative to US monopoly providers.
This long-awaited version makes BlueMind the only email solution capable of fully supporting Outlook with no loss of functionality as well as enriching other clients such as Thunderbird, webmail or other mobile applications for collaborative use.
It has taken BlueMind five years’ exclusive research to develop this 100% Outlook compatible, add-on free alternative to Exchange. “BlueMind’s new version 4 brings a definitive solution to the near-monopoly of US providers in the enterprise email market. By allowing organisations to keep the Outlook client with no loss of functionality or use other clients such as Thunderbird, the web or mobile devices in a feature-rich, collaborative way, the BlueMind solution offers an open, cheaper European alternative for email” Pierre Baudracco, CEO of BlueMind explains.
The latest key features
– Data management:
more flexibility and more users for large installs or Cloud-based environments. Central directory and user data are kept separate and several storage spaces or servers (backend) can be specified for user data.
– Archiving:
Archiving is now fully automatic, transparent for users and compatible with all email clients with no plugins required.
– Centralised enterprise signatures management:
enriched through wysiwyg editing, email previewing and other improvements.
– REST API
On the development side, API managed emails is available through a new REST API.
The BlueMind Summit
BlueMind invites the entire open-source messaging French ecosystem to its “BlueMind Summit” on June 6 in Paris. On the agenda: tests and demo of the version 4, partners & tech talks and exclusive presentations of our upcoming innovations.
BlueMind v4.0 unveiled at the Paris Open Source Summit
The BlueMind team is delighted to invite you to Paris Open Source Summit 2018, Europe’s premier event dedicated to all things open source, including software and digital technologies. Pierre Baudracco, CEO of BlueMind, is also the summit’s President of the Programme Committee. With conferences, roundtables and workshops, this year’s edition will particularly focus on the impact of open source in the digital revolution.
One of the related topics to be addressed at the upcoming POSS is the importance of digital sovereignty for organisations. You might have heard our political leaders’ recent comments about how Europe should not be subordinate to other major powers. This is particularly true in the digital world where major players are all too often engaged in locking their solutions to keep users captive.
For an email software publisher like BlueMind, this lock is called Outlook. It is the most widely-used and best-liked email tool and it is so deeply ingrained in users’ habits that the mere mention of switching to something different is a threat to businesses’ social peace. Changing email providers, why not. Changing Outlook, absolutely not!
So, how can we reconcile organisations’ need for digital independence and end-user satisfaction?
Discover BlueMind v4.0
We’ve been working on resolving this issue for several years, and we are extremely proud to be offering a genuine response: BlueMind v4.0. This new version is the only email solution that fully supports Outlook with no loss of functionality but also offers enhanced collaboration features for other email clients such as Thunderbird, the web or mobile devices. Sovereignty is finally compatible with email habits. You now have a choice! We will be unveiling this new version at the Paris Open Source Summit, with a demo on our stand as well as a conference.
Make sure to save the dates:
- BlueMind Stand – C13-C15 – Throughout the Summit
- Conference by Sylvain Garcia – Wednesday 5th December
“Finally, 100% Outlook-compatible open-source mail” (in French)
