Premiere Global Services, Inc. (NYSE: PGI), a global provider of on-demand business process improvement solutions, today announced it joined forces with email solutions provider Message Systems and Return Path, an email performance management company, to enhance its suite of eMarketing solutions. The expanded capabilities help customers protect sender reputations by supplying the tools needed to achieve more optimal email campaigns and deliverability rates.
According to recent JupiterResearch surveys, customized reporting and deliverability remain key considerations when marketers select an email marketing provider. With Return Path, Premiere Global customers now may view crucial deliverability metrics such as reputation scores, inbox penetration, blacklist alerts and ISP level reporting in real-time. Premiere Global can provide its customers with more aggressive tools to increase deliverability of their emails.
Premiere Global has chosen Message Systems’ enterprise software solution to assist in its delivery of email. Working with Message Systems will enable Premiere Global customers to see detailed email delivery information that can be used to increase open and click-through rates.
“These new agreements highlight Premiere Global’s continued investment in protecting the sender reputations of our customers,” said Mike Dickerson, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of eMarketing Solutions for Premiere Global Services, Inc. “Because our customers send nearly one billion emails each month, improving email deliverability is critical and provides our customers with better results and better justification for email campaigns.”
About Message Systems
Founded in 1997, Message Systems is a worldwide provider of email software solutions and services for email service providers (ESPs), Internet service providers (ISPs) and large enterprises that need to manage the delivery of large amounts of business-critical email. Through a combination of technology, partnerships and intellectual capital, Message Systems offers a family of software solutions and services that address the email infrastructure and deliverability needs for organizations ranging from regional businesses to the Global 2000. With the most powerful Message Transfer Agent (MTA) on the market supporting more than 100,000 concurrent connections per server, Message Systems gets millions of unique messages to the right place at the right time. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, Message Systems has a network of channel partners in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, go to www.messagesystems.com.
About Return Path
Founded in 1999, Return Path is an email performance management company dedicated to helping its clients build better relationships with their customers, generate higher response rates, and achieve significant returns on their investments from their email programs. More than 1,500 companies currently use Return Path's services to generate superior results from their email programs, taking advantage of Return Path's pioneering innovations in deliverability, email list quality solutions, customer acquisition, online market research, and best practices strategy. For more information, please visit www.returnpath.net.
About Premiere Global Services, Inc.
Premiere Global Services, Inc. is a global provider of on-demand business process improvement solutions that enable businesses to automate and simplify their business processes and to communicate more efficiently and effectively with their constituents.
Our Premiere Global Communications Operating System offers hundreds of industry-specific business applications within the following solutions: Conferencing, Desktop Fax, Document Delivery, Accounts Receivable Management, Notifications & Reminders and eMarketing.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and with presence in 23 countries worldwide, Premiere Global delivers solutions to an established customer base of over 50,000 companies, including nearly 95% of the Fortune 500. Additional information can be found at www.PremiereGlobal.com.
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