Press Release
May 7, 2001
vVault Partners with Onset to Deliver Comprehensive Email Attachment Functionality
vVault Selects METAmessage Conversion Server - Carrier Edition to Give Users Ability to Read Email Attachments on their Wireless Devices
Santa Cruz, CA - Onset Technology, a message-conversion solutions leader, today announced that vVault, a leading mobile productivity solutions provider, will use Onset's METAmessage™ Conversion Server (MCS) - Carrier Edition to provide email attachment conversion capabilities for wireless users of vVault-powered services. vVault plans to integrate Onset's conversion technology into its proprietary vVault Platform messaging engine, thereby giving users the ability to read the text contents of email attachments on wireless devices.
"vVault's use of our message-conversion solution points to the real and growing need among wireless device users for remote access to email attachments," said Steve Koontz, Onset's Director of Communications. "We believe that going forward we will see many users' email attachment needs addressed via offerings from telcos, ISPs and ASPs. The METAmessage - Carrier Edition is ideal for those environments."
"Onset's MCS - Carrier Edition conversion technology provides the telco-grade scalability, reliability, and usability required to meet the high volume and performance demands of the vVault Platform," stated Tilly Chang, Marketing Director for vVault. "Onset's ability to deliver the contents of email attachments, together with vVault's email and fax printing capabilities, completes the wireless email user experience over mobile devices."
Onset's METAmessage for Wireless solutions help increase productivity by letting mobile users remotely read and print attachments - which often contain business critical information such as contracts and contact information - in much the same manner as they would from their desktops. The METAmessage solutions support more than 25 file formats, including common business applications such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
Onset's METAmessage for Wireless
The METAmessage Conversion Server - Carrier Edition is one of three METAmessage for Wireless offerings: METAmessage.com, an Internet-based ASP solution; the METAmessage Conversion Server - Enterprise Edition, a highly scalable solution intended for corporations worldwide for whom "behind-the-firewall" security is especially important; and the METAmessage Conversion Server - Carrier Edition for server-farm-based environments such as telcos, ASPs and ISPs.
About vVault
vVault provides the award-winning vVault Platform, a leading infrastructure technology for communications companies seeking to deploy mobile productivity applications. Solutions based on the vVault Platform enable mobile professionals to access documents, message information, and collaborate with colleagues in the ways they want to work: by fax or email, on laptops, by WAP phones and pagers, and wireless PDAs. vVault's recently announced customers include OmniSky, which plans to offer vVault-powered email attachment view to its wireless Internet subscribers. The vVault Platform is modular and extensible, featuring an XML-based API for fast and flexible implementation. Contact: sales@vVault.com or call (415) 618-8802 for information on licensing the vVault Platform. Founded in June 1999, vVault is a privately held, venture-backed company, based in San Francisco, CA.
About Onset Technology
Onset Technology is the world's leading provider of solutions that convert messages - including fax, email and attachments - into device-independent information that individuals and businesses can easily and immediately access, manage and use again, from virtually anywhere at anytime. The company's METAmessage for Wireless and its ThruFax solutions are available as ASP service offerings for individuals and workgroups, enterprise offerings for corporations, and as carrier offerings for telco, ASP and ISP providers. Onset's scalable solutions are built around its robust patent-pending technologies and are sold directly and by its extensive network of VARs, systems integrators and resellers. Onset partners with major industry vendors, including Lucent, Brooktrout, Intel Dialogic, and with all major fax server manufacturers, to help create market-specific Onset software solutions and to support seamless product and system integration. Onset's U.S. corporate headquarters are located at 111 Mission St., Santa Cruz, Calif., 95060, phone (831) 471-1360, fax (831) 471-1364.
