Exclaimer

Exclaimer

Type	Privately held company
Industry	Information technology Computer software Cloud computing Email management E-mail archiving Anti-spam
Founded	2001
Founder	Andrew Millington Chris Crawshay
Headquarters	Farnborough, United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Andrew Millington (CEO) Chris Crawshay (CIO) Gary Levell (CTO)
Products	Signatures for Office 365, Signature Manager Product Suite, Template Editor, Mail Archiver, Auto Responder, Outlook Photos, Email Alias Manager for Exchange, Image Analyzer, Address Tagging for Exchange
Website	www.exclaimer.com

Exclaimer is an independent software vendor and cloud service provider based in Farnborough, Hampshire, UK. The company also has offices in the Netherlands, United States, Germany and Australia. It develops, sells and provides support for a suite of email utilities and cloud computing technologies designed for adding disclaimers, branding, personalised email signatures, email archiving, anti-spam, retention-policy enforcement, auto replies and regulatory compliance for corporate email.

Its products are designed to work with Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook and Office 365 to give IT departments greater control over their entire email system(s) without altering the individual user experience. It also offers a bespoke email signature design service and has been a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner since 2007.

Exclaimer successfully achieved the ISO 27001:2013 Certification for Information Security Management in February 2016 from Alcumus ISOQAR and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).^[1] This is specifically for the development and supply of a cloud hosted email signature management system. It was also awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in April 2016 for International Trade,^[2] the highest official UK award a British business can achieve.

History

The company was founded in 2001 and was the first company to create a bespoke email signature solution for Microsoft Exchange Server. Since then, Exclaimer has become firmly established as the major supplier of email signature software/services to more than 50 million users worldwide including organizations in the legal, financial, healthcare, local and central government, manufacturing and media industries. It has also written an official For Dummies guide on Email Signatures.

Types of Product

Email disclaiming, branding, signatures and compliance

• Signatures for Office 365 - first released in July 2015,^[3] Exclaimer Cloud - Signatures for Office is an online cloud-based email management tool that among other things adds disclaimers, corporate branding and personalised signature blocks to email messages sent from or received by Office 365.^[4] It was named as one of the top innovations at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in 2015.^[5]
• Signature Manager Product Suite - the Exclaimer Signature Manager Product Suite^[6][7] is a collection of on-premises software tools to automate and control the management of a business' email signature/s. The software solutions are compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook and Office 365.
• Template Editor - released in February 2014, Exclaimer Template Editor is an all-purpose email signature editor to allow a non-technical department to build signature templates without using dedicated IT assets.

Archiving email

• Mail Archiver - first released in October 2005 then relaunched in 2013,^[8] Exclaimer Mail Archiver for Microsoft Exchange archives inbound, outbound and internal email to an archive database for self-service search and retrieval via a web client or client-side software. It helps organizations fulfil regulatory email storage requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley and to maintain internal email retention policies.

Automating email responses

• Auto Responder - first released in May 2010, Exclaimer Auto Responder^[9] is an on-premises software tool designed to let a business create automated responses to emails that are sent through Microsoft Exchange Server.

Adding pictures to your Active Directory

• Outlook Photos - first released in March 2011, Exclaimer Outlook Photos adds images to an organization's Active Directory to allow for personalized emails or inserting them into other products that use Active Directory.^[10]

Anti-spam solutions

• Anti-spam - first released in June 2011, this has a 99% spam detection rate using CYREN's Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) for spam and virus monitoring as well as other more conventional spam detection methods.

Additional email utility tools

• Email Alias Manager for Exchange - released in 2013, this lets users send from multiple email addresses from one Exchange mailbox.^[11] It eliminates the need for setting up different POP3 accounts or using unintuitive workarounds.
• Image Analyzer - released in May 2010, Exclaimer Image Analyzer scans emails passing through a Microsoft Exchange Server for sexually explicit imagery using optical content recognition (OCR).
• Address Tagging for Exchange - released in November 2014, Exclaimer Address Tagging for Exchange lets users create and manage any disposable email addresses without involving an Exchange System Administrator.^[12]

Awards

• CRN Sales and Marketing Awards 2016 - Best Technology Innovation Award Finalist^[13]
• Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2016^[14]
• CloudComputingAdmin.com Gold Award - Signatures for Office 365^[15]
• Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards 2014 - SME of the Year Finalist^[16]
• Inspire Business Awards 2014 - International Business of the Year Runner Up^[17]
• MSExchange.org Readers' Choice Award - Best Outlook Add-On & Best Exchange OWA Add-On (2010-2016)^[18]
• Best of Microsoft TechEd North America 2012^[19]
• Windows IT Pro Editor's Choice Award 2012 - Best Messaging Product^[20]
• MSExchange.org Readers' Choice Award 2011 - Best Exchange Administration Tool^[21]

See also

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Circular 230
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
• Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
• Companies Act 2006
• Basel III

External links

• Official website
• Corporate Overview
• Exclaimer Products
• The Email Signature Handbook
• Conversational Office 365 Email Signatures
• Email Signatures for Dummies
• The 17 Email Signature DOs and DON'Ts

References