Belgacom Picks Ensim Unify for Exchange 2003

Ensim Corporation (www.ensim.com) announced that Belgacom, the leading Belgium telecommunications provider, selected Ensim Unify as the hosting automation platform for its new Communication Tools offering.

With Ensim Unify, Belgacom is able to deliver, manage and control Exchange 2003 as a hosted service from its secure, redundant tier one data center facilities.

Said Stijn Vander Plaetse, head of product management for data products, said, "Ensim Unify offers a highly scalable, open architecture solution that makes it possible for us to migrate over 100,000 email accounts to hosted Exchange 2003.

Belgacom's Communication Tools offering was created to meet the needs of companies that were looking for high-performance messaging and collaboration and reduce their communication costs.

Micheline Germanos, director of Microsoft Hosting EMEA, said, "Belgacom's plans to migrate their legacy email delivery platform to the MS Exchange 2003 platform managed by Ensim Unify demonstrates the strong market demand for Exchange 2003, as well as the scalability of the Ensim Unify platform."

With Belgacom's Communication Tools based on Microsoft Exchange 2003 and managed by Ensim Unify, subscribers do not need to invest in expensive equipment, software or technical support.

For only EUR 5 per month per email box, professional customers will have all the advantages of a professional email solution, including viruses scanning, spam filtering, storage and backups. Ensim Unify also enables Belgacom to quickly roll out advanced mobility features, thereby allowing customers to access their email from any PDA, Smartphones or portable computer.

Ensim Unify is a multi-service delivery platform for Web and application hosting. Architected to be highly scalable and extensible, Ensim Unify allows Belgacom to centrally create, control and deliver applications as a service.