Omnicom Group Selects MessageOne to Ensure Email & Business Continuity for Its Global Agencies
MessageOne’s EMS Email Continuity Guarantees Email Dialtone and Business Resiliency for 60,000 Worldwide Employees
Austin, TX – July 29, 2005 – MessageOne announced today that Omnicom Group, Inc. (NYSE: OMC) – owner of three of the top ten global advertising brands (BBDO Worldwide, DDB Worldwide and TBWA Worldwide) as well as more than three hundred additional agencies in more than 100 countries – has selected MessageOne as the advertising conglomerate’s exclusive global provider of email continuity solutions.
“Communications is the lifeblood of our business – it is both our product and the essential tool which helps us deliver superior client service and create brand leadership for our clients,” said John G. Sohikian, Director of Technology Services, Strategic Alliance Services, Omnicom Group, Inc. “At the very crux of it all is email – the vital link which allows us to maintain constant communications in our fast-moving business with employees, clients, vendors, partners and media. By proactively planning for email outages and disasters with MessageOne’s EMS service, we are confident that our mission critical email system will always be up, keeping our business, and our clients’ businesses, connected and open for business.”
EMS Email Continuity Delivers Email Dialtone
With the MessageOne email backup service, EMS enables Omnicom’s 58,000 employees worldwide to continue to send and receive corporate email from remote locations, even if the firm’s email servers go down, due to a disaster, such as a hurricane, flood or other outage. In less than one minute, Omnicom, or any of its agencies can activate EMS Email Continuity to take over for its primary messaging system in some or all of the business areas. Because EMS is hosted in a secure world-class data facility, regardless of the location or the severity of the email outage, Omnicom’s employees will be up and running with email to keep vital business and emergency communications intact until the primary mail system is back in place.
Local Success Leads to Corporate-Wide Use
The new business relationship between the two companies greatly expands the use of MessageOne, which has been the email continuity provider for a number of Omnicom companies including Austin, Texas-based advertising agency GSD&M, DDB Los Angeles and several Dallas, Texas-based Omnicom agencies. Based on the positive response from those IT departments and strong results from these Omnicom agencies, the global organization made the decision to standardize on MessageOne’s EMS across its entire worldwide enterprise.
“At Omnicom’s GSD&M, we needed a solution that would guarantee email would always be up and running – no matter what,” said Jerry Rios, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer of Austin, Texas-based GSD&M – the advertising agency that has long represented clients including Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart and the U.S. Air Force. “That’s why we turned to MessageOne’s EMS (Email Management Services) – it’s low cost, easily deployed and serves us well. It also lets my staff and me sleep a whole lot better at night.”
“Over the past three years, we’ve come to rely on MessageOne’s EMS to guarantee that no matter what could or does happen to our email system or IT infrastructure, we’ll always have email up and running – communicating both internally and with our clients, as well as the rest of the world,” said Rios.
Today, hundreds of companies and millions of users depend on MessageOne’s EMS to ensure that corporate email is always available. EMS Email Continuity is unique in the market and is rapidly changing the economics of business continuity. It is the only affordable solution to address the shortfalls of tape backup and traditional mirroring and replication solutions. It is easy to use, 1/20th the cost of traditional solutions, and can be installed in just a few hours.
Omnicom is a global marketing company, with many of the top firms in public relations, advertising, and media services. In the public relations arena, Fleischman-Hillard, Ketchum, Porter Novelli are part of Omnicom as well as specialty public relations firms Brodeur Worldwide, Clark & Weinstock, Gavin Anderson & Co. and Cone. In addition to BBDO, DDB and TBWA Worldwide, Omnicom’s national advertising agencies include: Arnell Group; Element 79 Partners; Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; GSD&M; Martin/Williams; Markley + Partners and Zimmerman Partners. Omnicom media services companies include: OMD Worldwide, PHD Network, along with specialist agencies Novus Print Media, Icon International asset barter.
About Omnicom Group Inc.
Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com) is a leading global advertising, marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom’s branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.
About MessageOne
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, MessageOne is the leading provider of managed services for email management, archiving and business continuity. For enterprise email and wireless messaging systems, the company’s Email Management Services (EMS™) provides comprehensive email archiving, storage management and e-Discovery with the total continuity, recovery, and security protection only available from a managed service. In addition, MessageOne’s AlertFind™ provides guaranteed emergency notification and escalation to help companies protect their employees during any crisis or disaster. Millions of users around the world depend on MessageOne for its award-winning managed services.
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Paul D'Arcy
Phone: 512-652-4500
Email: paul_darcy@messageone.com
Kirstan Ryan
Phone: 512-652-4500
Email: kirstan_ryan@messageone.com
