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Personally via all channels: trends in customer communication
Read moreCompanies wishing to inform customers or employees in an up-to-date manner nowadays rely on more than one means of communication: the keywords in this regard are multi- or omnichannel. In order to not only reach recipients reliably, but also to gain their attention, a personalized form of address is essential.
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Email: Business communication with a future
Read moreIn 1971 Ray Tomlinson sent the first email. Today, email has become the most important business communication channel of all – despite the growth of social media and new collaboration tools.
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Precise to the millisecond: NTP services in the “Internet of Things”
Read moreThe “Internet of Things” is growing at an astounding rate: Therefore, an increasing number of applications which require precise and synchronized time information in order to perform their tasks reliably. Retarus now offers reliable, fail-safe and future-proof NTP services, which allow businesses to control and monitor the time synchronization of client devices flexibly via the…
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Machine to machine and person to person: This is how Industry 4.0 can succeed
Read moreDigitalization is making its way into factory halls. Keywords such as “the digital factory” and “industry 4.0” are heralding the implementation of an increasing number of “smart” machines. In order to encourage the necessary acceptance of automated systems, it is, however, important to integrate them as seamlessly as possible into the human work processes.
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Simplified contact management with dynamic distribution lists
Read moreManaging distribution lists can take a huge amount of time and effort. Web-based message distribution tools simplify this task considerably. A remedy is provided by the dynamic lists function: This filter function allows users to easily adapt a general distribution list which has been previously uploaded, so that it can be customized individually for each…
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How “funky” is the fax actually these days?
Read moreThe Financial Times recently investigated this question in an article on the future of business communication. Pointing to numerous research examples, the newspaper shows impressively that there continue to be compelling use cases for fax as a communication medium. From the medical sector right through to the internet economy, companies around the globe are set…
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Banks in flux: Digital transformation requires new sales channels
Read moreBanks and finance companies increasingly have to face the challenges of digital transformation. The way in which clients communicate with their banks has undergone a radical change. The institutes are taking up the trend and are in the process of becoming multichannel banks.
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Up and away into the cloud?
Read moreIt’s hardly news that a growing number of companies are turning to cloud services. That this also largely applies to corporate email communication is less well known. After all, the issue here is the exchange of sensitive information, such as business-critical figures or personal details. This trend has now been highlighted by a recent study…
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Award-winning: Ministry for Economic Affairs honors Retarus for outstanding growth
Read moreRetarus still counts as one of the fastest growing companies in Bavaria: The global messaging service provider was once again awarded the title “Bayerns Best 50”. With this award the Bavarian State Ministry distinguishes companies who have attained above-average growth in both number of employees and turnover over the previous years.
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Spam and other nuisances: Communication can be a pleasure, rather than a pain
Read moreWhile the percentage of spam messages has slightly decreased for private users, the amount of unwanted messages at work has remained consistently high. But spam is not the only cause of dissatisfaction with corporate email communications.
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Audit-proof email archiving: Ten things a cloud service must offer
Read moreCompanies have a legal obligation to archive their business-relevant emails for long periods of time in such a way that they cannot be modified. An audit-proof email archive is therefore essential for the compliance of information systems. Ten things that you have to pay particular attention to when dealing with audit-proof email archiving, including the…