June 2010

Alinto announces a first external expansion with ANSM
Alinto, messaging software developer for businesses, has acquired 100% stake of the Parisian society ANSM, operator of Internet services and Hosted Exchange. Alinto acquired ANSM with all its employees and will recruit new staff soon.

Since 10 years, Alinto designs, develops and operates mobile and collaborative solutions of unified messaging, for it's operators and customers. With over 1.5 million accounts in five countries, Alinto has become a European leader in this sector. Its technology, based on Linux, provides an efficient and competitve solution to its users of open and heterogeneous systems.

For its part, ANSM develops and operates since 10 years internet services and has deployed a platform Hosted Microsoft Exchange available in private label. http://www.serveurexchange.fr.

With this acquisition, Alinto will be able to offer its expertise in deployement, in exploitation and in fully managed dedicated server in SaaS or PaaS. The publisher may also offer a unique innovation by enabling a company to mix messaging services on different technologies. For example, a company may offer on the same domain name, POP / IMAP accounts and Exchange accounts. The financial gain is therefore very important because the TCO can vary by a ratio from 1 to 4.

With this acquisition, Alinto's customers can rely on ANSM solid skills in internet service. Vice versa, ANSM's customers will benefit from Alinto's services in unified communications or in secured mail relay server services. Overall, Alinto now has all the fundamentals to respond even more effectively to the needs of SME, large companies or government agencies.

On the organizational level, in addition to the headquarter based in Lyon, the company will now expand its regional network in the region "Ile-de-France". The group thus justify a new agency based in Paris, where the team of ANSM will be gathered.

With a team of 22 employees and a strategic presence in France and abroad, the new group is positioned as a major actor in its sector regarding its size, its offer globality, its turnover, but also regarding its customer numbers. In this context, Alinto benefits from references such as Euronews, La Poste, l'APCE…

Philippe Gilbert, CEO of Alinto : « The acquisition of ANSM is a strategic element to our society. Through this meeting of know-how, Alinto is positioned as the key actor on the market for collaborative mail,
through its offer globality and its ability to deliver a full service to its customers. This merger is the result of a common industrial vision between the two companies and a real complementarity between our offers.»

This operation was accompanied by Alinto's financial partner, PROMELYS Participations. Hervé Letoublon, membre of Promelys Participations directory : « This integration within Alinto is a generator of growth that helps expanding the offer as well as the customer base by offering a Microsoft solution preferred by some DSI, and this integration also helps having an establishment in Paris. This merger will offer customers a new offer based high added value services in the sector of professional messaging tools. »

About Alinto

Created in January 2000, Alinto is a leading European editor and operators for collaborative mail and unified communications. Alinto manages over 4,000 professional mail domains and over one and a half million users in 5 countries.

Based in Lyon and in Germany Alinto relies on a team that has expertise in electronic communication since over fifteen years and combines a high research and developement politicy supported by a high quality customer service.

2010 marks the 10th anniversary of the developer and operator of email solutions that was recently awarded with the special prize for innovation by OSEO at the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. Alinto has quickly emerged thanks to its strategic choices of its founders. Innovation and proximity convinced its customers.

With a constant will to innovate, Alinto, was one of the first:
to design a messaging solution based on SaaS (Software as a Service)
to offer a service to access mails from a mobile in 2000
to offer premium messaging services and 2GB mailboxes in Europe
to make a rabbit read a calendar (Nabaztag)…

Website : http://www.alinto.com

Blog : http://www.demainlemail.com

 

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