Introduction Saving time and money while making better business decisions is more important to corporations now than ever before. Electronic mail is a fast, inexpensive, and efficient method for sending and receiving all types of information. Electronic mail is a utility, widely used by most corporations to provide a cohesive infrastructure for knowledge workers of all types to conduct daily business. In multi-vendor environments, organizations need to communicate across a variety of existing systems and applications easily and reliably. The HP Electronic Messaging Solution interoperates with a variety of electronic mail systems and allows information to be exchanged transparently between users and applications throughout an enterprise. See Figure 1 below. Figure 1 (L2CC24.gal) The HP Electronic Messaging Solution provides communications from: Person-to-person. Employees can transfer, access, and manipulate simple messages; multimedia compound documents; complex spreadsheets; and more, in the desired formats. Person-to-application. Sales representatives can request the latest competitive data over the electronic mail system, in order to update a critical hotline for sales information. Application-to-person. An order processing system that detects an exception can mail a report to a distribution list for action. Application-to-application. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) applications can use the messaging infrastructure to submit and process orders within and between companies. Two major differences separate the HP Electronic Messaging Solution from all other electronic mail. First, the HP Electronic Messaging Solution is a complete architecture for implementing large mission- critical messaging networks. Secondly, it provides the most cost- effective management of large messaging networks. Benefits HP Electronic Messaging provides a complete messaging infrastructure that links to existing electronic-messaging systems. The HP Electronic Messaging Solution is comprehensive, providing a message store; interfaces; transport; directory; administration services; security; mail-enabled applications; gateways; convertors; support; consulting; and system integration. The architecture is based on UNIX and X.400 standards so that the solution can be implemented without risk of being outpaced by rapidly changing technology. With its open architecture, the solution can interoperate with a variety of system types, from PC LAN to mini/mainframes. The HP Electronic Messaging Solution is cost-effective and offers the lowest overall cost of ownership per user in the industry. The cost of installing and operating an electronic messaging system is far greater than the original purchase price. HP has integrated and tested the HP Electronic Messaging Solution completely. HP provides installation scripts to minimize start-up time and offers solution consulting for configuration, customization, pilot project implementation, and solution deployment. For operational efficiency and lowered costs, HP OpenMail includes a full suite of management tools for remote, centralized administration, remote task automation, on-line backup, audit trail and statistics, error reporting, and troubleshooting. Also, the HP 9000 and X.400 transport are manageable by HP OpenView Network Node Manager. Features The core component of the HP Electronic Messaging Solution is HP OpenMail, the only standards-based mail engine in the marketplace today. This engine provides the reliability, security, scalability, and manageability for supporting critical business communications. HP offers its own interfaces to HP OpenMail with a similar look and feel across the following client desktops: MS-DOS MS Windows HP NewWave HP UNIX workstations Terminals. Users may choose from other leading clients, such as: Clarity Rapport Lotus cc:Mail Microsoft Mail With a growing list of new third-party relationships, HP Electronic Messaging is positioned as the most flexible and best overall messaging solution for the '90s. Directories HP OpenMail includes a directory service that enables all users to address messages transparently to recipients, whether those recipients are on HP DeskManager, X.400, UNIX mail, or any other mail system. Message Store HP's X.400 Message Transfer Agent (MTA) enables HP OpenMail users to interconnect with users anywhere on X.400-compatible mailing systems in multi-vendor environments. Gateways and Convertors Customers may choose among a variety of electronic mail gateways and convertors. Third-party gateway and accessory products contribute to a powerful, flexible solution for interoperation with existing mail systems. Figure 2, below, shows the architecture of the HP Electronic Messaging Solution based on the HP Enterprise Information Server. Figure 2 (L3EM05.gal) Boston Software Works InterOFFICE for HP OpenMail. InterOFFICE for HP OpenMail automates directory synchronization, conversion of revisable documents, conversion of structured messages, and translation of multi-national character sets between integrated office systems. This product includes support for: + HP OpenMail + HP DeskManager + DEC All-IN-1 + IBM OfficeVision/400 + IBM OfficeVision/VM + Lotus cc:Mail + UNIX Mail + Wang OFFICE Keyword Office Technologies Ltd. KEYpak for the HP 9000 KEYpak is an enterprise-wide, mail-enabled document interchange solution. It offers a suite of document content convertors or translators that allow users of different document processing applications to exchange information without fear of losing any of the functionality or integrity of the document. SoftSwitch X.400 Gateway SoftSwitch provides interconnection among many of the electronic messaging vendors and protocols in the industry, including IBM OfficeVision/VM and PROFS. SoftSwitch connects to HP OpenMail networks via its X.400 gateway. Worldtalk Corporation Worldtalk 400 for the HP 9000 Worldtalk 400 for the HP 9000 provides messaging integration, directory services, format translation, and management services for PC LAN electronic mail users. It interconnects HP OpenMail and HP X.400 users with cc:Mail, DaVinci eMAIL, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Mail, Novell MHS, and Quickmail users. Electronic Mail-Enabled Applications The HP Electronic Messaging Solution supports more than person-to- person messaging. HP OpenMail-enabled applications and tools allow corporations to automate business processes and use the HP OpenMail infrastructure to its fullest. HP WorkRouter HP WorkRouter is a mail-enabled work flow application that enables HP NewWave users to automate process-related tasks. Forms, spreadsheets, text, graphics, voice, etc. can be serially routed in a fixed or conditional sequence to users throughout an enterprise, for their review, modification, or authorization. Delrina Technology, Inc. PerFORM PRO The PerFORM product line is a flexible electronic form processor to design, fill, and maintain customized business forms on MS-DOS, MS Windows and HP NewWave PC's. Designers can create new electronic forms and modify existing paper forms that have been scanned. All forms generated by PerFORM can be routed electronically as work objects in HP WorkRouter applications. Dexotek Office Accessories The Dexotek Office Accessories provide HP NewWave users with additional and innovative productivity and security features. The accessories include: scientific and business calculators; safe folders that lock objects; pack folders that reduce the disk space requirements for storing large objects; a paper shredder to immediately destroy sensitive objects; and a search tool for quickly locating stored objects by title, comments, contents, creation date, or object type. Dexotek Unison for the HP 9000 Dexotek Unison is a corporate-wide time management system, specially adapted to HP OpenMail and HP NewWave. Unison provides a distributed databases of time management information enabling users to maintain a personal calendar/diary and to schedule meetings, resources, and events within a work group or across an enterprise. JetForm Corporation/JetForms The JetForm family of products offers comprehensive design, fill, merge, and print tools for developing electronic forms. JetForm forms support intelligent data entry capabilities and can be routed electronically as work objects in HP WorkRouter applications. HP OpenMail API's HP OpenMail API's allow companies to adapt their existing applications to take advantage of OpenMail store and forward capabilities for guaranteed data delivery of mission critical applications. Summary The HP Electronic Messaging Solution provides a complete messaging infrastructure - based on industry standards and open systems. It is adaptive and responsive to new needs, as organizations grow and change. It is designed to meet management and business process needs today and throughout the 1990's. HP Electronic Messaging is the leading-edge choice for corporations committed to an open systems strategy with a client/server architectural approach. HP Electronic Messaging is the leader in the open systems X.400 electronic mail market, and provides flexibility for a choice of clients, connectivity and mail-enabled applications. HP Electronic Messaging lowers overall corporate costs for internal and external communications, locally and globally, through superior reliability and reduced administration. HP Electronic Messaging provides the means for more knowledge workers to share more information on a more timely basis and to make faster, better-informed business decisions. _____________________________ All brand and product names appearing herewith are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.