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Are email and shared calendaring strategic to your organization’s communications even though owning and operating an email system has become a complex and expensive service?


Nearsource, Don't Outsource It!

Nearsourcing is when a trusted provider, one who you may already work with, delivers the services you need. Merit, a non-profit service provider, has been serving the research, educational and health care communities for over 45 years. Chances are we already connect your organization to Merit's powerful fiber-optic network. We are more than a service provider, we are a part of the family, accountable to you and your organization's needs from the beginning! That's Nearsourcing!
  • Email is essential to most organizations, but the cost and expertise needed to maintain an in-house email service can be prohibitive. Thankfully, Merit's comprehensive messaging solution, MeritMail, is affordably priced and easily scalable to meet an organization's changing needs.

  • Powered by Zimbra, MeritMail is a collaboration suite that includes email, calendaring (with Microsoft Exchange interoperability), and document sharing-all accessible from a dynamic web interface. MeritMail includes real-time protection for spam and viruses, keeping unwanted malware off your network. MeritMail email can easily be accessed from email clients, such as Outlook and Thunderbird.

  • Hardware and software is owned and managed by Merit -so you can skip the management headaches. Your organization does not have the capital or operating cost, nor the worries of upgrades, testing, maintenance, archiving, regulatory compliance or system scaling.

  • The MeritMail Collaboration Suite preserves the integrity of your institution. There are never any ads and your data and messages will never be used for marketing or other purposes. Your data is always your property.

  • Unlimited Storage for all MeritMail accounts. MeritMail places no limits on individual storage accounts and doesn't charge a fee for storage used.

  • Merit will migrate your users from your current system to MeritMail. Merit's highly skilled and experienced migration experts will work with you to preserve your current data.

  • MeritMail saves tens of thousands of dollars per year over owning and operating your own systems.

Contact us today about MeritMail.

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MeritMail Features

  • The MeritMail Collaboration Suite supports the highest level of Organizational Branding. Every screen can have your colors, logos and images. Your users will see your organization's identity when they use MeritMail, not ours or anyone else's.

  • Collaboration functions are included like shared calendars, documents, folders and address books. Integrated applications like the social networking Zimlet, Tasks and the document Briefcase, help increase your end users' productivity and collaboration activities.

  • MeritMail has an advanced Web Client or you can use your choice of clients including Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail and iCal. The Ajax-based MeritMail web client looks and feels like a full-featured client application. Drag & drop and contact sensitive menus are standard. For professional and premium students accounts, Active Sync is also provided.

  • Web-based administration tools (for adding and changing users, adding or restricting features and other functions) allow you to administer the system from anywhere, anytime.

  • Connector for Microsoft Outlook is provided for professional and premium student accounts.

  • Cisco IronPort reputation filtering with Sophos AS/AV technology is now standard as our premium anti-spam/anti-virus service in the MeritMail Collaboration Suite. MeritMail screens out the viruses, spam and other malware before it enters your network with state-of-the-art spam and virus protection. MeritMail provides the most advanced protection available and better network performance because we intercept spam and viruses before they get to your network. Black and White listing included.

  • MeritMail Collaboration Suite guarantees its performance with a real SLA. Merit stands behind MeritMail and provides SLA credits if we fail to perform.

  • MeritMail Collaboration Suite is Standards Compliant.

  • 24x7 Support and Train-the-Trainer Training for your Help Desk is included. The Merit Support Center (MSC) supports your Help Desk 24x7x365.

Optional Services available with MeritMail

  • Email Migration Professional Services can be performed from a variety of email systems including Exchange and Groupwise. This service is provided by Merit’s professional and highly skilled Services Delivery team to provide the Member with the most stress-free transition to your new service.

  • Merit WebConnect web conferencing is an enterprise-level web conferencing solution provided in collaboration with AT&T that provides audio and web conferencing accessible through MeritMail and is integrated with the shared Calendars for easy scheduling.

  • MeritList Manager Service provides a web interface to manage distribution lists with full integration with directory services. This hosted, managed service is based on the Sympa platform. The Member is able to select the level of service based on the number of distribution lists the organization needs to manage.

  • MeritMail Archive and eDiscovery saves duplicate copies of all mail sent or received by the users you designate. This is useful for enhanced mail backup or for regulatory and legal compliance. The eDiscovery function allows you to search across all mailboxes in your domain for certain recipients, senders, text strings, types of attachments, and more. In addition to streamlining administrative duties, eDiscovery can aid your organization in complying with official requests for the information on your servers.

Get more information about MeritMail.






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MeritMail Email Accounts for Professionals Brochure is a PDF document. MeritMail Email Accounts for Professionals Brochure
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MeritMail Email Accounts for Students Brochure is a PDF document. MeritMail Email Accounts for Students Brochure
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MeritMail currently serves over 450,000 email users at:
  • Wayne State University
  • Eastern Michigan University
  • Cleary University
  • Cass County
  • The Library Network (TLN)
  • Ann Arbor Public Library
  • Detroit Public Library
  • Internet2
  • Alpena Community College
  • Lamar University
  • Oklahoma Baptist University
  • Western Michigan University
  • and others...





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