GOODMAIL AND STRIATA PARTNER TO LAUNCH CERTIFIED EMAIL DOCUMENT DELIVERY

Enables Secure, Reliable Email-Based Transactions Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail Enhances Deliverability and Trust for Striata Electronic Document Presentment and Payment

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif New York, N.Y. – February 22, 2010, Goodmail Systems, the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard class of trusted email, and Striata, a leading provider of secure electronic document delivery, today announced their partnership to launch and resell CertifiedEmail Document Delivery. The new solution enables companies to reliably deliver sensitive documents, such as bills and statements, as a securely encrypted email attachment. It also allows consumers to effect transactions, such as paying a bill, directly from within the email or attachment itself, with just one click.

For financial institutions, phone and utility companies, charities and any organization with a large accounts receivable department, CertifiedEmail Document Delivery offers a fast, efficient, and green billing method with guaranteed delivery - resulting in lower operational costs, higher customer satisfaction, faster payments, and new marketing opportunities.

Striata’s Electronic Document Delivery solution has revolutionized the way sensitive documents are delivered and processed. Feature-rich, interactive, encrypted documents are delivered directly to the inbox, enabling electronic payment from within the email or Document Deliveryument. The Goodmail CertifiedEmail delivery platform, with its rigorous accreditation process, sends highly trusted emails that include a cryptographically secure token, assuring the recipient of the sender’s authenticity.

“The combination of Striata and Goodmail has resulted in a convenient, highly reliable, secure, and easy-to-use document delivery and payment solution driving significant paper suppression adoption and faster electronic payment,” said Mary Byrne, Vice President of Compliance Products at Goodmail. “With guaranteed delivery, the very safe and secure CertifiedEmail Document Delivery solution is another important extension of our growing compliance suite that makes email-based business transactions a reality.”

The key benefits of CertifiedEmail Document Delivery include:

Consumer Convenience

CertifiedEmail Document Delivery is optimized for consumer convenience. Thanks to CertifiedEmail, important documents like statements and notices are assured of arriving in a consumer’s inbox with the blue ribbon icon. Using a unique, “shared-secret” password, consumers can complete a secure transaction with just two mouse clicks—instead of the 12 clicks or more it takes to navigate a complex web portal.

Advantages of secure, electronic documents

CertifiedEmail Document Delivery solution significantly reduces paper, print and postage costs. It provides the ability to integrate advanced functionality, such as repayment calculators, contact detail update forms, callback request forms, cross-selling tools, and basic analysis – within an electronic document.

Security and Trust

Both Goodmail and Striata are focused on security. CertifiedEmail’s accreditation process and blue ribbon icon ensure that only authentic messages are delivered from approved, trusted sources. Striata’s electronic document is highly secure and unphishable, eliminating a key consumer concern about the possibility of phishing attacks and scams in emails. Attachments are secured using the latest in encryption technology, protecting confidentiality.

Marketing Opportunity

In addition to facilitating secure transactions, trusted links in CertifiedEmail Document Delivery messages can also prompt customers to respond to marketing promotions, thus driving qualified traffic to an organization’s web portal.

“Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail enhances Striata’s document presentment and payment solution with an additional layer of trust and authentication that will benefit our joint customers through assured delivery and further consumer trust in opening bills and notices arriving in their inboxes,” said Garin Toren, COO of Striata. “As consumers adopt our solution, so businesses will reap the significant benefits of lower costs and increased interaction with their customers.”

“Like many companies focused on placing email at the heart of critical business transactions, Striata has discovered that Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail technology not only ensures delivery, but also increases the level of consumer trust in their solutions,” said Daniel Dreymann, CEO of Goodmail Systems. “We’re excited to be working with Striata to initiate the roll out of CertifiedEmail Document Delivery.”

For sales information on CertifiedEmail Document Delivery, please visit http://www.goodmailsystems.com/products/documentdelivery or contact Goodmail at learnmore@goodmailsystems.com .

About Striata

Striata’s Secure eDocument Delivery and Email Bill Presentment & Payment (EBPP) are solution sets that deliver a rapid reduction in operational costs, quicker payments and an enhanced customer experience.

Striata revolutionizes how bills, statements, policies, collection notices, letters, paystubs and other high-volume system-generated documents are delivered and paid. Registration requirements are eliminated by emailing feature-rich, interactive, encrypted documents directly to the inbox and enabling innovative 1-click electronic payment from within the document itself. Direct email delivery of bills and statements dramatically increases customer adoption of electronic documents, paper turn off and ePayments. This enables Striata’s clients to achieve rapid ROI; complement their existing self-service and e-communication strategies; significantly reduce paper output and to meet their carbon footprint/environmental impact targets.

As a leading international provider of electronic messaging since 1999 with more than 200 blue chip customers, Striata has operations in New York, London, Sydney, Johannesburg, Hong Kong and partners in North, Central & South America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

For more information, go to http://www.striata.com .

About Goodmail Systems

Goodmail Systems is the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry standard for trusted-class email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic email messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit email senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish email messages which are real and sent from email senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to email senders meeting strict standards for best practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of email available that assures delivery of all opt-in email messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, and embedded multi-dimensional applications like CertifiedVideo™ for streaming video, yielding measurable improvements in email effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by many of the nation's top email mailbox providers and is in use by the very best commercial, government and non-profit senders. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.

 

Goodmail Media Contacts

Heather Haas, Goodmail PR
PR@GoodmailSystems.com