Mimecast wins 2021 SoftwareReviews Champion in two categories

Mimecast Limited has been designated a SoftwareReviews Champion in two categories: Secure Email Gateway -Enterprise and Data Archiving, for the year 2021. software reviews, a peer review platform, is a key source of enterprise software expertise and insight, as well as client-vendor interactions.

In their respective 2021 SoftwareReviews Reports, Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection and Mimecast Cloud Archive were named Emotional Footprint Champions. SoftwareReviews uses a net promoter methodology to evaluate 27 components of the customer relationship for Emotional Footprint Reports. These ratings include specific inquiries about the vendor’s experience, resulting in a strong predictor of overall user opinion.

 “The vendor relationship, what we call the Emotional Footprint, has never mattered more than during the pandemic,” said David Piazza, president, Software Reviews.

He added, “Over the past year, the gap between top and bottom-ranked vendors grew by 25% as organizations honed-in on the vendors that provided the most value and exhibited the most flexibility with their services. We expect this upward trend to continue as the pandemic highlighted which vendors rose to the occasion to support their customers.” 

“Providing a high-value customer experience entails so much more than just supporting market-leading technology with superior customer service,” said Heather Bentley, senior vice president customer success and support at Mimecast.

He added, “It includes building customer-centric relationships, providing strong support, delivering simplified deployment models, and helping our customers generate an immediate return on their investment. Most importantly, it means treating each and every customer experience as a true partnership. We strive to do each of these things every day, and these two ‘Champion’ recognitions by SoftwareReviewstell us our customers believe we’re getting it right across the board.”  

Key findings from the reports include:

• The most recommended cloud archive and secure email gateway solutions were Mimecast Cloud Archive and Mimecast Email Security, which ranked first out of nine and first out of six competitors, respectively.

• Both Mimecast Cloud Archive and Email Security received high marks for satisfaction with business value delivered, scoring 85 percent and 84 percent, respectively. 

• Mimecast Cloud Archive and Email Security received highmarks for satisfaction with business value delivered, scoring 85 percent and 84 percent, respectively.

• Mimecast Email Security is loved by 92 percent of users, with the solution leading the market in integrity and displaying benevolence, trustworthiness, and generosity with contract terms.

• All Mimecast Cloud Archive customers intend to renew their subscriptions.

• The organisation achieved high ratings in both categories for its investment in continuing to improve and assisting customers in taking steps to improve.

Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection is designed to keep sophisticated attackers out by combining innovative applications and policies with multiple detection engines and intelligence feeds to protect organisations and employees from spear-phishing, ransomware, impersonation, and other targeted email attacks.

In the Secure Email Gateway – Enterprise Category Report, SoftwareReviews notes, “With a continued release of new capabilities, Mimecast ensures your environment stays ahead of new threats.” One such capability recently announced by Mimecast is the Cyber Graph functionality.   This product component is engineered to use artificial intelligence to create an identity graph, which detects anomalies and leverages machine learning technology to help enterprise organizations alert employees to potential cyber threats.

Mimecast Cloud Archive is built to create a secure, central repository of email, files and other content by aggregating data across multiple platforms, which makes it easier to glean long-term business insight through data archiving. According to SoftwareReviews, “Mimecast Cloud Archive has long set the industry standard for enterprise information archiving, helping to keep corporate knowledge available, protecting and preserving it, all while simplifying management and administration.”