The mobile email market is at an inflection point and ripe for rapid
growth. All of the pieces of the puzzle are finally in place to drive
mass market adoption: the right handsets, mobile operators that
recognize the value of messaging services and a mobile email offering
that is accessible to everyone. By partnering with leading mobile
service providers around the world, Visto delivers on the promise of
mobile email with an offering that is easy to set up, use and manage,
included with a wide range of affordable data plans and available on
all of the leading handsets.
By
working in real-time with Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and
Internet-based email accounts, Visto Mobile™ pushes the same email,
calendar, contacts and tasks that are available on a mobile worker’s
laptop or PC directly to a mobile phone. All communications are secured
from end to end and messages are never stored outsides the confines of
the corporate firewall.
Through its partnerships, Visto provides mobile service
providers with a single scalable solution to drive revenues and expand
margins. For their customers, Visto liberates today’s busy professional
by providing an easy-to-use mobile email experience that is embedded on
all of the most popular email-ready handsets and available
out-of-the-box.
Customers and Partners
Visto’s customized, brandable solutions are available through leading
mobile service providers worldwide including Cingular, Elisa, Rogers
Wireless, SmarTone, SFR, Softbank Mobile, Sprint Nextel, TELUS
Mobility, Turkcell and the Vodafone Group.
In the past year, Visto has more than tripled its subscriber
base and announced almost a dozen new mobile service provider customers
across North America, Europe and Asia. Visto offers support for over
100 of the most popular email-ready mobile phones, offering an
easy-to-use mobile email experience that is embedded and available
out-of-the-box. These handsets come equipped with Visto Mobile 5.5,
which is making mobile email easier, more secure and more aligned with
how busy people conduct their business and personal lives.
Visto’s commitment to ease of use and mass adoption of mobile
email has driven partnerships with industry leaders including
Microsoft, Nokia, Palm, Symbian and others.
Investors
Established in 1996 and
headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Visto is backed by Oak
Investment Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Meritech Capital
Partners, DFJ ePlanet Ventures, DFJ Growth Fund, Rustic Canyon
Ventures, Allegis Capital, GKM and Blueprint Ventures.
Products
Visto’s flagship product, Visto
Mobile, provides mobile access to email, calendar, contacts, tasks and
other corporate data from today’s most popular email-ready handsets.
The complete solution comprises server, desktop, and device software,
providing a complete mobile messaging service for mobile operators to
rapidly deploy as their uniquely branded solution for their
subscribers.
By partnering with leading mobile service providers from around
the world, Visto Mobile delivers an affordable and easy-to-use mobile
email service works in real time with POP3, IMAP, Microsoft Exchange
and Lotus Domino email solutions for personal and business use,
providing maximum control and flexibility for the operator and choice
for the customer.
Visto enables it’s mobile operator partners to offer a range
of service plans and handsets at price points that make mobile email
accessible to all employees in a company – not just the executives.
Visto's solutions work on the broadest set of wireless devices that
include the Treo handsets with both Palm OS and Microsoft Smartphone,
Microsoft Smart Phone devices, Microsoft PPC integrated communications
devices, Sony-Ericsson P910/990 with Symbian UIQ, Symbian S60, S80
devices from Nokia and Java Enabled devices.
