SocketLabs, Inc., the leading provider of on-premise high volume email marketing server technology for the Microsoft Windows platform, announced today that Travelex, a world leader in foreign currency exchange and business payments, chose Hurricane MTA Server to power delivery of its bulk email (http://www.socketlabs.com/products/send-bulk-email) and transactional-based email for its GlobalPay payments platform.
Travelex Group is a multinational company that has three key businesses operating throughout the world: the Global Business Payments business provides international and domestic payment
services for commercial and personal customers; the Retail business has over 700 locations throughout airports and various tourist locations; and the Outsourcing business provides
outsourced travel money services to financial institutions and travel agencies.
Travelex has several in-house systems that supply electronic invoices to customers via email. Travelex was looking for a commercially available SMTP server (http://www.socketlabs.com/products/smtp-server) that provided not only good deliverability and tracking, but also could be integrated
with the Microsoft-based applications they were running.
Hurricane MTA Server solved all of our System generated email needs, with its excellent API for application integration, all in one robust, very powerful email application. Their support
specialists and application engineers are world class and were extremely helpful and responsive in getting the system properly tailored to our needs, said Andy Labenz Travelex, Sr.
Systems Architect.
After a comprehensive search, Travelex determined that SocketLabs's Hurricane MTA Server was the best fit for its internal requirements.Hurricane MTA Server was the only true
enterprise-class, Windows-based SMTP server. It integrated perfectly with their internal applications via its .Net plug-in API to provide the real-time tracking capability they needed.
Deploying Hurricane MTA Server enabled Travelex to unify the sending of email from their major customer-facing systems, thereby saving on administrative costs and providing a higher
degree of reliability for their electronic communications to their customers.
We are pleased to be able to provide a reliable,scalable bulk email (http://www.socketlabs.com/products/bulk-email-server) solution for a global company the caliber of Travelex, remarked John
Alessi, President of SocketLabs, Hurricane MTA Server is a perfect fit for companies like Travelex who leverage email to delivery digital invoices and other important customer
communications.
About Travelex
Travelex is the world'ss largest foreign exchange and international payments specialist with over 700 retail branches and 25,000 business customers, operating through subsidiaries and
branches in five regions: the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Americas, and Asia Pacific. Over 40% of travelers and 1.5 billion passengers pass through airports at
which the business operates, including the major gateways at London, New York, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Sydney. As one of the world'ss leading providers of outsourced travel money to
banks, travel agencies and other retailers, it provides products including its Cash Passport prepaid currency card to over 1.75 million customers annually. Through its world-leading
automation Travelex offers consumers a full range of delivery channel options including telephone and web-based ordering. For more information go to http://www.travelex.com and http://www.cashpassport.com.
About SocketLabs, Inc.
SocketLabs, Inc. is the leading provider of high volume on-premise marketing and transactional email delivery solutions for the Microsoft Windows platform. With over 10 years experience
in building email systems, and solving deliverability issues, SocketLabs helps organizations achieve scalability and hit the inbox. Visit http://www.socketlabs.com for more information.
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