Governments and major organisations advocate national sovereignty, however, they claim that, much to their dismay, there aren\u2019t any European solutions they can use to put this principle into practice. Really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s take a closer look at the IT tool we use the most every day: email, and in particular the extensive R&D work that BlueMind \u2013 a French company \u2013 has undertaken to design an open-source solution adapted to the needs of large organisations, thereby offering an alternative to US tech giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An email solution for large organisations: technical aspects<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nSupplying email to large organisations requires many adjustments and entails overcoming a number of technical and functional hurdles that go beyond the mere resizing of standard components. Here are a few of the issues that BlueMind has successfully resolved to meet these challenges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Object storage (handling large amounts of data)<\/strong>: email messages are increasingly large and storage needs are growing continuously. The messages stored on a BlueMind platform can require dozens (or more) terabytes of space. Handling such volumes of data is an extraordinary challenge for system infrastructures, not to mention related maintenance, backup and management issues\u2026 BlueMind\u2019s object storage<\/a> is specifically designed with volume and resilience in mind. We\u2019ve adapted our solution and developed our own connector which specifically interfaces with several object storage solutions, such as our partner\u2019s, Scality \u2013 a French supplier. BlueMind\u2019s object storage fully fulfils your email performance, scalability and resilience requirements.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Federation (user volume management)<\/strong>: in this instance, this means managing a federation of BlueMind platforms which is designed to respond to horizontal scalability and elasticity demands. This enables smart geographical implementation \u2013 i.e. each platform can be expanded or shrunk depending on your needs \u2013 and helps address possible network, growth or population reorganisation constraints.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
![\"BlueMind's](\"https:\/\/bluemind.purpl-web.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/federation-1.png\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n- Resilience<\/strong>: this is about improving resistance to breakdowns and eliminating or reducing the impact of incidents and operations on end-users \u2013 e.g. by ensuring the redundancy of collaborative and application data. BlueMind is based on technologies that ensure real-time dataflow backups. Specifically, this enables you to replay some or all email interactions at any time and therefore implement BCDR scenarios. This also lets you transform data to adapt it to new versions and perform hot updates, with your users barely noticing. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Successful migration:<\/strong> migrating an email system with several thousand users is a major endeavour involving technical, functional and organisational issues. As a software publisher, we provide advanced tools that help make this changeover as smooth as possible through the \u201cBM Migrator\u201d. You can recover data but also user context depending on the migration scenario you have chosen, transparently and with minimal service disruption. Do have a look (again?) at our webinar on migrating emails from Zimbra<\/a> or from Exchange<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
BlueMind has developed a software infrastructure and tools that let you manage tens of thousands of email users smoothly and reliably. Yet technical challenges are all but the tip of the iceberg. BlueMind has also gained solid experience in the business and storage issues large organisations face and incorporated it into its solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Large organisations\u2019 business and usage issues<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nAdapting an email system to a large organisation isn\u2019t just about upgrading technical capabilities. In fact, the hidden part of the iceberg involves implementing the solution in your particular business context and adapting to your specific usage needs. BlueMind\u2019s extensive expertise as a software publisher has gone into a solution that adapts to different business contexts. How?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- By handling heterogeneous end-user populations with different habits:<\/strong> BlueMind is compatible with all email uses \u2013 mobile devices, webmail (with full UX design<\/a>), Thunderbird, macOS… It\u2019s also, and most significantly, the only European solution that\u2019s natively compatible with Outlook, end-users\u2019 favourite client.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bluemind.purpl-web.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/tous-les-supports-en-1024x789.png\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n- By handling evolving scenarios: <\/strong>withBlueMind you can be confident that you are making the right choice. The client or type of access you choose depending on your end-user population can evolve over time without your collaborative perimeter deteriorating. You can decide to have several email clients coexist within the same end-user population and change it in your own time.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By handling mixed scenarios<\/strong>: BlueMind doesn\u2019t force you to migrate your entire population. BlueMind users can coexist with others on Exchange, M365 or any other solution.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By ensuring accessibility<\/strong>: French public administrations and private companies with a turnover in excess of 250 million euros in the last three financial years are subject to legal digital accessibility constraints. BlueMind has integrated these constraints<\/a> into the development of its solution to design a legally compliant webmail application.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By providing a complete collaborative perimeter<\/a>:<\/strong> needless to say, to provide a collaborative email solution that offers an alternative to US giants, you have to cover \u2013 right now or in time \u2013 similar features and scope<\/a>. BlueMind does just that \u2013 natively or through integration \u2013, with a complete package of collaborative features (email, calendar, tasks, chat, videoconference, documents, etc.). BlueMind is also designed to integrate into your collaborative perimeter through its API core (your business applications, your digital workplace, etc.).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bluemind.purpl-web.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/perimetre-collaboratif-en.png\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n- By managing delegations and roles<\/strong>: large organisations often have several IT teams that manage several user populations \u2013 with a geographical or organisational scope. BlueMind lets you create roles and delegate specific permissions so that you can allocate administration responsibilities according to your company\u2019s hierarchy and organisational structure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By providing advanced features<\/strong>: BlueMind has developed a series of features that facilitate large organisations\u2019 management and use of email, including unified administration for corporate signatures<\/a>, ressources<\/a> and employee transfers, the double bottom trash folder or automatic linked attachments for large files<\/a>.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By offering change management tools and support:<\/strong> BlueMind\u2019s mantra is to reconcile digital sovereignty with user satisfaction. This is what our client portal \u2013 AllBlueMind<\/a> \u2013 is for. It contains all useful BlueMind ressources and materials such as our documentation (user and technical) which is continuously updated. We also have a youtube video channel<\/a> where you can find many tutorials. Finally, we rely on our extensive ecosystem of partners \u2013 technical partners and integrators \u2013 who will know how to help you bring your projects to fruition.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Try a little harder!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bluemind.purpl-web.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/english-meme-1.jpg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nIt is simply not true that there are no sovereign alternatives. As far as email is concerned, BlueMind is proof that \u201cthe choice is here\u201d. Our governments, by consistently demeaning European technologies to justify their short-term choices, are causing devastating damage to our entire industry\u2019s ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They must stop talking the talk of the strategic importance of sovereignty while walking the opposite walk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Federation (user volume management)<\/strong>: in this instance, this means managing a federation of BlueMind platforms which is designed to respond to horizontal scalability and elasticity demands. This enables smart geographical implementation \u2013 i.e. each platform can be expanded or shrunk depending on your needs \u2013 and helps address possible network, growth or population reorganisation constraints.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
- Resilience<\/strong>: this is about improving resistance to breakdowns and eliminating or reducing the impact of incidents and operations on end-users \u2013 e.g. by ensuring the redundancy of collaborative and application data. BlueMind is based on technologies that ensure real-time dataflow backups. Specifically, this enables you to replay some or all email interactions at any time and therefore implement BCDR scenarios. This also lets you transform data to adapt it to new versions and perform hot updates, with your users barely noticing. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Successful migration:<\/strong> migrating an email system with several thousand users is a major endeavour involving technical, functional and organisational issues. As a software publisher, we provide advanced tools that help make this changeover as smooth as possible through the \u201cBM Migrator\u201d. You can recover data but also user context depending on the migration scenario you have chosen, transparently and with minimal service disruption. Do have a look (again?) at our webinar on migrating emails from Zimbra<\/a> or from Exchange<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
BlueMind has developed a software infrastructure and tools that let you manage tens of thousands of email users smoothly and reliably. Yet technical challenges are all but the tip of the iceberg. BlueMind has also gained solid experience in the business and storage issues large organisations face and incorporated it into its solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Large organisations\u2019 business and usage issues<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Adapting an email system to a large organisation isn\u2019t just about upgrading technical capabilities. In fact, the hidden part of the iceberg involves implementing the solution in your particular business context and adapting to your specific usage needs. BlueMind\u2019s extensive expertise as a software publisher has gone into a solution that adapts to different business contexts. How?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- By handling heterogeneous end-user populations with different habits:<\/strong> BlueMind is compatible with all email uses \u2013 mobile devices, webmail (with full UX design<\/a>), Thunderbird, macOS… It\u2019s also, and most significantly, the only European solution that\u2019s natively compatible with Outlook, end-users\u2019 favourite client.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
- By handling evolving scenarios: <\/strong>withBlueMind you can be confident that you are making the right choice. The client or type of access you choose depending on your end-user population can evolve over time without your collaborative perimeter deteriorating. You can decide to have several email clients coexist within the same end-user population and change it in your own time.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By handling mixed scenarios<\/strong>: BlueMind doesn\u2019t force you to migrate your entire population. BlueMind users can coexist with others on Exchange, M365 or any other solution.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By ensuring accessibility<\/strong>: French public administrations and private companies with a turnover in excess of 250 million euros in the last three financial years are subject to legal digital accessibility constraints. BlueMind has integrated these constraints<\/a> into the development of its solution to design a legally compliant webmail application.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By providing a complete collaborative perimeter<\/a>:<\/strong> needless to say, to provide a collaborative email solution that offers an alternative to US giants, you have to cover \u2013 right now or in time \u2013 similar features and scope<\/a>. BlueMind does just that \u2013 natively or through integration \u2013, with a complete package of collaborative features (email, calendar, tasks, chat, videoconference, documents, etc.). BlueMind is also designed to integrate into your collaborative perimeter through its API core (your business applications, your digital workplace, etc.).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
- By managing delegations and roles<\/strong>: large organisations often have several IT teams that manage several user populations \u2013 with a geographical or organisational scope. BlueMind lets you create roles and delegate specific permissions so that you can allocate administration responsibilities according to your company\u2019s hierarchy and organisational structure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By providing advanced features<\/strong>: BlueMind has developed a series of features that facilitate large organisations\u2019 management and use of email, including unified administration for corporate signatures<\/a>, ressources<\/a> and employee transfers, the double bottom trash folder or automatic linked attachments for large files<\/a>.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By offering change management tools and support:<\/strong> BlueMind\u2019s mantra is to reconcile digital sovereignty with user satisfaction. This is what our client portal \u2013 AllBlueMind<\/a> \u2013 is for. It contains all useful BlueMind ressources and materials such as our documentation (user and technical) which is continuously updated. We also have a youtube video channel<\/a> where you can find many tutorials. Finally, we rely on our extensive ecosystem of partners \u2013 technical partners and integrators \u2013 who will know how to help you bring your projects to fruition.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Try a little harder!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nIt is simply not true that there are no sovereign alternatives. As far as email is concerned, BlueMind is proof that \u201cthe choice is here\u201d. Our governments, by consistently demeaning European technologies to justify their short-term choices, are causing devastating damage to our entire industry\u2019s ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They must stop talking the talk of the strategic importance of sovereignty while walking the opposite walk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- By offering change management tools and support:<\/strong> BlueMind\u2019s mantra is to reconcile digital sovereignty with user satisfaction. This is what our client portal \u2013 AllBlueMind<\/a> \u2013 is for. It contains all useful BlueMind ressources and materials such as our documentation (user and technical) which is continuously updated. We also have a youtube video channel<\/a> where you can find many tutorials. Finally, we rely on our extensive ecosystem of partners \u2013 technical partners and integrators \u2013 who will know how to help you bring your projects to fruition.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By providing advanced features<\/strong>: BlueMind has developed a series of features that facilitate large organisations\u2019 management and use of email, including unified administration for corporate signatures<\/a>, ressources<\/a> and employee transfers, the double bottom trash folder or automatic linked attachments for large files<\/a>.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By managing delegations and roles<\/strong>: large organisations often have several IT teams that manage several user populations \u2013 with a geographical or organisational scope. BlueMind lets you create roles and delegate specific permissions so that you can allocate administration responsibilities according to your company\u2019s hierarchy and organisational structure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By providing a complete collaborative perimeter<\/a>:<\/strong> needless to say, to provide a collaborative email solution that offers an alternative to US giants, you have to cover \u2013 right now or in time \u2013 similar features and scope<\/a>. BlueMind does just that \u2013 natively or through integration \u2013, with a complete package of collaborative features (email, calendar, tasks, chat, videoconference, documents, etc.). BlueMind is also designed to integrate into your collaborative perimeter through its API core (your business applications, your digital workplace, etc.).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By ensuring accessibility<\/strong>: French public administrations and private companies with a turnover in excess of 250 million euros in the last three financial years are subject to legal digital accessibility constraints. BlueMind has integrated these constraints<\/a> into the development of its solution to design a legally compliant webmail application.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By handling mixed scenarios<\/strong>: BlueMind doesn\u2019t force you to migrate your entire population. BlueMind users can coexist with others on Exchange, M365 or any other solution.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By handling evolving scenarios: <\/strong>withBlueMind you can be confident that you are making the right choice. The client or type of access you choose depending on your end-user population can evolve over time without your collaborative perimeter deteriorating. You can decide to have several email clients coexist within the same end-user population and change it in your own time.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- By handling heterogeneous end-user populations with different habits:<\/strong> BlueMind is compatible with all email uses \u2013 mobile devices, webmail (with full UX design<\/a>), Thunderbird, macOS… It\u2019s also, and most significantly, the only European solution that\u2019s natively compatible with Outlook, end-users\u2019 favourite client.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Successful migration:<\/strong> migrating an email system with several thousand users is a major endeavour involving technical, functional and organisational issues. As a software publisher, we provide advanced tools that help make this changeover as smooth as possible through the \u201cBM Migrator\u201d. You can recover data but also user context depending on the migration scenario you have chosen, transparently and with minimal service disruption. Do have a look (again?) at our webinar on migrating emails from Zimbra<\/a> or from Exchange<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Resilience<\/strong>: this is about improving resistance to breakdowns and eliminating or reducing the impact of incidents and operations on end-users \u2013 e.g. by ensuring the redundancy of collaborative and application data. BlueMind is based on technologies that ensure real-time dataflow backups. Specifically, this enables you to replay some or all email interactions at any time and therefore implement BCDR scenarios. This also lets you transform data to adapt it to new versions and perform hot updates, with your users barely noticing. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n