Contrary to popular opinion, email is not only still relevant—it’s growing. For email to stay relevant for the next fifty years, email providers need to step up and close a yawning innovation gap. Today’s demanding consumer expects more from their email providers: enterprise-strength privacy and security, cutting-edge functionality, all delivered via elegant, seamlessly integrated tools, anywhere, anytime.
With this backdrop, we are excited to release “Email’s Renaissance”. This paper outlines changing consumer behaviors, attitudes, and habits around email, key challenges facing email providers and the benefits of leveraging the open source community to accelerate innovation.
At Synacor, we believe that a collaborative community that harnesses shared knowledge and expertise can benefit the email and collaboration marketplace. Many of the benefits include: