Bloomba, the world's first search-based e-mail, developed by Chennai-based iSoftTech for its US client Stata Labs, is now available in India.
Bloomba, which was earlier launched in the US last month, is being targetted at individual professionals who are extensive users of e-mails, said Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala, professor, IIT Madras and a founder of iSoftTech.
"Bloomba is simple to set up on your desktop," he told a news conference in Chennai.
Bloomba's search features allow e-mail users to effortlessly search and find e-mail, contacts, attachments.
"It ultimately ends the need for traditional folder-based filing and tracking," said Ellen R Salisbury, senior vice-president (products and services), Stata Labs.
iSoftTech will be the re-sellers for Bloomba in India and the first re-seller to be appointed by Stata Labs in Asia.
"Bloomba has been proven to meet specific needs of heavy e-mail users and businesses without the cost of expensive server-based enterprise solutions," Ellen said.
Priced at Rs 1,499, the product can be downloaded from the iSoftTech Web site.
Vijay Babu, president and COO, iSoftTech said about 15-20 software professionals at iSoftTech had worked for the last two years for developing the product.
Apart from the powerful search engine capability, Bloomba is also bundled with Saproxy Pro 2.0, a spam protection software built on the open source SpamAssassin, he said.
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