IntelliReach Corporation Chooses VIMA’s Advanced Image Filter to Combat Pornography in the Workplace

"VIMA’s advanced image filtering will address a growing concern of our clients – objectionable images delivered to the workplace inside of spam.”

Santa Barbara, CA - June 1st, 2003 - VIMA Technologies announced today that IntelliReach Corporation of Dedham, Massachusetts becomes VIMA’s latest customer for VIMA’s objectionable image filtering software.

“We’re delighted to be working with the innovators at IntelliReach to help them become among the leaders in spam and virus filtering. They are one of the first to recognize that spammers are getting more sophisticated and that pornography is becoming an uninvited guest into the workplace,” announced Michael Crandell, VIMA’s CEO.

IntelliReach helps Exchange, GroupWise, and Notes managers tackle their biggest challenges: spam and virus filtering, secure email, email storage and archiving, email policy compliance, and integrated email system monitoring and reporting.  VIMA’s objectionable image filtering software is known as one of the fastest and most accurate in the business and integrates seamlessly across platforms. The software quickly decodes almost any image file format, extracts visual information, and then scores the image according to the filter’s category settings. For IntelliReach,  VIMA adjusted its image filter to recognize the small, tiled email message images when they create a pornographic and otherwise objectionable image.

“We’re anticipating strong customer interest in several advanced email filtering functionalities that we are incorporating into our next product release this fall.  VIMA’s advanced image filtering will address a growing concern of our clients – objectionable images delivered to the workplace inside of spam,” explains Jeff Coveney, IntelliReach’s MessageScreen product manager.  “It’s just another way that IntelliReach is working to deliver the best innovations in a product that intermediate-sized companies can afford.”

VIMA’s patented image search and image categorization processes allow it to lead the industry in content-based image search and categorization for both speed and accuracy.  VIMA is probably best known for the only active learning image search solution in the market and the only company offering tunable image categorization and filtering solutions.  VIMA Technologies, Inc. is a privately financed company located in Goleta California, just across the street from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  For more information, visit: www.VIMAtech.com.

IntelliReach Corporation is the leading provider of powerful and efficient messaging solutions, managing millions of mailboxes around the world.  IntelliReach products focus on the key challenges facing messaging managers: Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, Email Compliance and Archiving, Secure Messaging, System Monitoring and Reporting.  IntelliReach supports a broad range of messaging environments, including, Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Notes and other popular platforms.  Its solutions enable organizations to prevent messaging abuse and failure while achieving increased employee productivity and lowering overall messaging costs. IntelliReach is a privately held company headquartered in Dedham, Massachusetts.  For more information, visit: www.IntelliReach.com.

VIMA Technologies, Inc. is located at 120 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California 93117.  You can reach us by telephone at 805-685-7067 or via email at info@VIMAtech.com.

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