TeleMessage explained

TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides secure enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services.^[1]

History

TeleMessage was founded in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel raising more than 10 million dollars in its first 2 series of investment rounds.^[2] After being acquired by Messaging International plc in August 2005, it then went public and was traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM section under the Messaging International name.^[3]

It received conditional funding of up to USD 900,000 for a joint research and development project for "Secure Rich Communication Services Messaging" in 2015. The funding was provided by the Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation.^[4]

In 2004, Rogers Wireless selected TeleMessage SMS to Landline solution, powered by ScanSoft RealSpeak, for its TXT 2 Landline service.^[5] Verizon Wireless an American telecommunications company started using TeleMessage's SMS service to convert typed text messages into audio messages that play to a recipient's landline phone and the service was launched in June 2006.^[6] Rogers Communications and the American telco Sprint Nextel are amongst others to launch the mail plugin.^[7]

In 2013, five years after Comverse launched the TeleMessage PC2Mobile with a Tier-1 European operator, Sprint started selling the TeleMessage offering to allow doctors and clinicians to send HIPAA-compliant texts.^[8] Delisted from the British stock exchange and privatized in 2017, it joined the G-Cloud public procurement framework and a financial compliance partner program managed by Verint Systems in the following years.^[9]

In 2019, it along with Boku Identity and Deep Labs joined NICE Actimize’s X-Sight Marketplace.^[10] In February 2020, Proofpoint, a Sunnyvale based enterprise security company partnered with TeleMessage to use their Mobile Archiver service for capturing text, voice and WhatsApp messages.^[11] The company is also working with Microsoft in protecting and governing data that is arriving from other Microsoft 365 services.^[12]

On February 20, 2024, the firm was acquired by Smarsh.^[13]

Products

• Mobile Archiver - addresses mobile phone text and call archiving for compliance, regulatory and eDiscovery response requirements. It reduces risk across a variety of industries, capturing mobile content from BYOD and corporate phones; Enabling the captures and archive of: SMS, MMS, Voice calls, as well as WhatsApp and WeChat chats and calls.^{[14] [15] [16]}
• Secure Enterprise Messaging - enables secure enterprise chat for co-workers by using user-friendly mobile apps and a range of APIs that connect to any operational IT system.
• Mass Messaging - provides tools to deliver multi and omnichannel bulk messaging across: SMS, MMS, Voice calls, Faxes, Email, and Mobile Apps.

Patents

• Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system
• Controller for use with communications systems for converting a voice message to a text message

Awards

2020, Best Regtech Solution by Finovate Awards.^[17]

See also

• Comparison of instant messaging clients
• Internet privacy
• Secure instant messaging

References

1. Web site: Raul. Castañon. 2020-09-19. CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February. 25 February 2020. Medium.
2. News: Globes Article . Globes. 25 June 2000. צוקר. דפנה.
3. Messaging International PLC acquires Telemessage . Interactive Investor - August 2005.
4. Web site: Messaging International Gets Up To USD900,000 In Funding. MorningstarUK. 2014-07-22. en.
5. Web site: 2020-09-28. Rogers Wireless Selects ScanSoft and TeleMessage to Power TXT 2 Landline Service. 1 January 2005. Speech Technology Magazine.
6. Web site: LR Mobile News Analysis Light. Reading 6/1/2006. 2020-10-01. Verizon Wireless to Give SMS a Voice. Light Reading.
7. Web site: 2020-10-01. Text Messaging Comes to Landlines. 14 August 2008. PCWorld.
8. Web site: 2020-10-02. Sprint Launches Secure Messaging Platforms for Health Care. eWEEK. 28 June 2013.
9. Web site: Gyorgy. Gyarmati. 2020-09-23. TeleMessage Joins Verint's Financial Compliance Partner Program . 15 June 2020.
10. Web site: 2020-10-01. Boku Identity, Deep Labs, and TeleMessage Join NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace, the Industry's First Financial Crime Management Ecosystem. NICE Systems.
11. Web site: Raul. Castañon. 2020-10-01. CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February. 25 February 2020. Medium.
12. Web site: 2020-10-01. Microsoft 365 gets next generation Compliance Manager and more. Neowin.
13. Web site: Smarsh Completes Acquisition of TeleMessage, Extends Communications Compliance Leadership. Smarsh. 2024-02-29. en.
14. Web site: 2020-09-23. Overview: TeleMessage's Mobile Archiving Solution. 15 April 2020. www.infotech.com.
15. Web site: Boku Identity, Deep Labs, and TeleMessage Join NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace, the Industry's First Financial Crime Management Ecosystem. Picante Today. 4 November 2019 . 2020-09-23. en.
16. Web site: Raul. Castañon. 2020-09-23. CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February. 25 February 2020. Medium.
17. Web site: Tyler. Ferst. 2020-09-23. Finalists Announced for the Finovate Awards!. 17 August 2020. Finovate.