The Universal Messaging Company

Openwave Messaging is the leading global provider of innovative messaging software solutions. The company’s Universal Messaging Suite™ provides a powerful, open and flexible, complete messaging environment optimized for today’s most complex messaging requirements, including millions of mailboxes, security controls, identity management, and ease of integration with both internal systems and external partners.

Leveraging its strong history of messaging “firsts”, Openwave Messaging is dedicated to helping its customers maintain business continuity and lower their business risk. Openwave Messaging’s global customer base includes some of the largest communications providers.  The company provides products and services that enable service providers to target both consumer and enterprise business-to-business customers, and also partners with leading enterprise companies including Open-Xchange, Cloudmark and Scality, to deliver tightly-integrated best of breed messaging solutions to customers. The features, scalability and security of the Universal Messaging Suite™ helps customers ensure satisfied and loyal users, increase messaging usage, and create opportunities for new and incremental revenue growth. 

Openwave Messaging is focused on delivering messaging solutions for today’s needs and building a future-proof solution for tomorrow’s technology innovation.

Openwave Messaging’s Universal Messaging Suite™ includes the following:

Openwave Messaging is differentiated from other solutions in a variety of ways.  The company’s unique architecture and implementation allows for openness and standards-based integration at the application level.  The company built and delivered the world’s first Active/Active Geographic Redundant/Disaster Recovery (GR/DR) messaging system to allow true five nines availability.  The Universal Messaging Suite™ provides for utmost business continuity, scalability, and reliability with no single point of failure.  Designed to enhance users’ experiences, the company’s Rich Mail user interface acts as a communications hub allowing users to access different social media communities all at one time enabling effective and efficient cross-platform communications using a single interface and login.  Finally, the company’s service APIs and MxOS service layer provides unprecedented openness and integration points for companies to integrate any type of service or application.

Openwave Messaging’s executive team is made up of several messaging industry veterans including; Dave Ratner, President and CEO, Mark Kent, Chief Financial Officer, Farooq Ali, Senior Vice President, Products, Peter Biber, Vice President, Services and Support, and Tracy Allard, Vice President, Worldwide Sales.

In 2012, Marlin Equity Partners announced its purchase of assets from Openwave Systems, and created two new and independent companies, Openwave Messaging & Openwave Mobility.  Openwave Messaging is privately held by Marlin Equity Partners and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Belfast, Johannesburg, Tokyo and Sydney.