BlueMind, publisher of the first European open-source collaborative mail solution, continues to grow in Germany as it joins the Open Source Business Alliance.

French software publisher BlueMind, whose collaborative mail solution has already won over 500 clients from SMEs to government ministries, is pressing on with its mission for European technological independence by joining the Open Source Business Alliance (OSB Alliance). This federal organisation for digital sovereignty represents about 170 member companies from the open-source economy in Germany. The OSB Alliance aims to reinforce the industry’s and the administration’s trust in open-source software by working on interoperability and standards, among others.

“The OSB Alliance is the German counterpart to France’s CNLL, the National Free Software Council, which I co-chair,” explains Pierre Baudracco, CEO of BlueMind. “We advocate the same values, we fight the same fights. This is why it made sense for BlueMind to join the OSB Alliance and work on common projects.”

Incidentally, the CNLL and the OSB Alliance are co-founders of APELL, the European Open Source Software Business Association (along with CossFi, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Software, and OpenForum Europe). The APELL acts as an intermediary between national open-source organisations and EU institutions. It aims to get the voices of businesses heard, in particular in the development of European directives or public policies that have an impact on free software companies and their competitiveness.

Germany, a key market in Europe

Europe – including the Franco-German couple – is being confronted with an unprecedented wake-up call on the importance of its sovereignty, and digital sovereignty in particular. In a conflictive geopolitical context with cyber-attacks and technological supply risks at their highest, technological independence is finally recognised as a strategic issue, as the tech community has been professing all along. And the most-exposed, most critical tool we use every day that all our important documents go through — enterprise mail – is left in the hands of US solutions: Microsoft365, Exchange, Google… Why? Because when it comes to email, user habits and organisational conformism trump all.

BlueMind’s goal is to bring sovereignty and user satisfaction together by facilitating all types of accesses and uses. This has been achieved by being the only natively Outlook-compatible solution and offering the best support for Thunderbird, browser-based use and mobile access. BlueMind respects user habits while providing a wide range of features (calendars, tasks, enterprise signatures, linked attachments, videoconferencing, extensive collaborative functionalities, etc.).

BlueMind is already present in Germany

BlueMind, as always focused on its core business as software publisher, is expanding in Germany through a network of integrator partners.

Since it announced its deployment in Germany in 2021, BlueMind relies on two local strategic partners who have already rolled out its solution for several clients: Centaur GmbH and Meier Computersysteme GmbH.

About BlueMind

BlueMind is a complete enterprise email and unified communications solution. As the first European open-source software publisher, BlueMind brings organisations of all shapes and sizes the choice of a sovereign mail solution that reconciles with user habits.
Pierre Baudracco, CEO of BlueMind, has served several times as Chairman of the Paris Open Source Summit. He has been co-Chairman of the CNLL (French National Free Software Council) since 2019.

About the OSB Alliance

The OSB Alliance is a German non-profit organisation made up of public administration institutions, small and medium sized enterprises and leading open-source IT companies as well as proprietary applications and users.

A key objective of the OSB Alliance is to continuously strengthen the trust of the industry and government administrations in open-source software. To that end, it uses a wide range of instruments such as cooperation projects, networking, marketing and public relations.

BlueMind, publisher of the first sovereign European open-source email solution continues to grow and is moving into Germany through local partnership agreements.

A key market in Europe

Europe, and in particular the Franco-German couple, is contending with an unprecedented wakeup call about the significance of digital sovereignty and its technological independence. Yet, key sections of European economy are still under threat. One of them, business email, companies’ most popular and critical IT tool and the hub of all important work documents, is left in the hands of US solutions: O365, Exchange, Google… Why? Because as far as email is concerned, user habits trump all other considerations.

BlueMind is the only natively Outlook-compatible solution and brings the best Thunderbird, web and mobile support. BlueMind preserves user habits while offering a wide range of features (calendars, tasks, corporate signatures, linked attachments, collaboration, etc.).

BlueMind has already won over 500 businesses and administrations including the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Airbus Defence and Space, Thalès, the Marseille City Council and strives to become the European champion of open-source email.

BlueMind CEO Pierre Baudracco explains: “The reason for choosing Germany was self-evident. It’s close to us, it’s at the heart of Europe and they share our perception about the urgent need for digital independence from US monopolies, in particular GAFAM.”

A local network of partners

Just like in France, BlueMind will continue to focus on its core mission as a software publisher. This means that its German expansion will rely on a strong and diverse network of partners to support local clients in their deployment and hosting projects.

One of BlueMind’s first German partners is DECOIT® GmbH who supplies, optimises, supports and provides security for technical IT infrastructure projects as well as develops innovative, client-centric open-source software solutions.

Merle El-Khatib, DECOIT® GmbH’s Marketing Director, says: “Based in Bremen (Germany), DECOIT® GmbH is a system integrator that has been optimising, protecting and maintaining its clients’ IT infrastructures since 2001. Our clients’ needs are always our priority. Our focus on open-source software lines up with BlueMind’s. Although email solutions are core to any business, very few solutions in Germany offer tailor-made features that respond to end users’ needs. We are delighted to be BlueMind’s first local partner.”

About BlueMind

BlueMind is a complete collaborative business email and unified communications solution. As Europe’s first open-source software publisher, BlueMind brings organisations of all shapes and sizes the choice of a sovereign email solution that is compatible with user habits.

Pierre Baudracco, CEO of BlueMind, has served several times as President of the Paris Open Source Summit Programme and has been sitting as co-Chairman of CNLL, the Free Software National Council, since October 2019.

Website: http://www.bluemind.net/

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Jalios, the leading publisher of Digital Workplace and collaborative solutions, is proud to announce its partnership with BlueMind, the publisher of collaborative business messaging and unified communications solutions. This partnership will allow users of the Jalios JPlatform to take advantage of a French open source alternative to traditional messaging solutions. 

Building on the email (JMail) and calendar (JCalendar) modules of Jalios JPlatform, the BlueMind module allows you to benefit from the many email service and calendar management features in the Jalios Digital Workplace, including:

Email: 

• Email display in the topbar
• Notifications for new emails
• Import of emails and attachments
• Mark as read/unread, follow/unfollow
• Mark as Spam/not Spam
• Create a task from an email

Calendar: 

• Calendar display
• Creation, visualization and modification of simple or recurring events
• Meeting planning with time slot proposal
• Move events with simple drag and drop
• Display events of other collaborators or a group of collaborators
• Create tasks from an event
• Reserve Digital Workplace resources (meeting rooms, materials, etc.)
• Create and associate a group calendar to a collaborative space

“BlueMind provides a modern, collaborative, simple solution that is a true alternative to the standard collaborative messaging solutions, notes Olivier Dedieu, Technical Director and co-founder of Jalios. “With this module, emails and calendar events are enriched with information and interactions in the Digital Workplace. Exchanges with collaborators are done directly and simply in the Digital Workplace, and information is more free-flowing and better leveraged, even if it originates from an email or calendar event. The collaborators then have access to emails and events that are “enhanced” by the richness of the Digital Workplace to simplify their daily work.”

“Business messaging is the 1^st external (and often internal) communication channel of organizations. The integration of BlueMind with Jalios will decompartmentalize the information in messaging (emails and calendars) and reuse it in the Digital Workplace. Messaging is the oxygen of communications! But it is not the right tool for storing documents or knowledge! BlueMind was designed with the principles of openness and strong scalability to achieve the type of interface and enrichment achieved with Jalios,” explains Pierre Baudracco, the CEO of BlueMind. “Jalios is the ideal partner and the standard for offering our customers a comprehensive work environment, respecting their digital sovereignty and their users’ habits. We are very proud of this collaboration.”

This partnership is fully consistent with Jalios’s strategy of sovereign offers. “This solution from France is in line with our sovereign cloud strategy. Choosing BlueMind offers a comprehensive and proven French solution and offers an alternative to Exchange or even Google solutions to work efficiently in our Digital Workplace,” comments Jean- François Pellier, Sales Director of Jalios and partnership manager. “BlueMind and Jalios are responding in particular to a growing demand from government departments, local authorities, and public agencies seeking a comprehensive work environment, combining Digital Workplace and collaborative messaging, and thus guaranteeing these organizations the complete control of their data.”