Essential is building out its email and collaboration suite infrastructure to meet the needs of the scaling marketplace. 

Enterprise collaboration tools mean productivity for the workplace.  Essential's enterprise suite is based on a leading open source project, then customized, hosted, and supported for a variety of small, medium, and large size businesses.

Our focus has always been on process. While every business develops its own unique processes certain fundamental needs exist for all businesses, including the need for tools such as email, PBX phone systems, text messaging, and mobile services. Equally important are amenities such as personal and shared calendars, shared documents, instant messaging, and web integration.

Most companies have some process in place to manage each of the fundamental business needs, but few have a collaboration suite that wraps all the fundamentals into one package allowing users and administrators more time to do productive work rather than manage process. Essential's tools do just that; they wrap up the core fundamental business needs into one easy-to-use, streamlined package that saves our customers both time and money.

In addition to delivering high quality integrated software, Essential is also committed to providing a hosting infrastructure built to withstand change — even potential disaster.  Using clustered redundancy and geographic fail-over we ensure your company's ability to work even in the event of disaster.  Our three data center locations across the continental US enable us to route  traffic in smart and logical ways.  All of this contributes to our growth and the growth of our customers.

At the root level of Essential's collaboration and messaging software is an advanced configuration of Yahoo's Zimbra technology. Essential's value-added offering of Zimbra is provided under its Workmessages brand.  Included with Workmessages is Zimbra, Asterisk PBX and voicemail software, custom interfaces to databases, and enterprise-level customization and billing tools. To learn more about Workmessages please visit the Workmessages web site at Workmessages.com