Habeas
Company: Habeas, Mountain View, California
Entered by: SHIFT Communications
Company Description: Habeas is a reputation services provider that improves email delivery for legitimate senders and receivers around the world. By aggregating, analyzing, and categorizing the reputation of millions of email senders around the globe, Habeas is making sure legitimate email gets delivered.
Nomination Category: Company, Office & Product Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Most Innovative Company
Nomination Title: Reputation is the Key to the Inbox
1. Tell the story about what this nominated company achieved in the past year (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:
As a reputation services provider, Habeas takes a revolutionary approach to the
spam issue. Rather than focusing on identifying spam, we provide email “credit
scoring” services to commercial senders and receivers of email, enabling
significant inbox delivery uplift for legitimate email.
Unlike other solutions which either control the flow of unwanted email or
package services to legitimize senders, Habeas is a trusted third party which
serves as intermediary between good senders and the volume receivers of email.
Habeas’ customer base includes over 300 brand-name commercial senders –
including Publishers Clearing House, the PGA, and Getty Images. These senders
leverage Habeas Sender Solutions to identify themselves as adopters of email
best practices, to outsource the monitoring and resolution of their email
compliance and deliverability problems, and to increase the delivery rates and
ROI of their email lists. Habeas’ Receiver Solutions enable large ISPs such as
Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL, and large enterprises, government agencies, and
universities around the world to improve their mail filtering accuracy and
efficiency.
Habeas maintains the world’s largest reputation database of high volume emailers. We know who are legitimate senders of email, who are spammers, and who are somewhere in between. Habeas’ SenderIndex email reputation database of more than 300 million email senders is used by more than 5 million email networks in 220 countries and territories around the globe to influence email delivery decisions on billions of emails every day.
2. List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:
Press Releases:
“Habeas Announces Support to E-Commerce Vendors With Email Reputation Monitoring”
http://www.habeas.com/en-US/News/press-releases/Habeas-Announces-Support-to-
E-Commerce-Vendors-With-Email-Reputation-Monitoring/
“Bizanga Partners with Habeas to Eliminate Bad Senders”
http://www.habeas.com/en-US/News/press-releases/Bizanga-Partners-with-Habeas-to-
Eliminate-Bad-Senders/
“Habeas and Simplicita Partner to Help ISPs Identify, Quarantine, and Disinfect
Zombie Hijacked Computers”
http://www.habeas.com/en-US/News/press-releases/Habeas-and-Simplicita-Partner-to-
Help-ISPs-Identify-Quarantine-and-Disinfect-Zombie-Hijacked-Computers/
“Habeas and Email Data Source Partner to Expand Rich Data Offerings to Email
Marketers”
http://www.habeas.com/en-US/News/press-releases/Habeas-and-Email-Data-Source-
Partner-to-Expand-Rich-Data-Offerings-to-Email-Marketers/
“Habeas Launches Next-Generation Email Monitor Service”
http://www.habeas.com/en-US/News/press-releases/Habeas-Launches-Email-Monitor-
Service/
“Habeas Solutions Alleviate Ohio Distinctive's Email Woes, Helps Improve
Delivery Rates and Sender Reputation”
http://www.habeas.com/en-US/News/press-releases/Habeas-Solutions-Alleviate-
Ohio-Distinctives-Email-Woes-Helps-Improve-Email-Delivery-Rates-and-Sender-Reputation/
“Habeas Unveils the Industry’s Largest Email Reputation Database with SenderIndex”
http://www.habeas.com/en-US/News/press-releases/Habeas-Unveils-the-Industrys-
Largest-Reputation-Database-with-SenderIndex/
“Habeas Debuts Program to Help Non-Profits Ensure Their Email Delivery”
http://www.habeas.com/en-US/News/press-releases/Habeas-Debuts-Program-to-
Help-Non-Profits-Ensure-Their-Email-Delivery/
“Habeas and Verisign Help Verify Legitimate Email Senders Through Strategic
Partnership”
http://www.habeas.com/en-US/News/press-releases/Habeas-and-Verisign-Help-
Verify-Legitimate-Email-Senders-Through-Strategic-Partnership/
News Articles:
“IT Can Help Your Emails Fly”
http://www.imediaconnection.com/Newsletter/13360.asp
“Habeas Offers E-mail Reputation Checks to Small Business”
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624894
“Dealing With Spam Filters”
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.
showArticle&art_aid=53544
“E-Mail Reputation: An Important Factor in Restoring Trust”
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/AgBnXAC2iVyn0a/E-Mail-
Reputation-An-Important-Factor-in-Restoring-Trust.xhtml
“Fixing Delivery Problems”
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Article
s.showArticle&art_aid=47391
“Does your PC have a good rep? To send e-mail, it better”
http://news.com.com/Does+your+PC+have+a+good+rep+To+
send+e-mail,+it+better/2100-7349_3-6098447.html
“Beating the Spam Filters”
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=16981&hed=
Beating+the+Spam+Filters
“The Web: Reaching an inflection point”
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20060510-094340-9848r.htm
“Cleaning up a bad e-mail reputation”
http://news.com.com/Cleaning+up+a+bad+e-mail+reputation/
2100-7355_3-6065558.html
“Perspective: Why taxing e-mail senders is a bad idea”
http://news.com.com/Why+taxing+e-mail+senders+is+a+bad+
idea/2010-1025_3-6038948.html
“Yahoo, AOL Email Move Blasted”
http://www.redherring.com/PrintArticle.aspx?a=15628§or
=Industries
3. Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader of this nominated company:
Des Cahill
Chief Executive Officer
Des Cahill brings extensive executive-level experience in marketing, sales and operations from some of America's best-known technology companies-Apple Computer, America Online, Netscape-and from some successful startups-Autonomy, BridgeSpan and eFax.com. Cahill is responsible for all company operations and is a member of the board of directors.
Immediately prior to joining Habeas, Cahill was senior vice president of
corporate strategy at BridgeSpan, a Benchmark-Sequoia real estate-services firm,
where he was in charge of all marketing, business development and corporate
development activities. As a member of the original management team, Cahill
helped grow the company to 300 employees and $40M in annual revenues.