Headquarters: Newton, Mass.
Technology Sector: Mobile
Key Product: Dexrex Gear ChatSync
Year Founded: 2005
Number of Channel Partners: 3 in the U.S., more partnerships to come
Ideal Channel Partner: Enterprise-focused solution providers
Why You Should Care: Dexrex Gear's data management tool offers storage of text-based communications traffic, including IM, SMS and social media.
The Lowdown: Dexrex Gear is aiming to take advantage of two quickly growing markets: unified communications and compliance infrastructure. "Our initial focus is on the regulated markets. Instant messages (IMs) need to be treated more like e-mail. Companies should have policies of use and effective archival abilities to retrieve specific communications," said Dexrex CEO Derek Lyman. "We see this as something that should be standard and that will become a default: Customers should have a comprehensive data management suite. All [means of communication] should be captured, archived and processed into whatever platform the customer is using."
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| Dexrex Gear ChatSync |
Lyman and CTO Richard Tortora founded the company while the two were students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The two are committed to forging new channel partnerships in the coming months and do not sell the product directly.
"We're all about integrated solutions -- it's not about having our own stack of data," Lyman added. "We're very channel-oriented."