largest U.S. corporations, the top three U.S. cellular providers, and three of the world’s five biggest financial institutions. The company also counts NASA, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Department of Defense, Department of State, and Department of Energy, among its customers.
The company’s customers also are increasingly using MIR3’s system for non-urgent notifications to a number of people using a variety of mobile phones, landlines, e-mail, pagers, and other forms of communications. For example, Moussavian says Procter & Gamble uses the system to alert employees in various offices that a corporate conference call is beginning. Other companies are using the system for product recall notifications, shipping delivery schedules, and even to request monthly sales data from employees in the field. He says the U.S. Air Force even uses the technology to scramble its jet fighters.
More recently, with the dramatic increase in social networks like Facebook, MIR3 has moved to expand its communications platform to unite the corporate enterprise with social media inboxes—creating what the company calls one central and secure “corporate inbox.”
Moussavian explained that Facebook said several months ago that it had formulated plans to consolidate all communication into a single social inbox, essentially becoming the ultimate online switchboard for Facebook users. MIR3’s strategy calls for extending that concept to the enterprise, starting with the company’s strong customer base and using its core technology to develop what the company calls its MIR3 Enterprise Gateway. In a statement from the company, Moussavian says, “We will be able to give our corporate users full control of their communications across any device or social network, creating a single, continuous and secure conversation that is platform independent.”
The company says it is marketing its system to corporate IT executives by emphasizing that its enterprise gateway follows the technology model of the highly secure BlackBerry Enterprise Server and RIM Network infrastructure.
Moussavian says the privately held company has been profitable for the past three years, and MIR3’s technology development has not needed venture capital funding. “I’m one of those people who believes in financing your company through your customers,” he says.
