BlueTie, Inc. is a Rochester, NY-based company that provides hosted e-mail

E-mail

Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

 services and collaboration tools.

History

BlueTie was established in 1999 by David Koretz— BlueTie Founder and Director—and Tom Golisano

Tom Golisano

Blase Thomas Golisano is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of Paychex, the second-largest payroll processor in the United States and former co-owner of the Buffalo Sabres hockey team and of the Buffalo Bandits lacrosse team...

, founder and Chairman of Paychex

Paychex

Paychex, Inc. is a payroll and human resource service company which serves approximately 572,000 businesses in the US. The company is headquartered in Penfield, New York and has more than 100 locations across the country...

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Services

BlueTie Collaboration is an Ajax

Ajax (programming)

Ajax is a group of interrelated web development methods used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications...

-based Web application, that provides email and collaboration tools through a single user interface and is distributed via the software as a service

Software as a Service

Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...

 (SaaS) model. BlueTie has patented several advanced UI

User interface

The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...

and design enhancement technologies including SimpleClick

Recognition

BlueTie has been recognized through numerous awards including Forbes' Best of the Web award for three consecutive years, the 2007 AdTech LimeLight Award, and was selected by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia Top 100 Winners for 2008.