MEDIA RELEASE PR35582
Formicary Leads the Way in Delivering Group Chat to Remote Users, Clients and Partners
LONDON, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
- Secure Web-based, Formicary WebChat Brings Microsoft Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat to On-the-road Employees, Vendors,
Clients and Business Partners
Formicary Limited, a Microsoft Corp. gold certified partner,
has announced the launch of the world's first secure web-based, real-time
reach chat client designed specifically to extend and complement the powerful
features of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 Group Chat.
Until now, organisations were severely limited in their
ability to extend Group Chat to reach-only users, i.e. people who are unable
to access the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat client. "Group
Chat delivers efficient group information sharing and discussions by allowing
users to have topic-based, multi-party discussions that persist over time,"
explained Philip Miller, Director of Intelligent Collaboration Group,
Formicary Ltd. "Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat brought
several new features including the ability to federate the Office
Communications Server installations of different companies together for
business to business collaboration and provide VPN-less access for mobile
users. Now with our WebChat, we further extend Office Communications Server
Group Chat capabilities to users that require web-based access only."
Formicary WebChat addresses this increasingly important
business requirement by extending Group Chat capabilities to internal and
external users. Delivering a fully interactive environment and supporting
persistent contextual history, Formicary WebChat can be accessed via any
major web browser and does not require ActiveX or any other installation -
making it ideal for secure, real time online discussions from anywhere and at
any time. Additionally, Formicary WebChat can be fully customised according
to individual business needs and features the same functionality as Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat client.
Supplied as a complete web based client or as a modular
component tool kit, Formicary WebChat can be embedded within individual
portals or used as a Group Chat web client to improve business relationships
by providing better service and faster response times. "Formicary WebChat was
developed following a request from one of our Investment Banking clients and
due to demand, is now also available for integration into portals including
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007," continued Philip Miller.
Commenting on Formicary's involvement with Microsoft, Jon
Morrow, senior program manager for the Unified Communications Group - Partner
Engineering at Microsoft Corp. said: "Formicary has been working diligently
with Microsoft to ensure smooth client migration to the new Group Chat
feature in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and we are pleased that they
have looked into extending the feature to reach-only users, both internal and
external, which will help to further improve productivity by helping
organisations build stronger, more valuable relationships from the
efficiencies that Group Chat provides."
Formicary's long successful involvement with Parlano's
MindAlign (Microsoft acquired Parlano in 2007) has earned them the status of
"go-to" partner for implementation and upgrade from MindAlign to Office
Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat. From these long term relationships,
Formicary has amassed substantial design and development expertise including
compliance monitoring software tools, add on bots/agents to enhance user
experience, and deployment, migration, and maintenance services.
For customers looking to migrate from their current
environment or implement the new Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group
Chat, Formicary WebChat can also be used to enhance migration and extend the
value of Group Chat - please contact info@formicary.net for further
information and demonstration.
About Formicary Ltd
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
For more information, please contact:
Angeline Cheng, Formicary Ltd, +44-(0)20-7920-7106,
angeline.cheng@formicary.net
SOURCE: Formicary Ltd
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