Enterprise instant messaging software for business network

Today, the key factors for successful business are information and people. At the turn of these two factors, the problem of enterprise communication systems arises.

It is not enough to have necessary information, one should be able to instantly (on-the-fly) send it to those colleagues, who are to work with it. A telephone, even a mobile one, may fail to be efficient in such cases, since it would take too much time to ring around a group of people.
At present time, such a problem, as a rule, is solved with the help of email services, however, email is a cumbersome tool, which does not possess due flexibility for solution of everyday tasks. The specialists in business-communications suppose that tomorrow is with instant messaging systems.

What are these systems? Almost any Internet user is familiar with applications, such as ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger, and MSN Messenger. Those are the programs for instant messaging. All of these applications are characterized by the fact that connection between users is performed via Internet and external servers. It is clear that these applications are not appropriate as a system enterprise network communication, mainly in terms of security.

An enterprise instant messaging system should meet the following requirements:

• Autonomy, i.e. such a system should be independent from external networks and servers;
• They should be compatible with an already-set network;
• Setting up and usage should be easy (one should remember that your colleagues may not be equally competent in computer basics, meanwhile you would need to bring business information to everyone without exception);
• There should be an option to create user groups and sending messages to the any amount of users;
• Such software should be sufficient for working and business-oriented;

The LanTalk.NET program meets all these requirements. Besides, there are some very useful options, such as following:

- LanTalk NET is independent of external networks; the application does not require use of any servers. First of all, this will allow you to save on server setting up and installation. Secondly, it substantially increases the level of solution security, since the less intermediates the information passes on the way from a sender to the recipient, the higher is the possibility that this information will be delivered. Any surplus unit in a system decreases its reliability.

- LanTalk NET requires neither adjustment nor administration. This will allow you to save your system administrator's time for more substantial business-tasks.

- LanTalk.NET is compatible with any computer network - LAN, WAN, VPN and (if necessary) the Internet. This means that with the help of this program you can set up an effective network communication system among enterprise units, even if those are separated by a wall, a street or an ocean.

- You can create your own solution on LanTalk.NET basis, which would completely satisfy the needs of your corporate structure. To do that, you would need to contact the software developers and describe your demands concerning the network messaging service.

Problems, which can arise in any large corporate network, are quite different.

1. Notification of the staff about one or another event. Below are several specific examples of such tasks:

a) Due to system functioning failure, the network administrator needs to restart the server, and he/she needs to notify users about necessity to save all data.
b) The staff management department arranges a corporate action, and needs to inform the members of the staff about the date, the place and conditions of participation.
c) The president of the company organizes a meeting to discuss the balance of the work at the turn of the year, and his/her secretary needs to notify managers of the departments and units.
d) The accounts department needs to notify all members of the staff about the necessity to change certain data.

2. Cardinal solution of the problem of unwanted communications during working hours.

Any communication medium installed in a corporate network, leads your staff into a temptation to have chats with each other. To avoid such a phenomenon (or at least substantially decrease its caliber), the LanTalk.NET program has modes, which limit users' rights.

a) The Read Only mode is the most limiting mode. In this mode, a user can only receive messages. He/She can neither send messages, nor respond to messages.
b) The Reply Only mode is a reasonable compromise of unlimited freedom of communication with the "Read Only" mode. A user can reply to a received message, though one can neither send a new massage, nor redirect the message to another recipient.
c) The Free Communication mode gives a user full freedom to send, receive and respond to the messages.

In addition, the modes, which restrict deletion of the messages and/or changing settings of the program, are available. These additional modes can be combined with the modes described above.

3. Business communication recordation.

In business communication, situations when one needs to render one or another conversation word for word are quite usual. LanTalk.NET saves all messages in separate folders (as in Email clients) in order to guarantee an easy access to them. Therefore, you would never lose an important letter.

Our program has a wide range of features for an effective Enterprise instant messaging at an enterprise of any size (more than 10000 clients in a single network). Moreover, our program is being constantly developed, since we always consider opinions and demands of our clients. You can become one of them, and get a unique EIM product for your business. Download the evaluation full-scale version right now, and you will be able to use it during 20 days, free of charge.