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Set up a voice conference with your colleagues wherever they are, right from your desktop and instantaneously, and drastically reduce your conferencing costs.

Presence awareness (or the ability to see if other collaborators are online and available) has moved beyond person-to-person chat and will power future enterprise collaboration applications.

For the enterprise market, Indigo Software has developed the Indigo InstantConferencing Server™, a solution that combines presence information with enterprise-wide instant messaging and voice conferencing. The result is an enterprise voice conferencing server that provides cost-effective conferencing in a package that is easy-to-deploy, use and administer.

Employees can set up conferences (ad hoc or prescheduled) from their desktop and can participate from their PC or mobile phone. Setting up a conference call with the Indigo InstantConferencing Server™ is just a few mouse clicks away, thus stimulating employees to collaborate more intensively. Above all, this in-house, IP-based conferencing solution allows enterprises to save drastically on their conferencing costs.

The application uses employee presence status information. It is Indigo's view that the use of presence information for Instant Messaging and IP Conferencing is just a beginning: presence status information will soon be reused by other enterprise applications. For a company to control its own repository of presence information in an open, standards-based way is therefore essential.

Features :

• SIP and SIMPLE standards compliant IP-based voice conferencing, powered by Presence and Instant Messaging (P/IM) capabilities

• Ad-hoc and scheduled IP/PSTN audio conferences

• Convenient drag and drop conference setup

• Colleagues can participate from within or outside the company, and from PSTN and GSM endpoints

• LDAP/AD authentication and user search

• IM broadcast to all conference participants

• Built-in media server and media gateway

• Out-of-the-box, on-site deployment

• IVR/DTMF recognition for dialling in from a telephone with PIN code

• Screen showing during conference calls

• Web-based system and user administration

Advantages :

• Save money: avoid the high, variable, costs of the traditional conferencing providers

• Save time: set up an ad hoc conference as soon as you see the participants are available

• Control: own your company's presence information so that it can be re-used for other communications or applications

• Implement gradually: you can incrementally deploy our solution, without having to upgrade your entire infrastructure

• Avoid vendor lock-in: use a solution that is open-standards, that runs on any OS, and is fully interoperable