Bitrix Launches Bitrix Intranet Portal 9.0

By Alice Straight, TMCnet Web Editor

Bitrix, Inc. announces the release of Bitrix Intranet Portal 9.0, which provides business-oriented communication opportunities, with the blogs & forums and instant messaging features are reinforced with video conferencing and e-mail processing.

Bitrix Intranet Portal 9.0 customers can create virtual video meeting rooms, make online room reservations with real-time status display in the public calendar and initiate either an instant peer-to-peer video call or a click-away video conference for up to six participants.

The integrated Send&Save technology, duplicates e-mail in the intranet, stores messages in dedicated discussions with shared user access rights and indexes it for the D.I.G. enterprise search engine.

The integrated PRO+PRO security framework contains a new anti-virus module, the product prevents malicious code distribution to end users and provides both detection and disinfection capabilities for automatic purging of infected code. In combination with embedded backup and integrity control, the web anti-virus dramatically amplifies the overall product security, minimizes downtime, and ensures industry-leading business continuity and reputation protection.

Confirming its status as a technological pioneer in Enterprise 2.0 business process management, Bitrix has added a number of important enhancements to this module.

A process can be initiated with regards to a document or a routine activity, owners can modify the process at any stage of its implementation, users can receive assignments directly to their calendars and tasks as well as receive notifications via instant messenger or e-mail. The business processes visual constructor received new functions like issue escalation and decision-making timeout, while the product is now equipped with additional templates for typical activity like business trips and vacation request handling.

Additionally, Bitrix Intranet Portal 9.0 features other enhancements including the ability to enable automatic visual representation of an organization's structure. The user interface was endowed with extended tooltips when browsing employee profiles. The workgroups appearance has changed, offering intuitive navigation and customization with support of tags and tag (News - Alert )-based search.

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