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Antepo Unveils New Availability-Based Communication PlatformNEW YORK, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Antepo, Inc. (http://www.antepo.com/), a leader in availability-based communication, today announced the Beta release of Rivoli, the newest upgrade of its award-winning platform, the OPN System. This release enables real-time business collaboration by bringing together Presence awareness, Instant Messaging and VoIP -- essentially creating a new "dial tone" -- while meeting critical business requirements for integration, control, security, compliance, and scalability. "What the enterprise lacks today is an effective way to synchronize its people, its information, and its services. As communications modes converge over IP networks, the traditional dial tone is giving way to a new, more intelligent one in the form of Presence," said Maxime Seguineau, Chairman and CEO of Antepo. "This Presence-aware dial tone drives efficient business collaboration, allowing employees to make communication decisions based on their colleagues' availability, whether they are using Instant Messaging, VoIP, or sharing desktops." Presence Awareness OPN System Rivoli is an availability-based communication platform. Unlike corporate e-mail or phone systems, it indicates whether colleagues are online and available to communicate, and which devices they are using prior to initiating contact. It seamlessly integrates Presence awareness with corporate directories and popular desktop productivity tools such as Microsoft Office, allowing users to quickly find colleagues and synchronize their availability for conversations and meetings. OPN System Rivoli also provides an integration path to tie Presence awareness and collaboration to IP telephony infrastructures through standards-based SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) signaling interfaces. As such, it paves the way for true convergence between desktop and voice communication. Real-time Collaboration OPN System Rivoli facilitates real-time decision-making and information delivery through its native support for SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office. It is tightly coupled with this dominant desktop productivity suite to deliver advanced enterprise collaboration features from directly within Microsoft Office 2003 programs such as Outlook, Excel, and Word. Benefits include native support for Microsoft Windows Messenger clients, empowering users with Presence awareness, Instant Messaging, PC-based voice and video calling, whiteboarding, and application sharing. Federation OPN System Rivoli builds on its award-winning predecessor, OPN System XT, to offer numerous federation and interoperability options with both consumer and enterprise Instant Messaging networks such as AOL, Google Talk, Microsoft Live Communication Server, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging, and Jabber. Its rich external connectivity features allow employees to interact with merged business units and subsidiaries, collaborate with business partners, and serve customers just as easily as co-workers -- ultimately creating cross-enterprise communities that go beyond corporate network boundaries. Performance With new performance improvements, OPN System Rivoli now leads the market in scalability, reliability, and processing efficiency -- offering unseen levels of usage concurrency and message throughput that support the largest user communities. IT administrators will also benefit from new robust reporting and live monitoring features, which foster better overall system health and accountability. Additional information on the features and capabilities of OPN System Rivoli is available at http://www.antepo.com/rivoli/. For a demonstration or to inquire about general availability, call 212-741-6653 or email [email protected]. About Antepo Antepo's award-winning Open Presence Network (OPN) System(TM) is a leading availability-based communication platform -- enabling Presence awareness, Instant Messaging, and Internet telephony, while meeting critical business requirements for control, security, integration, and compliance. Deployed as a complete solution or a strong foundation to build Presence-aware collaboration and voice applications, OPN System supports federation with other IM systems, including certified, seamless connectivity to the AOL Instant Messenger(TM) (AIM(R)) and Google(TM) Talk networks. Antepo is a FIMA (Financial Services Instant Messaging Association) affiliated vendor, a 2006 eWEEK Excellence Awards Winner, and a recipient of the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award in EIM software. For more information, visit http://www.antepo.com/. All brands and names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holders. Antepo, Inc. CONTACT: Kevin McLaughlin of Antepo, +1-877-505-2258 x902,[email protected] Web site: http://www.antepo.com/http://www.antepo.com/rivoli |