Cloud computing is by no means a new phenomenon. In the last few years, the cloud has gained widespread popularity amongst SMEs and even large conglomerates facilitating flexibility, not to mention it cuts the cost of hardware and is environmentally friendly.

It’s been exactly a year since the launch of Mindlink’s v3. We released an up to date version earlier this year, in April, focusing on the enhancement of an effortless user experience.

Following the release of the MindLink v3 Product Suite (Version 16.6) during Q2 2016, including both web and mobile clients, MindLink v3 has continuously evolved to maintain its status of providing the leading user experience as an enterprise chat application.

A Forbes study states that 55 per cent of enterprises predict cloud computing will enable new business models. We agree but what is 'the Cloud'? Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud....Here is what you need to bear in mind when it comes to your business, your systems and keeping control & security.

London, UK – 16 February 2017 – MindLink™ has launched its latest software release which focuses on bringing more first-rate security features to the enterprise messaging platform. 

London, UK – 31 January 2017 – MindLink™, provider of highly secure Chat and Messaging applications for global businesses, announced today the reappointment of Joseph Do as its Chief Executive Officer effective January 2017.  

London, UK – 31 January 2017: MindLink, provider of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) solutions for global businesses, and Mobco, a leading mobile IT firm in Belgium, have today announced a reselling partnership agreement. 

Mobco will be offering secure messaging & chat solutions to its clients to support collaborative working on-the-go. A MobileIron partner with over 6 years’ experience in working with mobile technologies, MindLink’s secure messaging app fits in perfectly with Mobco’s mobile business focus.

What a year it has been! In 2016 the enterprise chat & messaging market has heated up to boiling point. Microsoft launched ‘Teams’ in November, Facebook launched Workplace in October, Slack has raised several hundreds of million in funding and an army of new chat apps have flooded the cloud-messaging market.

Top 10 MindLink Moments of 2016

[A personal account of our support engineer's first Bot experience]

[When Chat Owners and Budget Holders aren’t the same] 
We explored ownership challenges and the emergence of a new breed of chat owners ie. The Chief Collaboration Officer, in our last blog. Now we are looking at another challenge and how it can be addressed.

[From Ownership Challenges to the Emergence of the first Chief Collaboration Officers] 
Chat is ubiquitous. It’s everywhere – literally. In their private life’s, people set up their birthday parties on WhatsApp™ and Facebook. When at work, staff use the enterprise chat alternatives provided by their employers.

Millennials’ use of technology and affinity with the digital world clearly sets them apart from the generations before them. They’ve grown up in a world crowded by broadband, smartphones, laptops and social media and they expect instant access to any information they require.

Shadow IT is a term often used to describe information-technology systems and solutions built and used by employees without approval, or even knowledge, from the firm and/or the IT department. Corporate teams use whatever equipment is accessible to them to get the job done – this includes consumer and social apps within the enterprise to exchange critical and often business sensitive information.

(If you are also looking to find out how Teams fits with Groups, Yammer and SharePoint, check out our future blogs. Here we explore the relationship between Microsoft’s two major messaging tools and explain where they both fit)

London, UK – 25 October 2016: MindLink™, provider of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools for global businesses, has been nominated as “Mobile App of the Year” at the UK IT Industry Awards 2016, ran by Computing and the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. MindLink’s enterprise messaging and chat platform competes against high-profile companies such as Accenture, Allianz Insurance and Specsavers, being recognised for innovating and providing enterprise-ready tools for mobile use.

The pressure on businesses to squeeze every possible pound/dollar/euro from their organisations has forced many to rethink how to rationalise operations and work smarter. The reasons are manifold: threats of recession, increased competitive pressures in a highly globalised world, increasingly outdated legacy systems and working practises to name but a few. Uncertainty brought on by the much discussed Brexit vote hasn’t instilled any calm or confidence either. 

Don’t have 5 minutes to read in depth white papers or datasheets?

London, UK – 15 September 2016: MindLink, provider of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools for global businesses, has today announced the results of an independent study it commissioned regarding the use of chat & collaboration technology within the financial services sector.

(Managing resistance to tech adoption). So you’ve decided to adopt a new messaging tool for your business. That’s a great start. According to McKinsey, collaboration apps can raise your employees’ productivity by an average of 20%-25%. However, Gartner has estimated that four out of every five digital business efforts may not achieve their full intended benefits, due to “inadequate leadership and an overemphasis on technology”.

London, 30 August 2016:  MindLink, provider of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration for global enterprises, today announced the availability of its enterprise-ready messaging app for users of Good Technology on Android devices. MindLink for Good combines the chat & messaging app with MDM container technology from Good Technology™ for highly secure mobile collaboration.

One of the greatest issues facing businesses in 2016 is cybersecurity and the risk of data breaches and hacks.

Yahoo Messenger has now officially discontinued support for its legacy messaging and API service on August 5, 2016. (TechTimes) Whilst the download of the app was already restricted, users can now no longer access or log in – a major issue for many global businesses.

London, UK – 10 August 2016 – MindLink, provider of Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) applications for global businesses, today announces its security integration with VMware AirWatch®.

As featured in Sunday Times/ Raconteur Special Report: 31st July 2016

Compliance has been a dirty word in financial services for several years now. But lately the regulatory burden seems to be driving many in the industry into the realms of nervous breakdown, with 87% of global banking CEOs citing over-regulation as an outright threat to growth. (PWC’s 19^th Annual Global CEO Survey: Banking and Capital Markets).

London, UK – 20 July 2016: MindLink today announces the availability of its next-generation software & User Interface (UI), redefining how messaging & chat applications for businesses look and work. In addition it meets stringent data security requirements and regulatory compliance needs.

London, UK – 06 July 2016: MindLink, provider of highly secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools for global businesses, has been crowned ‘Collaboration Product of the Year 2016’ by the reputable Computing Vendor Excellence Awards.

We didn’t see that one coming! $26.2 billion … in cash – that’s what Microsoft paid last month to acquire LinkedIn, the social network for professionals. It wasn’t just the price tag that made people catch their breath (well let’s be honest it probably was) but also the choice of ‘partnership’.

MindLink, developer of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools for business, is in the shortlist of vendors on 2 categories in this year’s Technology ARC^TM for Mobile and IoT report, published by analyst house Aragon Research.  

Right - so everyone is telling you that Email is outdated and messaging is the real-time way forward.
That is, of course, until your chat service goes down and you are forced to revert back to carrier pigeons and memos. The look of ‘good old Email’ doesn’t seem quite so bad after all, does it?
But wait a minute!

In the past few weeks the world has gone ‘Chatbot’ crazy with announcements of new ‘Chatbot Shops’ and Connectors on a near daily basis. What started with Facebook’s announcements of its Messenger Bot Store, has already been in the works for quite some time, see Google for instance. Apple and Amazon too are working on their own iterations of intelligent bots. And so is Microsoft with Cortana and Tay (well, let’s maybe not talk about the latter).

London, UK – 19 May 2016: MindLink, leading provider of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools has announced it raised US$1million in its recent funding round.            

375.000 user licenses sold, the likes of RBS, Pictet and Redburn amongst our customers and a string of industry award allocates – MindLink is on the move. Where to?

London, UK – 28 April 2016: MindLink Software (MindLink), developer of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools for businesses, today announces two major partnerships with NeWay Technologies, an Israeli consulting and management services firm, and CWSI, a leading Mobile IT Integrator in the UK and Ireland.

Satya Nadella has previously declared “bots are the new apps” with Microsoft already having launched a few highly publicised examples; such as Cortana, a personal assistant type bot designed for its Windows 10 platform or Tay, which made headlines for not quite the right reasons. Now Microsoft launched its Bot Framework.

1 billion+ users. 330 million of which use the app for business purposes and happily share the latest HR files, sales pipelines and company intelligence over the messaging app.

London – 05 April 2016 – MindLink, developer of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools for businesses has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region.

The Digital Revolution

There is still confusion within the analyst, journalist and vendor-community itself, as to what Chat Enabled Collaboration actually entails and where certain vendors fit. There are at least three distinctive differences that can be observed between CEC providers which we will examine in this week’s blog.

CEC – or Chat Enabled Collaboration - is fast becoming a staple in the corporate IT repertoire. We looked at the new category in detail in last week’s blog, looking at the technologies it entails and its important. This week we will examine how this new category emerged and its benefits over traditional communication tools.

• Are you using a CRM system? Most likely
• How about ERP? Probably
• And what about your CEC applications? ...

CEC – or Chat Enabled Collaboration is taking the (business) world by storm and is certainly an acronym to watch out for. And for all that you know most of your employees are already using CEC applications to enable better internal communication & collaboration – driving your business forward.

Much has changed at MindLink! And to reflect our achievements in terms of new positoning, product launches, dozens of new customers in the financial space and beyond and a growing media coverage, we have been working hard in the past few weeks to make sure our online presence stands out too!

London, UK – 04 February 2016: MindLink Software (MindLink), developer of highly secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools for businesses has been announced as a finalist in the Mobile category at the Tech Trailblazers Awards.

London, UK – 19 January 2016: MindLink Software (MindLink), developer of secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (CEC) tools for businesses, and ISEC7 Group, a leader in consultancy and software development for mobile enterprise solutions, have today announced their strategic partnership to offer enterprises secure and compliant collaboration tools, in the office and on the go.

Since the 90s email has been the main tool of communication between remote teams within the same company or even between different organizations which happen to reside on different time zones. Taking into consideration the pace of business today and the need for an ever increasing sense of real-time communication when working, is this enough? 

2015 was a momentous year where we realized our biggest growth to date having sold our secure Chat Enabled Collaboration (#CEC) solutions to some of the most prominent names in the financial markets and beyond.

1 billion users and counting. What makes for some impressive numbers when it comes to user adoption and pervasiveness, may well be the downfall of many a business.

Earlier this month, we attended one of the biggest tech conferences in Europe, Web Summit. Dubbed the event ‘Where the Tech Worlds Meet’, it was packed with keynotes from some of the biggest names in the industry such as JP Rangaswami from Deutsche Bank, Alan Boehme from the Coca Cola Company, Bill Briggs, CTO of Deloitte and many more, alongside investors and media from around the globe.

The use of emoticons (aka emoji) in our everyday life has increased significantly during the last decade. The growing popularity of social media and the need to share every moment of our lives on the internet has led to the development of a variety of expressive means that can help people show their emotions. Yet, their contribution to the improvement of online communication has been overlooked by many.

MindLink, a highly secure messaging and enterprise collaboration platform, has today announced its integration with Microsoft's Skype for Business platform. This will enable users of Skype for Business, to access Messaging & Chat channels (also called Persistent Chat) across their Mobile devices (including MDM support) as well as Mac & Linux. The newest announcement complements MindLink's already existing integration with the Microsoft Lync UC platform.

I watched Stewart Butterfield’s keynote discussion at Web Summit with some interest today. Many of the themes he discussed were close to our heart: the eradication of email as the mainstay of enterprise communication, providing real-time collaboration and serving people better.

MindLink, provider of a highly secure, rich messaging and collaboration platform for enterprises, today announced the availability of MindLink for Good, combining the MindLink enterprise chat app with secure container technology by Good Technology™, a leader in secure mobility. The Good-secured app enables MindLink to offer highly secure mobile collaboration communications to Good Technology customers using Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business.

This is a guest blog contribution from Chris Williams, an IT enthusiast & Content Manager who trialled our software during the MindLink Free Trial. (Full profile towards the end of the blog)

Mobile Collaboration is a hot topic on every CIO agenda today. How do you go about enabling secure messaging for your increasingly mobile workforce? Analyst house Aragon Research has published its annual Tech Spectrum™ report for Mobile Collaboration evaluating 13 top vendors in the space.

Chat apps help to cut email usage by up to 75 per cent, boosting productivity. Here's the business case for getting chatty.

MindLink cements its leadership position providing compliance tools for chat and messaging products

“More than 40% of all software applications are released with between one and 10 critical defects”, according to the SD Times. A worrying number. How can this be avoided? 

MindLink offers trial of enterprise chat to organisations using Microsoft Lync or Skype for Business - offering unlimited device support, added security and integrations.

Guest Blog Contribution - by our partner BlackBerry

Enterprise chat vendor, MindLink, was today named in Aragon Research 'Hot Vendor' report. It was applauded for its seamless integration with Lync/ Skype for Business, its compliance and security functionality.

MindLink, developer of secure, integrated Enterprise Chat applications, has today announced the appointment of Justin Forrest as its new global CEO.

MindLink Compliance for Instant Messaging and Group Chat helps Group One Trading meet stringent compliance needs.

MindLink sees significant growth in app downloads, users licences and a new wave of mobile users.

Ever wondered what exactly Marketing does? A simple definition would be “*marketing is everything a company does to acquire customers and maintain a relationship with them” - In a more detailed context,  Marketing is a function responsible for upholding your brand name in the world of scrutiny and driving interest to your value proposition with the ultimate goal of growing your revenue.

Were you at the Ignite conference this year? If not, you missed one of the biggest technology events combining Lync (now Skype for Business), SharePoint, Exchange and more, to build the 21st century collaboration experience- with the central focus being around Innovation & Productivity. Here are a few event highlights, some key learnings and news about the latest collaborative technologies concluding with what to look out for in the enterprise collaboration space.

MindLink Enterprise Chat for Lync & Skype for Business is Verified as Citrix Ready - adding security to your collaboration strategy

In the last two decades, many organisations have found user support and incident management challenging. Whether it’s balancing social media monitoring to understand user feedback, where to place call centres, how to use web chat technologies or how to prioritise internal support, most companies have come under unwelcome scrutiny at some stage.

MindLink’s Integration Brings Enterprise Chat for Microsoft Lync to MobileIron App Ecosystem

The Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) trend has become commonplace in today’s corporate society, with an increasing number of organisations allowing employees to use their own, pre-approved devices at the office or at home. 

Guest Blog Contribution - by our partner BlackBerry

The demand for business collaboration is big, and only getting bigger. A 2014 forecast by analyst group Markets and Markets predicts that the enterprise collaboration market will grow from $47 billion today to over $70 billion by 2019.

“We use email to collaborate.” We’ve heard this a million times already. Enterprises are still baffled on the difference between collaboration and communication. “But how do we collaborate?” Or should they ask “What do we collaborate with?” Is it the tools or the culture that enables employees to collaborate well? Why are enterprises still disinclined towards the idea of collaboration with dedicated tools instead of emails?

MindLink provides central place to access information & system alerts for more effective IT management - keeping C-level & management proactively up-to-date.

Earlier this month, Facebook revealed that it is working on a spin-off product focused on workplace communications, which will enable users to keep professional contacts separate from the personal details they share with friends.

High security chat rooms coupled with SharePoint provide collaborative backbone to help manage international operations across agencies.

Company description
This agile military organisation with a government approach has the aim to support enduring stability and peace in Europe and Eurasia across 51 countries. Working across multiple agencies and jurisdictions in the region, it addresses a multitude of security incidents and challenges across the highest Intelligence ratings and reports (IR).

Chat is no news to the corporate world.  Something that seeded in the financial industry over a decade ago, investment banking in particular, has spun out into other sectors (regulated or not) to being an established staple for enterprise collaboration in virtually any industry and company of any size. Yet many firms fail to generate measurable ROI in terms of reducing support costs for instance or improving productivity and operational efficiency. Collaboration is unachievable without the instantaneous sharing of knowledge; still many businesses fail to realise the real value of group chat. So here we are with our take on the common misconceptions of chat and what is stopping companies from adopting it.

Web-based, secure chat rooms allow project teams, developers and HQ staff to collaborate in the office and on client site – on Windows, Mac or Linux.

Who is Formicary?
Formicary is a systems integrator for the capital markets specializing in trading systems integration and migration, OTC Clearing, managed services and bespoke software. Formicary’s clients include tier one investment banks and buy side firms.

It may feel like summer isn’t long gone, but Christmas will soon be front of mind for many people. Many of us will be planning to enjoy a long break between Christmas and New Year, while others will have to continue monitoring their phones and responding to emails as they continue to work remotely. Some even less fortunate folks will be at their desks, continuing to serve the needs of clients.

Nearly 60 per cent of British employees* use apps on either a mobile or tablet device in the workplace every day and it is predicted that by 2015 the number of workers using these devices will surpass 1.3 billion**. While a recent study found one in five people are now thought to be using dedicated department-specific business apps*, most people still rely on consumer apps such as Facebook or WhatsApp to share sensitive data.

MindLink Mobile, the Enterprise Chat application, is today available on Android devices after MindLink became the first company to bring Persistent Chat via Microsoft™ Lync to the platform. The mobile app, which is already accessible to iPhone and Blackberry users, allows workers to coordinate and securely exchange vital business data, in real-time across a company.

MindLink Software, developer of secure, integrated Enterprise Group Chat applications for Microsoft™ Lync, launched in 2011 with the aim of transforming how employees collaborate and share information to make better, faster decisions.

Unleashing the developer in everyone

Lync 2013 ships with a Web API called UCWA, the problem is it’s almost as complex to use as the more advanced .Net SDK, and is a significant barrier to developers unfamiliar with Lync. Furthermore it isn’t designed with control in mind, so once you connect you’re free to do whatever you like with no restriction on message rates or monitoring.

London 08 October 2014- The demand for secure enterprise chat apps continues to rise with the growing Bring Your Own Device and Choose Your Own Device trends. Corporations are seeking out and implementing technology which meets business critical requirements as well as the communication needs of modern day professionals. 

Getting Everything You Need To Make Better Decisions 

Making decisions is hard. Making the right decisions without all the right information is harder. To make effective choices you need everything that matters in front of you, or at the very least you have to remember everything in context.

MindLink launches Compliance Connector to ensure Yammer data is compliant and safely stored within existing long-term storage systems.

London, 09 September 2014: MindLink, developer of secure, integrated Enterprise Group Chat applications, is now providing a robust and cost-effective compliance solution for Yammer users.

Chat – we all do it. Yahoo, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, BBM - the list is endless. Chat is a term that we use every day and has become an integral part of our daily lives regardless of our profiles. Yet why do we chat?

Chatting is in essence communicating, although it doesn’t strictly follow its original definition of “Talking”. Today, chat is all about exchanging information in the form of files, documents, links or simple texts, real-time. Whether you are an individual who uses chat to communicate with your friends and family, or an employee using chat to exchange valuable information across your team, Chat has become the new form of disseminating information and it is rapidly replacing Email - the soon to be obsolete communication tool of the 80s and 90s.

Guest Blog Contribution - by our partner BlackBerry

The days in which the assignment of a corporate-owned mobile device meant all work and no play are over. Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) has evolved to the point where even highly regulated industries now offer the option of allowing workers to use company-issued devices for personal computing and communications activities, such as social media, game playing and other types of digital entertainment. These mobile device and application management advances, along with the rapid acceleration of workforce mobilization and its expected impact on an organization’s ability to secure corporate data residing on an increasingly diverse collection of employee-owned devices, is prompting a surge of interest in complements or alternatives to BYOD.

Introducing any form of new technology into a business will invariably have an impact on the company culture. But should the latter act as the true driver of organisational change? Technology can be a catalyst for change, yet culture has the power to nurture forward-thinking tech adoption and long-term business growth.

In 1971, computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first ever email, which read “QWERTYIOP”, or something equally forgettable. Since then, email has evolved to become a crucial communication tool for both personal and professional use, but over the last five years in particular, the way in which businesses operate has changed dramatically. In response to the more mobile, social and ‘always-on’ demands of modern business, we’re waging a war on email in favour of purposeful collaboration tools that help people work more efficiently and productively.

According to market research firm Radicati, 182.9 billion emails were sent every day in 2013. Just take this in for a moment – 182 900 000 000 a day. There’s no doubt that email is the most widely used professional communication tool, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s still the most appropriate or efficient. In fact, the sheer number of emails we send and receive every day is a part of the problem. People face increasing demands on their time as a result of cluttered email inboxes. Consequently, traditional communication channels such as email have become a hindrance rather than an enabler. They must evolve to fulfil not only communication requirements, but also collective business needs such as scheduling meetings, sharing data and collaborating on documents.

Last week, MindLink exhibited at the cutting-edge, techiest event of the month, and possibly the year, in London - Enterprise Apps World. The event, co-hosted with Cloud Forum 2014, provided a fantastic showcase for innovative app producers (like ourselves) to display their latest productivity apps for today’s technology oriented enterprises. The event was filled with a large array of audiences (about 8000 who attended the Cloud Forum simultaneously) representing a wide variety of industries and roles who showed a great interest in MindLink’s Business Critical Collaboration solutions built on Microsoft Lync.

A popular refrain ringing through the enterprise mobility community is that IT departments must evolve their mobile management approaches from device centric to app centric. The reasoning is that while mobile devices enable users to do their jobs at any time or from any location, the apps running on those smartphones and tablets are the engines that propel end-user productivity.

Condensing your working environment to the size of a 10” inch tablet is no small undertaking. The lack of multiple, moveable windows and task visibility further compound this issue. So what do you usually end up doing? Switching between numerous apps and windows. Focused on only the foreground and not the background. There are implications to missing key business decisions.

Guest Blog Contribution - by our partner BlackBerry

BYOD is largely a behavior-driven trend. It came about when end-users were driven to utilize their own devices for work due to limitations on the personal use capabilities of corporate-issued devices, as well as privacy concerns. Those users who found corporate-issued smartphones or tablets satisfactory for their “off-duty” communications needs were often turned off by fear that personal information, such as photos and private email accounts, could be deleted or perused by the IT department or other entities within the organization.

In our last blog we looked at the importance of a well thought through chat room structure, its benefits and the 5 types of chat rooms that are the basis of all chat room architecture. This weeks blog will be looking at a real-life example, the principles of centralised vs decentralised management and maintenance and the creation of naming conventions.

Attending the Microsoft Lync Conference in February, it was great to be able to meet a multitude of people from all sorts of companies who are using, deploying, or administering Lync Persistent Chat. What’s more, this year, the number of new Persistent Chat adopters had increased triple-fold, as more and more organisations begin to realise the value of implementing Enterprise Chat to drive their team-based collaboration needs.

Blue Light Services are critical to keep a country's fundamental services running smoothly. Collectively referred to as Blue Light Services, they consist of the Police, Fire & Rescue and Ambulance Services. Treasured as a National asset, they uphold a country’s services and most importantly protect the Public.

Their duties are manifold: It involves saving lives, maintaining national safety by preventing crime, rescuing houses as well as livestock during major incidents such as floods and fires and responding immediately to violence, riots and accidents. 

Strategic Alliance between MindLink and Wizor expands Enterprise Chat solutions across the Nordics to provide better knowledge sharing & communication solutions

08 April, 2014 – Wizor AS, an expert in providing businesses with high impact applications focused around BlackBerry and MDM solutions, and MindLink Software, provider of persistent chat for business and leading developer of mobile collaboration apps, are announcing a strategic alliance to bring innovative collaboration solutions to enterprises across the Nordics. As a result of this alliance, Wizor will strengthen its stand as the leading mobile business partner, while MindLink will expand its ability to meet the rapidly growing demand in Norway, Sweden and Denmark for purposeful collaboration apps on mobile devices and beyond.

What makes a business competitive? Its ability to carve a unique positioning? A great brand? Its capacity to out-compete others through an aggressive marketing strategy? Or an innovative, unique product? Well it’s certainly not just one of the above.

Competitiveness is determined by an organisation’s ability to keep up-to-date with their internal and external stakeholders by constantly bridging strong links between them through various communication channels. This could be summed up as ‘Collaboration determines Competitiveness’. 

CEO, CMO, CIO, CFO – yes, we know what to expect and who they are. But CCO? CCO, the Chief Collaboration Officer, is a term coined several years ago…but where are all the CCOs in companies? Do you know one? How many can there be found on LinkedIn? If your business doesn’t have a Chief Collaboration Officer yet, it really is about time to start considering the value she or he can bring.

Las Vegas! The place where dreams come true – well, admittedly when it comes to the biggest gathering of Lync users, experts & partners worldwide, this certainly isn’t far from the truth.

Here we were again this year, with a bigger presence and our own booth, making contacts and showcasing our newest mobile & collaborations apps.

Collaboration technologies are the most cutting edge tools to harness the knowledge of employees and leverage them for business and competitive advantage. Yet as we saw in the news not long ago (following an internal memo from UBS - about how certain social related chat rooms must not be used by employees), many enterprises still have their doubts.  

 Persistent Chat is one of the most powerful collaboration tools out there. It allows for free-flow conversations and information sharing in a structured environment. Free-flow? Structured? Sounds like an oxymoron right there…but Persistent Chat enables exactly that.

In the early days of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) instant messaging… communities grew, allowing people to form social bonds with each other around the globe, with nothing but the power of the written word.

Communities grew organically, some looking for love, some sharing ideas, some just wanting to be part of something new and exciting. A few large corporations sensed the power of Instant Messaging and nurtured a delicate culture amongst their employees, balancing innovation, real-time communication, social networking and business critical collaboration against a locked down system with 1984 heavy-hammers of system security and risk management.