CollabWorx Secure Instant Messenger feature list:

Feature
Availability
Comment
Available for in-house installation
yes
Software licenses of various sizes with full support, maintenance, and optional installation and training services
Available as service
yes
Via partners only
End to end security
yes
User authentication and authorization, data encryption
Message encryption
yes
Using RSA
Embedded zero maintenance PKI
yes
No 3rd party PKI necessary
User certificate support
yes
Requires access to a Certification Authority
Central user management tools
yes
Central community management tools
yes
Buddy lists
no
Disallowed per design
File transfer
no
Disallowed per design
Message blocking/filtering
no
Disallowed per design
Message acceptance from external systems
no
Disallowed per design
Minimal distraction Short Messages interface
yes
Chat interface available as collabo- rative option
Text-to-speech support (audio messages)
yes
Can be disabled by user
Presence tracker and manager
yes
On-demand message forward to wireless domain
yes
Message forward to wireless phones using wireless e-mail address
Message logging
yes
Client-side only, no server log due to message encryption
Messages to multiple users
yes
Message broadcast to group
yes
Community-wide messages
Alert broadcast
yes
High-priority alert broadcast
Static user search (is there such user?)
yes
Supports search via attributes
Dynamic user search (is the user on-line)
yes
Automatic switch to appropriate community if allowed by security
Proxy server support
yes
Supports for SOCKS proxy severs is built in.
Web client available
yes
Enables extending SIM to external users without security risk. Requires CollabWorx Secure Portal.
Gateway to collaboration
yes
SIM can be used to start more advanced collaboration tools
     Multi-user chat
yes
Available via collaboration gateway. Requires CollabWorx Lite collaboration engine
     Co-browsing
yes
As above
     Multi-user audio conferencing
yes
As above
     Encrypted audio
yes
As above, optional feature
     Multi-user video conferencing
yes
As above
     Whiteboarding
yes
As above
     Integrated application sharing
yes
As above
     Secure Virtual Meeting
yes
As above, supports advanced collaborative features

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System requirements:
SIM client runs under MS Windows. We currently support Windows NT, 2000, XP, and ME. SIM will run on Windows 98 but we provide no support for this configuration.

Server side of SIM requires:

  • Windows NT or Windows 2000 workstation or server
  • Apache or IIS web server
  • Tomcat server
  • Optionally, SIM may use Oracle database as a back-end for user management (only for large installations

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