Softalk Collaboration Suite

Office messaging and collaboration product that incorporates the Softalk Mail Server, WorkgroupShare and Softalk Organizer products to create an integrated alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server.
For small to medium sized businesses that need Exchange features, Softalk Collaboration Suite offers an alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server. It includes the following components:

• Mail Server: Softalk Collaboration Suite incorporates Windows-based, business class mail server, which can provide any size organisation with secure and dependable messaging. It includes the following features: Message archiving, anti-spam and anti-virus content control.
• Outlook Collaboration: Softalk Collaboration Suite lets staff share their Microsoft Outlook folders with each other. It provides sharing of both personal and public folders and lets users use Outlook's built-in meeting scheduler to query users' free/busy information. It also provides full access control. It includes the following features: Share personal and public folders Offline, access to personal and public folders and is compatible with most handheld devices.
• Browser-based Access: Softalk Collaboration Suite enables entire organisations to manage and share their Outlook calendars, contacts and email from within Internet Explorer, Safari 3.0 or Firefox. This means they may have access to their live desktop Outlook data, from anywhere in the world. It includes the following features: Access and manage Outlook calendars as well as contacts and email.

Softalk Collaboration Suite - Features

Softalk Collaboration Suite combines the three products Softalk Mail Server, WorkgroupShare and Softalk Organizer into one powerful yet affordable solution.

Mail Server
Softalk Collaboration Suite incorporates an easy to use, Windows-based, business class mail server, which can provide any size organization with secure and dependable messaging. It includes the following features:

• Message archiving
• Anti-spam
• Anti-virus
• Content control

Outlook Collaboration
Softalk Collaboration Suite lets your staff share their Microsoft Outlook folders with each other. It provides sharing of both personal and public folders and lets you use Outlook's built-in meeting scheduler to query users' free/busy information. It also provides full access control. It includes the following features:

• Share personal and public folders
• Offline access to personal and public folders
• Compatible with most handheld devices

Browser-based Access
Softalk Collaboration Suite enables your entire organization to manage and share their Outlook calendars, contacts and email from within Internet Explorer, Safari 3.0 or Firefox. This means they may have access to their live desktop Outlook data, from anywhere in the world. It includes the following features:

• Access and manage Outlook calendars, contacts and email
• Access public and shared folders

Messaging features of Softalk Collaboration Suite

Softalk Mail Server is an easy to use, Windows-based, business class mail server, which can provide any size organization with secure and dependable messaging.

Softalk Mail Server offers the scalability and richness of features necessary to meet your messaging requirements. It is an affordable mail server that is used by thousands of organizations around the world.

It provides the following powerful features, amongst others:

• Message archiving
• Anti-spam
• Anti-virus
• Content control
• Browser-based email access

Softalk Mail Server is a fully featured mail server, which can provide any size organization with secure and dependable messaging. To help combat increasing security threats to your email, Softalk Mail Server offers a comprehensive set of features to protect your organization from virus-infected messages and spam mail. Whether you are a large enterprise, hosting your own email, or a smaller organization, collecting mail from one or more ISPs, the Softalk Mail Server can provide everything you need to run a smooth and effective mail system.

• Content filtering
  As more and more organizations are being held responsible for the content of email messages sent out by their employees, companies are becoming increasingly eager to have some form of control over the content of both incoming and outgoing mail messages.

  Softalk Mail Server makes this possible by using the built-in content filtering functionality. This can identify messages containing certain content and can perform appropriate actions, such as quarantining the message, stripping out the attachments from the message and adding the message recipients to a white list or black list. The content filter can also enable you to add commercial or legal disclaimers to every email sent out from your organization, all this helping you to protect your organization from lawsuits, loss of image and wasted company time.

• Virus protection
  Softalk Mail Server can protect your network from email-bourne viruses, Trojans and worms, ensuring that your email arrives to its destination, free from viruses. Softalk Mail Server lets you optionally check each incoming and outgoing message for viruses before it is sent or received. This is much more desirable than relying on anti-virus software installed on each client computer.
• Spam filtering
  Independent analysts have estimated that spam currently represents more than 65% of all email traffic and the figure is growing. Consequently, it is becoming more important than ever to protect your organization from the loss of staff productivity resulting from ever increasing amounts of unsolicited email. Softalk Mail Server provides very effective anti-spam tools for preventing unsolicited email from reaching your staff. In addition to its standard anti-spam features, Softalk Mail Server optionally uses SpamCleanser technology, a subscription service based on a learning algorithm, which can intelligently distinguish spam messages from legitimate email.
• Scalability
  Softalk Mail Server is database-driven. This has many speed advantages over equivalent file-based mail servers. Additionally, it makes it possible to cluster several Softalk Mail Servers, all sharing the same message store, thus increasing scalability when required and providing redundancy during computer failure.
• Web-based access to email
  If you want to give your staff the ability to access their email from anywhere, then this can be achieved using the mail component of Softalk Organizer. This lets your users access their email through Internet Explorer, providing them with the ability to read messages, reply to messages, file their email and even specify when they are away from the office.

The Outlook collaboration features of Softalk Collaboration Suite

WorkgroupShare lets you share Outlook folders without needing Exchange Server. It provides robust synchronization of Outlook folders, allowing members of an organization to share essential Outlook information with one another.

WorkgroupShare is simple to use and easy to install. It is currently used by tens of thousands of organizations across the world to provide collaboration using Microsoft Outlook. It can do all this without the expense or expertise required by Exchange Server:

• Share calendars, contacts, tasks, email and notes.
• Share both personal and public folders.
• Control who has access to which folders.
• No need for Exchange Server.
• Affordable and easy to use.
• Works with Outlook 2000/2002/XP/2003/2007.

Softalk Collaboration Suite's browser-based access to Outlook data

Softalk Organizer provides an integrated browser-based solution for managing and organizing calendars, contacts, email messages and other essential information.

Softalk Organizer enables your entire organization to manage and share calendars, contacts and email from within Internet Explorer or Firefox, providing secure and ubiquitous access of information.

It provides the following powerful features, amongst others:

• Shared calendars, contacts and email
• Configurable access control
• Integrates with WorkgroupShare or Softalk Share Server

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Softalk Collaboration Suite - System Requirements

System Requirements

Server:
Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7 / 2008 R2

WorkgroupShare Clients:
Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 WorkgroupShare Clients:
Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7 / 2008 R2

Browser:
IE6 or later, Firefox 2.0 or later, Safari 3.x or later.

Outlook versions:
Outlook 2000 / 2002 / XP / 2003 / 2007