ioko Connect is our full collaboration suite, providing document-based collaboration, team oriented peer to peer support, real time online meetings and integrated communications.
ioko Connect consists of:
Each component may be used independently to provide solutions to specific collaboration challenges. In total they provide a full range of options for supporting collaboration at all levels, whether operational, managerial or clinical, and across the range of collaboration styles - real time and asynchronous.
ioko Connect - Live
Online meetings powered by 'Microsoft Live Meeting 2007'
The Online web meeting tool for the NHS
- Real time collaboration
- Person to group, for presentations, training and workshop activities
- Provides a sign up and use service rather than a server based technology investment. Focused on multi-organisation collaboration or on presentation driven interaction/conferencing
- Video and audio support
- Improved whiteboard tools
Flexible license
Each licensed user can run meetings with up to 14 other people simultaneously; the other attendees do not need an account as well. Each user could have meetings with dozens or hundreds of people over the course of a month, providing excellent cost effectiveness.
Use ioko Connect - Live to support projects, team meeting, ad hoc meetings, support calls and more.
No local servers to install and, in many cases client software to install (for application sharing a a browser plug-in is needed that is very quick to download and install on first use.
Savings can be substantial from avoiding travel, accelerating projects and avoiding mis communication.
ioko Connect - Live is a dedicated NHS service with special NHS pricing.
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ioko Connect - Share
SharePoint based document and team collaboration
- Provides online document and information collaboration.
- Non real time; asynchronous task activity.
- Person to server.
- Part of Windows Server 2003 license.
We can provide discrete developments for WSS where extended functionality is desired, including our specialist web parts for enhanced navigation, adding metadata to search results, providing advanced web part linking or site redesigns using FrontPage. This can be further extended with full SharePoint Portal Server based solutions for collaboration and document management.
ioko Connect - Share can run on your existing servers or we offer a full hosted WSS service with internet and NHSnet/N3 connectivity.
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ioko Connect - Groove
Secure peer to peer collaboration
- Provides highly encrypted workspaces for team collaboration
- Online and offline working
- Person to team/peer (mediated by a server)
- Rapidly being integrated into Office System, SharePoint etc.
- Supports mobile team working across multiple domains or networks
- Licensed per seat - around £200
We partner with D2i to provide access to this exciting technology. Not only does it integrate with SharePoint to provide offline capabilities but it also allows ad hoc workspaces to be created without the need for a central server.
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ioko Connect - LCS
Live Communications Server
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- Corporate IM and Presence technology to support Messenger type functionality and more
- Real time collaboration and presence
- Integrated communications, including audio and online meetings, with extensible person-based information display
- Provides integration to Office, Exchange, Live Meeting, SharePoint, 3rd party public IM and more.
- Licensed per server plus a per seat or device CAL
- Focused on 1 to 1 and ad hoc meetings in the same organisation, can be extended to allow integration with IM systems such as MSN, AOL etc.
We can provide full LCS installations and advise on appropriate infrastructure, security and policies.
LCS can have a dramatic impact on the effectiveness of dispersed teams who are working routinely with each other and need to operate as if they are physically co-located.
We have personal experience of managing transatlantic and multisite UK projects with this type of technology, resulting in many thousands of pounds of savings.
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Microsoft Office Communicator
- Client for Live Communications Server, essentially a Windows or MSN Messenger for the corporate world with enhanced comms features
- Real time collaboration
- Person to person
- Strong on integration with other MS products
- Free, for licensed users of Live Communications Server
This is the new, powerful and corporate friendly client for LCS. It's free, but we can help with roll out, configuration, group policy setting and customisation if required.
Why use LCS instead of Windows Messenger and Exchange?
Because LCS offers full integration with your telephone system (because it supports SIP - Session Initiation Protocol - which allows different devices to securely talk to each other); it provides more dynamic and richer information about your status; it offers gateways to other IM systems such as MSN, Yahoo and AOL; it supports audit trails for compliance and monitoring; it is secure and it is managed.
In essence it is a grown up, corporate grade tool with fuller integration across all your communication tools and much more powerful presence that better connects teams through their day to day applications and devices.
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