Users of Brosix Enterprise have access to many top level features. One of the most popular is the networks feature that allows you to create your own instant messaging network.

With the ability to create your own network, regardless of the size, it is simple to stay in touch with the right people while avoiding others. Along with this, you can be rest assured that only authorized users have the ability to join your network.

Are you looking for a convenient and secure way for employees and other group members to communicate, while still staying focused on business? If so, a secure network from Brosix is the way to go.

You can invite an unlimited number of members to your network. From there, a fully functional web control panel allows you to set user-level permissions, track communication amongst users, enable/disable features, and much more.

Why rely on a public instant messenger when you don’t have to? With the Brosix networks feature you can create a highly secure, private network that is sure to increase efficiency and improve productivity.

More information about the networks feature can be found at
http://www.brosix.com/enterprise-features/networks/

Brosix is a powerful, secure private enterprise instant messaging service. When your business is ready to increase information sharing security, cut out advertising and out-of-company contacts, and have the ability to manage users and permissions, then you are ready for Brosix Enterprise Instant Messaging. Brosix increases productivity focusing users solely on company business by eliminating outside contacts and distracting advertisements. Then there are all the great features – in which permissions are managed by your company’s IT administrator – such as text messaging, chat history, voice chat, video chat, file transfer, co-browse (users view the same screen), whiteboard, and many more. Brosix Enterprise Instant Messaging increases the efficiency with which your company can communicate between different departments and locations. Once you simply set up your Brosix network, implementing its use is a breeze.

Customized Set-up

Brosix maintains their own servers leaving only the administration of the enterprise instant messaging to your IT department. With the easy-to-use online administration console, they will begin setting up user IDs and permissions for each user. They can also generate a default contact list, another great advantage over each user taking the time to set up their contacts. Features can be assigned to users on an individual basis. Also available in the administration console are user activity logs, including all chats, voice calls, and file transfers.

Implementation

The following is a list of features to which users will have access, along with some tips on how to use each feature effectively within your company:

• Text messaging – ideal for simple communication between departments throughout the business day, available when users are offline as well: the message will appear next time they log on. Get a quick answer from your colleague even in the middle of a conference call.
• Chat history – chats are automatically stored so they can be referred back to as needed.
• Voice chat – make use of this feature to keep phone lines free or in cooperation with other features such as the whiteboard to clearly communicate ideas. If the recipient of your call isn’t in, you can leave a voicemail.
• Video chat – reduce traveling to other company locations for meetings by using the secure video chat feature.
• File transfer – send confidential files related to your chat session from the same console.
• Co-Browse – instead of trying to explain what you are looking at on a website, invite your coworker to a Co-Browse session. The website will be opened in a window allowing both users to see and navigate throughout the site. If one user clicks on a link, the page will change in both users’ co-browse session window.
• Whiteboard – allows you to invite another user to a whiteboard session where both can collaborate on a new design or idea. Users can modify the whiteboard simultaneously making it great for brainstorming sessions.
• Screen sharing – another incredibly helpful tool for sharing information and reducing travel time and expenses. Simply open a screen sharing session with any user in your contact list. They will be able to see your screen as you run through a presentation or upcoming project and provide immediate feedback.
• Voice conference – to complete your online meeting using Whiteboard, Co-Browse, or Screen Sharing, invite attendees to a voice conference where all can listen and speak as needed during your presentation.
• User Status – alerts other users that you are online and available, or online and busy, or away.

Using Brosix enterprise instant messaging provides so many advantages, that your company can’t go wrong with this service. Not only will inter-office communication be easier, but it will also be more secure. Download your IM package from Brosix today so that you can rest easy tomorrow knowing that your corporate communications are in safe hands.

The enemy is getting smarter. Sure, you want to keep your employees productive, but where is the line between productivity and allowing them to fall victim to the latest “blended” attacks being manufactured by malware authors. As we’ll discuss, an enterprise instant messenger may be one of the smartest moves you can make.

The problem
Dr. Paul Judge of Purewire, Inc. – a web security firm – posits that the new form of attack comes from an invitation from a friend to a website where malware is exploiting a browser issue. This is what he calls a “blended attack.” The primary delivery is to contact a victim through email or instant messenger. Strike up a conversation, and lead them to a video page or other site where a download is required.

For example, we’ve all been prompted to “Update your Adobe Flash Player” and mindlessly click OK. This scenario has been handcrafted to draw in a web user and deliver software of some sort.

Dr. Judge points out that you cannot try to possibly prevent your users from visiting every possible website, so URL filtering is out of the question. Even the best lists only contain 60 million sites that are blacklisted, but Judge points out that Google has over a trillion sites indexed! That’s a significant gap!

Beating the blended attack
One of the best ways to prevent your employees from being exploited is to remove communication with the outside world through an enterprise instant messenger. If an attacker can never communicate with your employees, then the blended attack can never be launched.

 By limiting who your employees can talk to, you are that much more likely to avoid them having a conversation with someone bent on exploiting them. Public instant messengers do not give you the required privacy and control to prevent such attacks.

When you think about interoffice communication what comes to mind? Most people think about walking from office to office, or spending loads of time on the phone. As you know, this can be time consuming and downright irritating at some points in the day. If you are tired of all the wasted time you need to open your company’s eyes to the benefits of instant messaging. This is the wave of the future, and if you continue to live in the past you and your employer will be passed by soon enough.

How can I show my company that communicating via instant messages is the way to go? To start, you should talk to the person in charge. Does your direct boss have the power to make this happen? If so, talk to him about the benefits that instant messaging has to offer to you and those around you. Some employees take it upon themselves to start instant messaging without permission; this is a mistake. By getting your company involved you can avoid trouble, while also showing that you are a team player who is trying to make things better.

Once you begin to use an instant messaging tool you should see an increase in productivity and efficiency. Simply put, the hard part is getting your company to join in on the action. Soon enough they will realize that instant messaging does offer benefits, and that you were the mastermind behind this move. As you can see, not only will instant messaging help you from day to day but it will also move you up the ranks within your company. How does that sound to you?

Brosix can save employers both time and money – plus it has a host of great features – all of which combine to make Brosix the best IM client for your business. We have talked about the various ways that you can save money but take a look at this story:

All Damovo employees – including more than 60 in Ireland and 1,100 around the world – are now communicating via unified communications (UC) applications, including instant messaging, presence, audio- and video-conferencing, and real-time document sharing.

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Time wasted in trying and failing to contact customers and colleagues costs the Irish economy €693 million annually, according to an independent survey on behalf of Damovo last year.

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The firm’s monthly management meetings now take place over the internet, eliminating time-consuming and expensive international travel.

Country manager John McCabe is an enthusiastic advocate of UC technology. “We now use presence awareness, instant messaging and video conferencing all the time.”

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UC has been extended to the desktops, laptops and even mobile devices of all Damovo employees. The firm expects its Irish staff to save 100 working days in the first year by using the instant messaging and presence functions alone. With savings on calls and travel included, the solution will pay for itself in eight months.

Source: Business Applications

Damovo is a great example of an international company using enterprise messaging to save a lot of money for the company. It is particularly encouraging to see that they believe enterprise messaging pays for itself, a fact which we believe would be true for all businesses who seek to use enterprise services.

Brosix is great because it does offer a unified body of communication. Enterprise messaging features such as whiteboard, voicemails, voice chat, screen sharing, and the like offer companies the ability to follow the example of international giants such as Damovo who have embraced emerging technologies to improve their bottom line and to protect the time of their staff, which is another valuable resource.

Brosix offers a unique Instant Messaging service to companies and organizations that seek for secure and controlled communication over the Internet.

Just go to Brosix.com web site and create your Instant Messenger in a minute. Your Instant Messenger needs servers to operate on the Internet. To make things easier for you, we host your Instant Messaging Network on our optimized servers so you don’t need to worry about server maintenance and configuration.

Upon the registration you get a special build for you of Brosix application and a web control panel.

You give the application to all of your employees, colleagues, customers, partners and whoever you want to communicate with. They install it on their computers and will be able to connect and use Brosix from different places all around the world – your offices (you may have more than one office), people’s homes, airports etc.

If you have Brosix on your laptop, you will be able to use it in the office, will be able to use it when you are at home, will be able to use it when you are in another state or country. All this is possible without configuring your office infrastructure. You don’t need to install and configure anything on your servers as we already deployed all necessary components on our optimized servers. The only thing you need in order to use Brosix is to have an Internet connection on your computers.

This provides great flexibility in the ways Brosix is used and at the same time it keeps all the communication safe as all communication channels are properly encrypted.

The ways you can use Brosix to communicate are:

• Text chat with rich text formatting
• Text conferences
• Voice chat
• Video chat
• File Transfer
• Screen-shot
• Co-Browse
• Whiteboard
• Voice Conference
• Voice Mail
• Screen Sharing

More about each of these can be found at Brosix features.

Now, a few words about the web control panel. It gives you a full control over your Instant Messaging Network.

• Add/remove users. You can disable new user registrations and this way control who is allowed to use your Brosix.
   
• Modify user contact lists and control who can communicate with who.
   
• Enable/disable features of Brosix application for each user. For example, you may allow some users to use File Transfer and disallow them use Video. You can allow others use Video and disallow Voice.

Optimizing communication in your organization is just few clicks away – go to Brosix.com web site, create your Instant Messaging Network in a minute and start using it right away with all rich features and secured communication channels.

Instant messaging is the fastest developing communication tool, and businesses solve issues to make it work in the corporate environment.

When it comes to discussing free public Internet applications, there is no doubt that instant messaging (IM) has been one of the biggest phenomena that have gained widespread popularity and are greatly enjoyed by users. In 2005, 80% of Internet users made use of IM, and the figures keep rising.

According to a recent survey of IM trends in the USA, conducted by AOL, 30% of people prefer instant messaging to phone calls, and 40% make bigger use of it than they do of e-mails.

The popularity of IM solutions is not limited to USA alone. While the technology is very popular in Northern America and Europe, recent reports suggest that IM usage has also been rapidly growing in developing economies like China. The number of registered IM users in the country reached 900 million in the beginning of 2007.

Business has not remained unaffected by the new trend. Almost half of all big international companies are using some form of instant messaging for their daily communication, and it has to be admitted that IM is now a serious corporate IT issue. The reason is clear – instant messaging is faster than e-mail; you can check whether the other person is online and thus avoid a time-wasting e-mail or phone lag. IM can also reduce meeting costs within a company by connecting geographically separate employees by low-cost instant interaction. Employees can use it to exchange information or work together, without the need of organizing or holding meetings.

The only problem that occurs in the use of IM at the workplace is security. When using a free public IM such as ICQ or MSN, companies cannot be protected of unauthorized use, hacker or virus threats. However, a solution has also been found to this problem – specialized corporate instant messengers have been created to better meet the security needs of small businesses and large corporations alike.

One of the best developed enterprise IM is the special solution offered by Brosix. Brosix was founded in 2006 to develop simple, easy-to-use, secure communication tools for home and enterprises. The aim of the company is to provide to organizations innovative secure instant messaging and other Internet technologies without making substantial investments in hardware, software and infrastructure.

So, how does the Brosix instant messenger solve firms’ security issues? It allows clients to create their own business instant messaging networks and organize a complete user selection, which can be managed through an online control panel.

Customers get their own private network hosted on the Brosix servers, and can easily manage it via a web-based Administration Console and have full control on users, contact lists, block users, etc. By having a private network, customers can be sure that only authorized users within that network request their messages, file transfers and chat sessions. Last, but not least, Brosix encrypts all the traffic with a 256-bit key. Instant messages, file transfers, voice/video/text chats, etc. are encrypted and only the recipient users can decrypt and use/see them.

It is therefore clear that business can find and does actually find ways to make place for IM in the highly sensitive business environment. IM has gone corporate, and aims to stay so. 

From multi-user operating systems, through teenage use and into the corporate business environment, instant messengers are here to stay.

We often consider instant messengers to be a very recent invention, mainly because of their widespread popularity over the last few years.

In fact, the beginnings of instant messaging (IM) date as far back as the 1960s, when it was used in multi-user operating systems. Instant messengers are therefore older than the Internet itself.

It wasn’t until the 1990s that the technology saw its first great boom. It was mostly young people who used it, but the advantages of the tool were already clearly visible: it was extremely efficient, very cheap as compared to other communication forms, and surprisingly easy to use.

This is the reason why more and more people became fans of instant messaging, and why it is now a preferred communication tool for young and old alike. Recently, IM has been widely used by businesses looking to make communication faster and cost-efficient, especially by companies with big multinational operations that would otherwise require great communication expenses.

However, in order to deal with virus threat, unauthorized use, and security issues, special corporate instant messengers are being developed to cater for the needs of various businesses and organizations.

One of the latest developments in this area is the Brosix Enterprise Instant Messenger. It is a powerful, easy-to-use tool, and an excellent solution for enterprises and individuals that need to improve communications, business productivity, and relationships with partners and customers.

Several main factors make Brosix the preferred choice of both large corporations and small-sized businesses.

First, Brosix ensures complete confidentiality, security, and virus protection. While information exchanged over a public instant messenger can leak to practically anyone, Brosix customers create their own private network, hosted on Brosix servers, and all traffic is encrypted with 256 but keys which only the intended recipient users can decrypt.

Moreover, the solution provides an all-in-one package in order to help customers organize better their business, clients support, and office interaction. Brosix supports not only text messages, but also Whiteboard, Co-Browse, Voice/Video Chat, etc.

Last, but not least, the tool has inexpensive flat-free pricing. The subscription fee for a customer’s network depends on the number of users registered in it. The network capacity is increased in blocks of 10, and can be easily expanded at any time.

SMEs strive to survive the global credit crunch.

It has now been officially acknowledged – the world is facing a serious economic setback; inflation is rising and the future seems unclear. Companies try to react and cut costs accordingly in order to be able to survive the harsh reality. But what can you do if you are not the size of GM and cannot afford to cut 10% of a 40,000-strong workforce? Small and medium-sized businesses seem very limited in terms of the savings that they are able to make.

Not necessarily, a new survey shows. It studied over 200 SMEs around the world, 73% of which stated that they have at least partially managed to cut costs in response to the global financial crisis. Here are some of the conclusions from this survey:

• Increased fuel and commodity costs have affected 80% of the small and medium-sized enterprises and has forced them to change their business practices.
• 73% of the firms have taken countermeasures, such as reducing office premises and introducing flexi hours, hot-desking, and home working.
• As a result, more people prefer to work from home and thus save transport costs.

While home working (also known as ‘telecommuting’) has often been referred to as the future of business, the present economic situation has accelerated the process and a growing number of professionals prefer to stay at home and work from there.

A recent development that has helped this process is the widespread popularity of the so-called ‘enterprise instant messaging’. While phone and e-mail are still preferred means of business communication, instant messengers especially designed to meet the needs of businesses with many telecommuters or remote partners and clients are gaining widespread popularity, as they prove to be faster, cheaper, and more efficient that both phone and e-mail.

Brosix Enterprise Instant Messenger is one of the most popular such solutions that were recently introduced and that a growing number of SMEs are now using. Brosix is a powerful and easy-to-use instant messenger which allows clients to create their own business instant messaging networks and organize a complete user selection which can be managed through an online control panel.

By using a corporate IM such as Brosix, firms can ensure the authenticity of network users and rely on highly secure communication for strict and confidential business purposes – which is indeed the main difference between a business IM and a free public messenger such as ICQ or MSN. Thus, SMEs get an optimized work process with additional features.