Adobe acquires Antepo

Adobe is pleased to announce that it has acquired Antepo, Inc. Antepo is a technology company that developed the Antepo Open Presence Network (OPN) System — an award-winning platform for Enterprise Instant Messaging and Presence capabilities — enabling real-time communication and collaboration while meeting critical business requirements for control, security, integration, and compliance.

The Antepo technologies and expertise acquired will support the development of Adobe's products and solutions for knowledge workers. The addition of Antepo's Presence and Enterprise Instant Messaging solutions will further expand the capabilities of the Adobe® Acrobat® software family for enabling knowledge workers to communicate and collaborate with confidence.

eWEEK: Antepo a viable alternative to Microsoft's Office Live Communications Server

eWEEK Labs offer a stunning review of Antepo's latest release of its award-winning availability-based communication platform, OPN System Rivoli.

Michael Caton, from eWEEK Labs, offers a clear perspective on Antepo's key advantages over its competitors and gives the OPN System Rivoli an "Excellent" rating in Collaboration and Interoperability.

In its strongest statement, the review puts Rivoli in the industry top ranks:
"...the combination of OPN System Rivoli and Communicator 2005 is a viable alternative to Microsoft's Office Live Communications Server 2005. OPN System Rivoli is considerably less expensive than Office Live Communications Server, and it can integrate with Active Directory without extending the AD schema."

The review goes on to recognize that Rivoli is unique in being all-inclusive of the security, compliance and management features that typically require expensive third-party products:
"...Antepo's integrated compliance management and security tool set will appeal to corporations evaluating the platform. The compliance tools gave us a way to set policies that established intra-organization boundaries, appended message disclaimers and provided policy audit workflow. The security tools, which block file attachments based on extension, will be useful especially for smaller organizations looking to implement management policies for IM..."

eWEEK summarizes the attractive value proposition and lower cost of ownership of Rivoli:
"At $18 per user, OPN System Rivoli is relatively inexpensive. An easy-to-use management interface and broad platform support should help keep administration costs low."

For the complete review, visit eWEEK (or http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2054048,00.asp).

Man Financial Extends Enterprise IM Commitment To Antepo

Antepo has announced that Man Financial, the brokerage division of London-based Man Group, plc, is extending its rollout of the award-winning OPN System™, Antepo’s flagship solution for Presence awareness, Instant Messaging (IM), and Voice-over-IP (VoIP), across its enterprise.

Man Financial is leveraging the Antepo OPN System platform to connect offices around the world, and streamline group communications between front and back office operations at all locations.

Man Financial selected the Antepo OPN System because its capabilities allow brokers to respond in near real time to market events while meeting both corporate standards and industry regulations for security and compliance.

For the complete announcement, visit:
http://www.antepo.com/?newsid.56

Antepo Releases OPN System Rivoli, The New Dial Tone™

Antepo announced the release of Rivoli, the latest version of its award-winning OPN System platform. Rivoli is The New Dial Tone™ for business communications, enabling users to instantly verify if employees, customers, or partners are online and available, prior to actually initiating contact.

By tying together Presence awareness, Instant Messaging (IM), and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) through standards-based SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), Rivoli fosters more efficient corporate collaboration – while meeting critical enterprise requirements for integration, control, security, compliance, and scalability.

Pricing for OPN System Rivoli starts at $18 per seat with volume discounts available, and no additional per-server license fees. There is no additional cost for built-in, federated connectivity to AOL Instant Messaging Network, Google™Talk, and other IM systems. For more information on the features and capabilities of OPN System Rivoli visit, http://www.antepo.com/rivoli/.

NETWORK WORLD: Antepo Adds SIP Support to Messaging Platform

Network World covers the launch of OPN System Rivoli, the latest release of Antepo's award-winning availability-based communication platform.

Rivoli features native support for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE). The company is extending that support to include VoIP and presence integration with VoIP.

It also is adding support for Microsoft Office Communicator and Windows Messenger instant messaging clients and presence integration with SharePoint Server, which Microsoft plans to ship later this year to corporate customers. Users will be able to see if the author of a file shared in SharePoint is online and start an IM session with that user. The presence capabilities will also extend to Office applications Outlook, Excel, and Word.

In addition, the company is supporting white boarding, application sharing and VoIP via the SIP protocol, which also supports connections to IP PBX servers.

For the complete article, visit Network World.

Leading Mortgage and Fleet Management Services Company Selects OPN System

PHH Corporation and its two subsidiaries, PHH Arval and PHH Mortgage, have selected the Antepo's OPN System for corporate instant messaging and presence management.

PHH’s IT leaders were interested in implementing IM and presence-awareness in the workplace in order to boost customer service and improve overall operational efficiency.

PHH chose Antepo because its OPN System clearly demonstrated the best cost-to-feature ratio, combining best-of-breed functionality, security, and interoperability in an affordable, standards-based solution.

For the complete announcement, visit: http://www.antepo.com/?news.newsroom

Antepo's Express Edition Offers Enterprise-Grade IM for Free

Antepo has released OPN System Express Edition -- a free version of its award-winning corporate Instant Messaging solution supporting up to 1,000 users at absolutely no cost.

For SMBs or departments within large organizations, OPN System Express offers an enterprise-grade IM foundation including directory and database integration, encryption, secure authentication, and more.

OPN System Express Edition is now available for download.