Antepo - The New Dial Tone

Adobe acquires Antepo

2007-01-31T12:31:00.000-05:00

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

2006-11-09T09:10:00.000-05:00

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

2006-11-06T14:28:00.000-05:00

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™

2006-09-12T07:00:00.000-04:00

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

2006-09-11T10:56:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-22T08:30:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-21T09:12:00.000-04:00

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.

COMPUTERWORLD: How To Build Your Own Corporate IM System

2006-07-31T09:28:00.000-04:00

David Strom takes an in-depth look at three strategies to building a corporate-grade IM network, and array of solutions to evaluate before diving in.

From the article:

"One to watch is Antepo Inc., which offers a system called Rivoli. They differentiate themselves by supporting a wide collection of public and private IM systems using a collection of SIP-based gateways to federate among Microsoft LCS, Lotus Sametime, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol servers and even AIM. Rivoli costs $18 per user, plus a maintenance fee after the first year. It can work with older Microsoft Exchange clients as well as integrate quite nicely into Sharepoint, Microsoft Messenger and other Windows products as well as Apple Computer Inc.'s iChat.

"We were seeing people wanting enterprise-grade Skype with the benefit of standards and a secure infrastructure, said John Sullivan, a product manager at Antepo. Rivoli Version 7.0 is shipping by the end of the summer. "

For the complete article, visit Computerworld

Antepo Launches OPN System Rivoli Beta

2006-07-26T14:31:00.000-04:00

The Beta Release of OPN System Rivoli is now available for download at www.antepo.com.

With an open platform that supports both XMPP and SIP/SIMPLE, Rivoli delivers availability-based communications and real-time collaboration by bringing together Presence awareness, Instant Messaging, and VoIP -- essentially creating a new "dial tone" -- while meeting critical business requirements for integration, control, security, compliance, and scalability.

Key enhancements from the previous release of OPN System XT, include:

Telephony Integration: Connects the desktop and phone, tying Presence awareness and collaboration with IP telephony infrastructures through SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem).
MS Office Coupling: Tight integration with MS Sharepoint and Office applications such as Outlook, Excel, and Word to add real-time collaboration capabilities.
MS Windows Messenger Support: Delivers IM, PC-based voice and video calling, whiteboarding, application sharing, and more.
Advanced Federation: Offering interoperability with AOL, Google Talk, Microsoft LCS, IBM Lotus Sametime, Jabber, and more.
Performance Boost: Ability to support the largest user communities with increased levels of concurrency and message throughput.

For the full announcement, visit:

http://www.antepo.com/?newsid.49

INFOWORLD: Antepo Beta Dials In To Presence Awareness

2006-07-06T12:30:00.000-04:00

InfoWorld's Product Blog covers the Beta launch of OPN System Rivoli, the upcoming release of Antepo's award-winning availability based communications platform.

From the article:

"OPN System Rivolo brings together presence awareness, IM (instant messaging) and VoIP, essentially creating a new dial tone -- while meeting critical business requirements for integration, control, security, compliance, and scalability."

The general availability launch of OPN System Rivoli is scheduled for September 2006. To download a trial version and join the Beta program, visit OPN System Rivoli.

For the full InfoWorld article, visit InfoWorld ProdBlog.

INSTANT MESSAGING PLANET: Antepo Releases Beta of Its Newest IM Platform

2006-06-26T10:45:00.000-04:00

InstantMessagingPlanet.com's Dan Muse offers a preview of the upcoming release of OPN System Rivoli.

From the article:

"In the world of enterprise instant messaging, things can get a little complicated with competing protocols, consumer-grade IM mixing with business-class products, compliance issues breathing down everyone neck and on it goes.

Antepo's goal is to keep it simple. The New York-based real-time communications platform provider offers federation, compliance and support for multiple operating systems in one product — its OPN System."

For the complete article, visit IM Planet.

Antepo OPN System XT Wins 2006 eWEEK Excellence Award

2006-05-24T09:30:00.000-04:00

An expert panel of eWEEK Labs analysts and IT professionals has given Antepo's enterprise IM solution, OPN System XT, top Honors in the Enterprise Collaboration Category in the Sixth Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards.

OPN System's dual support for XMPP and SIP/SIMPLE and its ability to interoperate across multiple systems and network boundaries was noted by the judges as a unique differentiator among competitive solutions.

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services.

eWEEK’s special report on the winners can be found at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1977825,00.asp

For the full announcement, visit: http://www.antepo.com/?newsid.47

Antepo and Akonix Partner to Deliver Advanced Security for Enterprise IM

2006-02-21T11:00:00.000-05:00

Antepo announced a partnership with Akonix, a leading provider of IM security and compliance solutions.

The alliance extends compliance features of OPN System and improves control over corporate IM usage with enhanced network hygiene and security offered by Akonix L7 Enterprise.

The joint solution is ideal for organizations seeking to migrate employees from consumer IM to a secure, standards-based, highly reliable IM system that is globally deployable and securely interoperable with other enterprise IM systems.

For more details and benefits, visit: http://www.antepo.com/?products.akonix

Antepo Provides Presence Server for Motorola IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem)

2006-02-13T12:00:00.000-05:00

Antepo was named as a third-party solution provider as part of Motorola's unveiling of its portfolio of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) applications at 3GSM in Barcelona, Spain.

OPN System is utilized as a presence server -- a key component of Motorola's core IMS platform architecture, designed to provide seamless mobility for users across wireless and wireline networks.

For the full announcement, visit: http://www.antepo.com/?newsid.39

MESSAGING PIPELINE: Setting a Course Toward Instant Messaging Federation

2006-01-03T10:00:00.000-05:00

Antepo CEO Maxime Seguineau explores the business drivers and best practices for securely extending instant messaging networks.

From the article:

"A clear priority will be given by businesses to the creation of ecosystems that will allow secure, cohesive and scalable real-time collaboration between the enterprise, its customers and its suppliers, as well as with other players within the same industry vertical.

Federation is a term used in the IM industry to describe the ability for IM servers to communicate in a distributed network using trusted relationships, and without requiring users to establish separate credentials on each system to which they wish to communicate. Federation delivers the ability for users on one system at one company, for example, to exchange IM with contacts on another system installed in a separate enterprise – without requiring each user to establish a password and maintain an account on each other’s system.

Federation, or server-to-server connectivity, is widely considered a pre-requisite for the significant adoption of interoperable IM systems. Federation is what users expect based on similar experience with e-mail – no knowledge of the foreign systems is required, just a valid address of the recipient.

For the complete article, visit Messaging Pipeline.