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iLinc Version 8.0 - Release January 2006
New Version Provides Superior and Innovative Capabilities for Organization-Wide Web Conferencing
Leersum, January 10, 2006: Parsec Infotech is pleased to announce the release of version 8.0 of the iLinc Web conferencing software. The release marks more than 10 years of software
development incorporating best practices and requested features from organizations such as Aetna, Citigroup, EDS,
JPMorgan Chase, Office Depot, and Steelcase, as well as more than 100 colleges and universities that have selected iLinc
as their standard for Web collaboration.
Commenting on the release, James M. Powers, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of iLinc Communications said,
“We believe that the 8.0 release furthers our technology leadership as the most scalable, easy-to-implement, and robust
enterprise Web conferencing solution on the market. iLinc also provides software licensing and hosting options, in
combination with industry-leading features that are simply not matched by competitors such as WebEx, Centra, IBM
SameTime, and Microsoft Live Meeting. Several hundred new customers in the past few months have switched to iLinc
from other vendors and we invite every organization to simply compare iLinc with their current Web conferencing
provider before renewing any annual rental agreement or maintenance contract,” said Dr. Powers.
Version 8.0 delivers important new features that further the Company’s commitment to building the best tool for
enterprise-wide conferencing including superior control capabilities for administrators, improved content management
options, industry-leading customization capabilities, and other notable new features.
Superior Control Capabilities for Administrators
New Advanced Authority Levels and New Custom Authority Levels
iLinc’s new advanced authority levels feature allows organizations to deploy iLinc in a secure manner, while still
allowing for effective distributed or centralized administration across the enterprise. New default authority levels have
been developed to allow system administrators to grant very granular administrative rights to specific users and/or roles.
Ten new and distinct default authority levels have been developed to provide the most common authority levels required
by organizations, and critically, the system also allows administrators to create new custom authority levels to enable
them to grant specific rights to very granular aspects of user, content, event, and site management.
Ability to Separate Different Departments or Divisions Within a Single System
iLinc’s new divisions feature, combined with the new authority levels feature and content library feature, allows
organizations to effectively share a single centralized conferencing system across an enterprise and to allow for distributed
rights and system administration while still maintaining a centralized database and license pool. Organizations can create
a hierarchy that mirrors their organization chart.
Improved Content Management Options
New Content Library and Content Storage System
This system allows users to effectively manage content in a secure manner, while allowing an organization to build a
library of content that can be shared across the organization and effectively be leveraged as a knowledge base. iLinc also
now supports a modular, centralized content management system for large-scale, enterprise-wide deployments. All iLinc
related content can be stored on a separate, highly redundant system that optionally offloads this requirement from the
conferencing servers. This move adds to the flexibility of the iLinc system in designing high uptime conferencing
systems that are more resilient, with greater levels of redundancy, at a lower price point.
Industry-Leading Customization Capabilities
Customizable Landing Pages
iLinc will allow administrators to choose which page will display for users who browse to their default URL. Normally,
and by default, this page will be the login page, from where actual users with login accounts can login and view, join, or
administer sessions on the system based on their authority level rights. As an option, administrators can instead choose to
display a page with the publicly available sessions which allows users to join directly from the page without having to
access an e-mail invitation and, if necessary, to create guest accounts on the fly. Administrators can also choose to
display a public registration page, which lists all sessions that have been earmarked for general public registration. This
new customizable landing page feature allows administrators to effectively gear their systems for their primary target
audiences.
Personalized Launch Pages
Session leaders can now choose to post events and/or materials that they have created on their own, individualized, public
facing page, allowing them to quickly drive users to a personalized listing of materials and events, as opposed to posting
them on a site-wide public events page.
Customizable Colors Inside of Live Sessions
iLinc administrators can now completely customize the colors of the actual client software that launches during live
sessions. A complete UI allows users to upload custom default images, and to select either pre-set color schemes or to
create their own custom color schemes. The entire iLinc client palette can be customized, including text, surrounding
lines, gradients, internal windows, and more, allowing customers to completely brand the software.
Private Labeling Support
The iLinc system will now support complete OEM capabilities with a “white label” customization system. Product
names, graphics, colors, and overall look and feel are completely customizable when running on a dedicated conferencing
system.
Other Notable New Features
This release also brings a new feature set including an entirely new design of the client interface to make icons more
intuitive and the over-all product even easier to use. This release also includes important new enhancements such as: the
ability to annotate on documents while application sharing; an enhanced whiteboard with multi-user interaction, new
fonts, colors, and markup tools; a new floating toolbar during full-screen application sharing sessions; and audible sounds
denoting when users join, leave, or raise their hands.
For more information contact:
Jimmy Georgiades
+31 343 460 532
jimmyg@parsecinfo.nl
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