Designed for business use - While most companies have email systems they can archive and track, many still use non-secure instant messaging systems.  Often unknown and untracked by IT and management, public IM systems open a business to serious legal and security risks.

Hosted OCS 2007 is:

• Secure and private
• Legally compliant
• Built for business use
• Integrated with your hosted Exchange email

Business benefits - Hosted OCS 2007 provides a secure and professional alternative for instant messaging and unified communications.  Benefits include:

• Free / busy status – integrated. Hosted OCS users can see whether colleagues are available, away, busy or offline.  It integrates with Outlook, SharePoint and the desktop client Office Communicator.  So if a user has a meeting from 10am to 11am, they will automatically display as ‘busy’ in Office Communicator
• Conversations are saved.  OCS lets users save and search IM conversations inside Outlook, just like their email.
• Secure and private. Secure instant messaging allows users to send messages with end-to-end encryption so sensitive information is never at risk of being hacked.
• Higher productivity. PC-to-PC file transferring functionality allows instant document-sharing, increasing productivity and efficiency.

Unified communications - In addition to a secure instant messaging tool, hosted OCS 2007 provides your business with unified communications.  It integrates Outlook email, instant messaging, voice and video, all in one product.