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ALSO CALLED: IM (Instant Messaging), Instant Messaging (Communications) DEFINITION: Instant messaging, often shortened to simply "IM" or "IMing," is the exchange of text messages through a a software application in real-time. Generally included in the IM software is the ability to easily see whether a chosen friend, co-worker or "buddy" is online and connected through the selected service. Instant messaging differs from ordinary e-mail in the immediacy of the message exchange and … Definition continues below.
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Email Archiving: Understanding the Reasons, Risks and Rewards sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Regulatory compliance, legal discovery and storage management issues are driving more organizations to consider email archiving. Here's what you should know when making decisions about your organization's use of email archiving technology. Posted: 17 Nov 2009 \| Published: 17 Nov 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Electronic Discovery \| Email Archiving \| Email Archiving Software \| Instant Messaging \| Knowledge Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Storage Management

Best Practices for Securing Web 2.0 sponsored by Patriot Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper was designed with the aim of revealing, understanding, analyzing, and presenting the predominant issues relating to the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the corporate environment. Posted: 09 Oct 2009 \| Published: 09 Oct 2009 TOPICS: Instant Messaging \| Instant Messaging Security \| Security Management \| Security Threats \| Social Computing \| Social Networking \| Web 2.0 \| Web Application Security

Implementing Cisco's Web 2.0 Collaboration Technologies sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. Posted: 26 May 2009 \| Published: 26 May 2009 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Collaboration \| Instant Messaging \| Instant Messaging Software \| RSS \| SaaS ERP \| Software as a Service \| Telephony Systems \| Unified Messaging \| Unified Messaging Systems \| Web 2.0 \| Wikis

Best Practices for Controlling Skype in your Enterprise sponsored by Blue Coat WHITE PAPER: Skype usage is continuing to gain ground in enterprises with over 250 million downloads worldwide. Management therefore needs to decide whether the benefits overcome the drawbacks and set appropriate policies within the organization. Read this paper for more details. Posted: 14 May 2009 \| Published: 14 May 2009 TOPICS: Enterprise Systems \| Firewall Appliances \| Firewall Management \| Instant Messaging \| Instant Messaging Security \| Telephony Services \| Telephony Systems \| VoIP

Mastering New Challenges in Text Analytics: Making Unstructured Data Ready for Predictive Analytics sponsored by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters WHITE PAPER: This paper briefly defines text analytics, describes various approaches to text analytics, and then focuses on the natural language processing techniques used by SPSS Inc.'s text analytics solutions. Posted: 20 Feb 2009 \| Published: 20 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Business Processes \| CRM \| Customer Loyalty \| Customer Service \| Data Mining \| Databases \| Instant Messaging \| Marketing

Unified Messaging and Unified Communications sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: This paper explains various ways unified communications solutions have proven their ability to help organizations solve various problems like, enabling them to transform their business, streamline business processes and reduce costs. Posted: 10 Feb 2009 \| Published: 10 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Business Processes \| Collaboration \| Instant Messaging \| IP Telephony \| Spreadsheets \| Unified Messaging

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INSTANT MESSAGING DEFINITION (continued): … also makes a continued exchange simpler than sending e-mail back and forth. Most exchanges are text-only, though popular services, such as AOL, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and Apple's iChat now allow voice messaging, file sharing and even video chat when both users have cameras. For IMing to work, both users must be online at the same time and the intended recipient must be willing to accept instant messages, as it is possible to configure the IM client to reject chat sessions. An attempt to send an IM to someone who is not online, or who is not willing to accept IMs, will result in notification …
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