FREE MEMBERSHIP - Create your personalized Bitpipe Service!  Members: Sign in 
Search Bitpipe: 
Business of Information Technology  >   Business Processes  >   Business Communications  >  

Instant Messaging

RSS Feed    Add to Google    Add to My Yahoo!
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.
Instant Messaging Reports
11 Matches
Sprint Complete Collaboration: Hosted, Fully Managed UC Solution
sponsored by Sprint
VIDEOCAST: This video describes how to deliver unified communications (UC) quickly, easily, and to virtually any users in any location with a comprehensive, hosted, fully managed UC solution.
Posted: 18 May 2012 | Premiered: 18 May 2012

Sprint

Collaboration ITDC: Assessing the Business/Technology Issue
sponsored by SearchUnifiedCommunications.com
VIRTUAL SEMINAR: In the first of SearchUnifiedCommunications.com’s three-part guide on selecting collaboration products, this document takes a look at the business and technology issues associated with them and provides expert guidance on the benefits you can reap by taking advantage of the various types of collaboration solutions.
Posted: 16 May 2012 | Premiered: 16 May 2012

SearchUnifiedCommunications.com

Collaboration ITDC: RFP Technology Decisions Guide
sponsored by SearchUnifiedCommunications.com
VIRTUAL SEMINAR: Part two of SearchUnifiedCommunications.com's three-part guide on collaboration products offers expert insight into gathering pertinent information into the technical information necessary to move forward in the process.
Posted: 16 May 2012 | Premiered: 16 May 2012

SearchUnifiedCommunications.com

Microsoft Lync Server Consolidation and TCO: Dell PowerEdge R720 vs. HP Proliant DL380 G7
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
TEST RESULTS: This test report evaluates two leading servers and their ability to support increasing communications requirements. Find out how each of these platforms performed under a variety of conditions and explore the advantages of consolidation.
Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

Dell and Microsoft

Dell PowerEdge Servers: The Right Choice for Collaboration
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper follows the adoption of collaboration technology and explores key selection criteria for purchasing new servers. Explore platforms equipped with the performance, memory capacity, availability, and other features your collaboration workloads require.
Posted: 17 Apr 2012 | Published: 17 Apr 2012

Dell, Inc.

How Customer Insights Drive Dell Collaboration Solutions
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Increased travel costs have led many companies to look into collaboration technology for their organizations. This white paper examines the key capabilities of these tools and discusses the server architecture required to support them.
Posted: 12 Apr 2012 | Published: 12 Apr 2012

Dell, Inc. and Intel

Advocacy Group for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Gives High Marks to BlackBerry Accessibility Features
sponsored by BlackBerry
CASE STUDY: This case study explores how Blackberry smartphones have increased the communications options for the deaf and hard of hearing community.
Posted: 11 Apr 2012 | Published: 11 Apr 2012

BlackBerry

Dell PowerEdge Servers: The Right Choice for Collaboration
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents key findings concerning your peers' collaboration plans and explores critical factors to consider when purchasing new servers. Discover platforms designed to provide the performance, memory capacity, availability, and other features your collaboration workloads require.
Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

Dell, Inc. and Intel

The Lync Server Dial Plan: An Introduction to Preparing for Implementation
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Access this resource for an overview of the configuration requirements that enforce calling privileges and call route selection, and discover how a voice policy is implemented.
Posted: 29 Sep 2011 | Published: 29 Sep 2011

Global Knowledge

An End-to-end Messaging Strategy for SMBs
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the critical requirements - reliability and availability, scalability, security, and performance - of an SMB messaging environment and describes and end-to-end messaging solution that meets those requirements.
Posted: 01 May 2010 | Published: 01 May 2010

Dell, Inc. and Intel

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

Global Knowledge
11 Matches
 
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 … 
Instant Messaging definition sponsored by SearchUnifiedCommunications.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
Home | About Us | Contact Us | Advertise with Us | Partner with Us | Site Index
TechTarget provides enterprise IT professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs - from developing strategy, to making cost-effective IT purchase decisions and managing their organizations' IT projects - with its network of technology-specific Web sites, events and magazines

Definitions: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other   TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media
TechTarget Corporate Web Site  |   Media Kits  




All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2000 - 2012, TechTarget | Read our Privacy Statement