We have a partnership with Webex.  We use their serivce
for cross-firewall app sharing--something that Netmeeting/Messenger
and Sametime require a lot of configuration of firewalls,
authentications, access controls and user training for.
Now Webex has invites, instant meeting launch without any
configuration. Users like it as now they have something to do
in between Web conferences and places to store and author
documents, reschedule meetings, relaunch meetings.  Webex likes
it as people are signed on all the time.
Greg
September 19, 2002
Tadpole's Secure Web Software Subsidiary Endeavors Technology Teams With Web
Meetings Leader WebEx Communications
To Provide Best-of-Breed Solution For Extended Group Collaboration During
and Between Online Meetings
Web meetings raise the quality of team interaction and communications for
users of the Web's secure, P2P collaboration network
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Tadpole Technology plc, the mobile computing and network infrastructure
group, today announces that its web collaboration subsidiary, Endeavors
Technology, Inc., has teamed with Web meetings leader, WebEx
Communications,Inc. to help professionals make better use of corporate time
and resources, and gain competitive advantage. By integrating the advanced
communications capabilities of the WebEx platform with Endeavors' secure P2P
collaboration network, Endeavors has created a new method of world-class
teamwork and interaction without the hassle of travel.
With the rapid growth in popularity of Web meetings, the rationale for this
world-class relationship stems from the growing need for workgroups around
the world to maintain the quality of the team collaboration experience
between online meetings. The issue by those preferring not to travel is how
to continue to collaborate and share information with team members between
meetings rather than depending on intermittent, insecure email and multiple
copies of constantly changing documents.
Inter-meeting collaboration needs an asynchronous medium, independent of
time. In asynchronous mode, a team member can access, read and edit
information relevant to the meeting group at his/her convenience rather than
having to fit into the schedules and timeframes of others. A secured
environment available only to members of a meeting or project is also
essential.
Endeavors' Magi technology converts the Web into a secure platform for
sharing information directly from people's desktops. WebEx meetings can be
recorded and reviewed at any time, documents shared in the meeting can be
actioned in real-time or at a later date, calendars and project schedules
can be updated at any time, and new individuals added to the workgroup at
will . all in a secure environment with people working across the globe,
inside or outside company firewalls.
Magi peer collaboration securely delivers significant benefits to Web
meeting participants. Not only can they share and access information at
will, but they can also know which other participants are online or
"present." This enables them to chat and message each other, search across
other people's Magi environment, and work jointly on relevant documents
highly productively. With Magi collaboration, in tandem with WebEx
conferencing, the savings can be huge in terms of travel costs, phone bills,
and, most importantly, timely completion of projects and tasks.
"In order to realise the full potential of Web meetings, best-of-breed
services are needed to eliminate time and geographical boundaries," says
Bernard Hulme, Tadpole's group chief executive. "The powerful combination
of Endeavors' Magi and WebEx's communications technologies will assist
global work teams to better meet critical business goals and deadlines by
maintaining teamwork momentum within and between Web meetings."
"WebEx is transforming the way businesses use the Web for sales, marketing,
training, support and product design," says David Farrington, vice president
of corporate development at WebEx Communications. "By integrating the
communications capabilities of the WebEx platform with Endeavors' secure
collaboration network, Endeavors has created an offering that provides the
best in synchronous and asynchronous communications."
About Magi
Magi Enterprise 3.0, an award-winning web collaboration system, transforms
today's Web into a highly secure inter- and intra-enterprise collaboration
network of files and web resources. For the first time, enterprises can
implement ad-hoc Virtual Private Networks for collaboration very rapidly and
affordably without disrupting existing applications, networks or work
practices. Magi Enterprise 3.0 does this by effectively transforming
unsecured, "read-only" Web networks into two-way trusted and transparent
collaboration environments, through the use of such features as
cross-firewall connections, advanced data extraction, an intuitive graphical
interface, and universal name spaces generating "follow me URLs" for mobile
professionals.
About Endeavors Technology, Inc.
Endeavors Technology, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of mobile computing
and network infrastructure vendor Tadpole Technology plc (LSE-TAD,
www.tadpole.com), which has plants and offices in Irvine and Carlsbad
(California), and Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Bristol (UK). For further
information on Endeavors' P2P solutions, call 949-833-2800, email to
p2p@endeavors.com, or visit the company's website http://www.endeavors.com.
ends
For further information, please contact:
Bernard Hulme, Tadpole Technology - via Patcom Media
Hugh Paterson, Patcom Media - Tel 0207 987 4888, Email
hughp@patcom-media.com
Bullets for Editors
WebEx
Web communications services (synchronous): network-based platform for
delivering highly interactive, visually dynamic Web communications. The
WebEx platform supports real-time data, voice and video communications.
WebEx is the only company to design, develop and deploy a global network for
real-time Web communications.
Magi
On and off-line (asynchronous) communication and collaboration: cross
enterprise search and discovery, transparent security and trust (SSL & PKI),
2-way web access to files and applications, permanent cross firewall access,
ad hoc and permanent secure groups, centralized or decentralized control of
access lists and security privileges, centralized caching of information
(never lose anything critical), multi-device access to information (desktop,
laptop, PDA).