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| iLinc Communications Issues iLinc 8.0 iLinc Communications, Inc. has announced that the Company has released the next generation of iLinc Web conferencing, iLinc 8.0 for general availability. 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. 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 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. 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 main 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. 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. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |