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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
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"What's emerging as Bantu's specialty-embedding IM and presence within corporate intranets-is becoming an increasingly sought-after feature in enterprise IM systems."
- Instant Messaging Planet
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"With Bantu, Sprint ICC users have the freedom to hold real-time, Web-based conversations while collaborating on everything from remote training to presentation development."
- Sprint
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Reaping
Real Benefits, Eliminating Costly Risks
The widespread use of IM in the consumer world is quickly
moving into the corporate arena. With more than 25 million
people using IM as a business productivity tool—often
without department knowledge or approval (Yankee Group)—companies
are realizing they can obtain greater productivity benefits
from this, and minimize security risks, if they standardize
on an enterprise IM platform.
Bantu
provides corporations in telecommunications, financial services,
technology and other industries, the productivity benefits,
cost savings and peace of mind they need:
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Enhanced productivity through improved communications and
collaboration, and easier multi-tasking. Bantu helps everyone
from executives wanting to make themselves more accessible
and maintain real-time connections with employees, partners
and stakeholders; to customer service reps wanting to improve
efficiencies and responsiveness; to sales professionals
wanting to know when prospects are online and be able to
take immediate action to convert them to customers.
- Heightened
Security through 2-way encryption, authentication, logging/archiving
and more, enables IT to extend security policies for internal
and external communication and ensure compliance with all
regulatory (SEC, NASD, NYSE) requirements
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Reduced use of more costly and time-consuming means of communication,
including phone and travel
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Integration into existing enterprise applications increases
use of those applications and makes them more valuable
- Extending
IM with integration into other asynchronous and synchronous
tools such as videoconferencing, whiteboarding and application
sharing, provides a rich collaboration environment
Examples
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Sprint
Sprint
has integrated Bantu into its Internet Collaboration
Center (ICC), a web-based multi-media business conferencing
service. By providing Sprint ICC customers with secure,
easy-to-use IM technology, Sprint enables businesses
of all sizes to increase collaborative efforts and improve
productivity. And, Bantu’s comprehensive security
ensures Sprint users that IM conversations are encrypted
and secure.
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Stock-Borrow.com
Stock-Borrow.com,
a financial services Web site that displays securities
available for loan, integrated Bantu’s Presence
and IM capabilities to enable member companies including
American Express Financial Advisors, Goldman Sachs,
Merrill Lynch, and UBS PaineWebber, to more quickly
communicate about, and negotiate loans on securities
– in a fully secure environment. Through the Bantu
Presence Application Programming Interface (API), names
of traders associated with a security available for
loan appear throughout Stock-Borrow.com (for example,
on message boards or on a stock needs list). Wherever
their names appear, they can be instantly contacted
by a borrower or lender. Through Bantu’s patent-pending
technology, all messages sent between users are fully
encrypted. In addition, the Bantu platform enables Stock-Borrow.com
members to comply with regulations by saving time-stamped
transcripts of trader dialogues.
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Texas
Instruments
Texas
Instruments is using Bantu to improve communications
among global employees, partners and suppliers. TI selected
Bantu because it works across multiple computer platforms,
is easy to use and deploy, offers the security and scalability
they require, and enables employees to communicate with
people outside the company since Bantu interoperates
with other messaging services such as Yahoo! and MSN
Messenger. Available to all TI employees, the messenger
allows for fast and easy collaboration between the global
manufacturing plants and offices.
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webMethods
webMethods
has deployed the Bantu Platform to its Professional
Services organization, enabling instant communication
between multiple people at multiple companies, in multiple
locations. Bantu enables webMethods consultants to more
effectively collaborate with colleagues working at remote
client sites, with clients themselves and with partners
who are integrating webMethods products into customer
environments. Bantu was selected because for high security,
its ability to be easily integrated into webMethods’
partnership management application, and the fact that
consultants and partners can access Bantu EIM from anywhere,
whether at the client’s facility, a hotel room,
or the webMethods main office.
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SAIC
Science
Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Strategies
Group uses Bantu EIM for real-time collaboration among
its 500-person staff. SAIC employees provide integrated
solutions and consulting services to government and
commercial companies around the world. Their need for
a secure IM that is available to globally dispersed
users on multiple platforms made Bantu's EIM a natural
fit. Users rely on Bantu for daily team communications
and improved operational productivity.
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