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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
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"We wanted a vendor who would adapt to our needs and work through issues with us quickly… Bantu was an easy decision."

- U.S. Navy

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"Despite having to negotiate layers of network firewalls and internal regulations, it took only two weeks for Bantu to deploy its EIM."

- U.S. Army

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Professional Services: Accelerating your Time-to-Benefit

Bantu’s expert EIM consultants are architects and product specialists dedicated to helping you create, rapidly deploy and maintain a real-time EIM system that meets your specific needs and is fully integrated into your business. Our Professional Services include:

Installation

Bantu’s installation services are designed for rapid deployment. For on-site installations, our technical experts in both network infrastructure and the Bantu platform/interfaces work closely with the right resources from your enterprise to define and execute a project plan that is managed and expedited by a dedicated Bantu account manager. As part of this plan, we recommend the hardware configuration best suited to your EIM deployment.

Integration

Key to the value of the Bantu platform is the ability to tightly integrate it with the other productivity and communications tools driving your business. Using the Bantu suite of XML-based APIs, we help you fully integrate Bantu with your:

  • Enterprise Integration Portal (EIP)
  • Enterprise applications such as CRM, ERP, SCM
  • Synchronous collaboration tools such as voice and videoconferencing, whiteboarding and application sharing
  • Asynchronous collaboration tools such as document management, knowledge management, project management

Customization

Customization services to make the Bantu Platform conform to your business’ unique requirements, can be part of every Bantu customer engagement. We leverage Bantu’s flexible framework to tailor interfaces and functionality at both the organization and user levels. We assign a technical implementation manager to customize the EIM’s front-end interface so that it reflects your branding and look-and-feel, and we review each function, such as multi-network support and server-side logging of communications, to determine whether it should be enabled or disabled.

Education

Bantu offers multiple training courses designed to make it exceedingly easy for administrators and users to get up-to-speed on, and begin using and benefiting from, the Bantu EIM Platform:

  • End-User
    Offered in classroom or online settings, this provides an introduction to all the primary features and functions of Bantu IM, Presence and Alerts.
  • Power User
    Designed primarily for users who wish to become familiar with the more advanced features of Bantu Platform and understand how it works at a server level.
  • Application Administration
    This in-room class is for users who with administrative privileges to any of the global settings of the application.
  • Server Administration
    For Network Administrators, this in-depth class covers how to Install the Bantu software, start/stop servers, troubleshoot servers, deploy new servers, and integrate into security infrastructure.
  • API and Interface
    Designed for programmers and users who will be doing front end integration of Bantu into other enterprise applications, this class covers all of Bantu’s published APIs.