We are pleased to announce the launch of the FirstClass Collaboration Suite 9.0, the latest and most powerful release of one of the industry's leading solutions for communication, collaboration, content management, and online networking.
The FirstClass Collaboration Suite is designed to facilitate and enhance communication, collaboration and knowledge sharing by connecting key stakeholders within the education framework - including students, faculty, parents, administration, and alumni - within a secure, online environment.
FirstClass brings together a variety of popular technologies within a fully integrated suite of applications that is cost-effective, flexible, and easy to manage and administer.
FirstClass 9.0 delivers a number of new features and enhancements that can be categorised into three major areas:
NEW - Archiving and Compliance
As regulatory and institutional authorities come to terms with the importance of electronic messaging in the modern organisation, it is becoming increasingly critical to provide reliable long term storage of historical messages. FirstClass 9.0 addresses these issues with the introduction of FirstClass Archive Services, a completely integrated archiving system for FirstClass.
FirstClass Archive Services will perform a number of very important functions which will enable FirstClass to address the growing need that many customers have to meet legal and policy-based compliance requirements. By providing for policy-driven automatic archiving at the server, it completely removes any chance of users forgetting to archive critical messages. The actual retention period for archived messages may also be specified on a per-group basis. In addition, since archiving is based on the proven FirstClass Single Copy Message Architecture, messages sent to multiple recipients take up no extra space in the Archive.
NEW - Support for Unicode
Traditionally, FirstClass (like most operating systems) has used multiple character sets to support non-English languages. This has led to various limitations, including difficulty supporting multiple character sets in a single document and difficulty in viewing multiple character sets on different operating systems. As a result, operating systems have adopted a new unified character encoding called Unicode, which allows all possible national characters to be viewed on all platforms.
The new Unicode support in FirstClass 9.0 enables FirstClass applications to include all possible national characters. This includes messages, document bodies, forms fields, and even system data such as names, User IDs, and passwords. Unicode support is fully integrated into FirstClass Internet Services for seamless inbound and outbound mail and web publishing with non-English characters.
Enhanced Applications
FirstClass 9.0 features numerous enhancements which will benefit all FirstClass applications. These enhancements include customisable launch bars, improved handling of large name lists, enhanced mobility support, and InstantSearch. In addition to these cross-application enhancements, several of the FirstClass applications have received substantial upgrades, including the Mail, Calendar, and Contacts applications.
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