FastViewer currently serves more than 4,000 customers
Siemens Enterprise Communications has announced it will acquire FastViewer, a German-based company that specializes in collaboration and Web conferencing tools, with plans to add the tools to the OpenScape UC Suite 2011 edition.
FastViewer was established in 2006, and its portfolio includes software-based Web conferencing, desktop sharing and e-collaboration solutions. The software was designed with ease of use in mind, featuring “one-click collaboration” so users can move seamlessly between Web, chat and multi-party desktop video conferencing. Installed in as little as an hour starting with a single server, the solution does not require PC client software, simplifying administration yet allowing users access to the collaboration applications from any network-connected workstation; however, mobile collaboration clients are provided smartphones including the iPhone and Blackberry. FastViewer currently serves more than 4,000 customers.
Siemens Enterprise Communications plans to incorporate the FastViewer features as part of the OpenScape UC Suite 2011 edition. The new features will be branded as “OpenScape Web Collaboration” and will offer “advanced encryption, password-protected web sessions and virtually unlimited scalability via cascading server architecture,” according to the company’s statement. The system is designed for use either as an on premise or as a hosted solution
The new OpenScape UC Suite 2011 also includes:
- OpenScape PhoneApps, packaged to provide custom productivity and collaboration applications to OpenStage phones and including a developer toolkit
- Updates to OpenScape Video, expanding integration with third-parties including Polycom, Tandberg and Lifesize and adding H.264 HD video conferencing for the OpenScape desktop client.
OpenScape Mobility, improving mobile collaboration clients (including for the iPad and iPhone) along with enhancement for the fixed-mobile convergence, WLAN and mobile UC solutions.
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