Compaq Rolls Out Workgroup
Tools For Exchange Server
(02/03/99, 12:54 p.m. ET)
By Stuart J. Johnston, InformationWeek
Compaq introduced on Tuesday its Enterprise Suite for
Microsoft Exchange Server, a set of four tools that add
enterprise workgroup capabilities to Microsoft's
messaging engine.
The suite, some elements of which are already shipping,
includes products that let users create approval routing
systems, handle message archiving and retrieval, create
collaborative workflow systems, and build and manage
mass mailings of electronic messages to selected
groups. All are tightly integrated with Exchange Server,
according to Signe Maximous, Compaq's enterprise
software marketing manager.
Approval Expeditor, which is scheduled to ship this
spring, will be priced at $1,495 for the server with five
client licenses. Additional clients will sell for between
$49 and $99, depending on the number of clients
purchased.
Enterprise Vault, the archiving product, began shipping
in early January and is priced between $325 and
$35,000, depending on the capacity of the server.
Clients sell for between $15 and $43 each. The product
uses Compaq's popular AltaVista content search engine
for retrieval searches, and is intended primarily to make
sure important messages are properly archived,
managed, and restored.
Compaq Work Expeditor began shipping last
September and lets users build collaborative workflow
and document-management applications on Exchange
Server. It is priced at $2,950 for each server, and
clients range from $75 to $199, depending on how
many licenses are purchased.
Correspondence Manager lets users search multiple
databases for names of potential e-mail recipients based
on user-definable criteria, thus compiling distribution
lists. Such a list might be defined for distribution of
company information updates to selected staff, for
instance. The aim is to reduce the cost for sending mail
to targeted groups of users. Correspondence Manager
began shipping in late January and is priced at $750 for
the server and $5 for each recipient.
All the products in the suite require Microsoft Exchange
Server. Additionally, all the products except Approval
Expeditor require a copy of Microsoft SQL Server.
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