Formicary announces latest messaging solution and software, FastTrack and ChatSeer™

For the Group Chat feature of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2

[LONDON, United Kingdom] — Feb. 3, 2009 —Formicary Limited, provider of financial technology solutions announced the release of the ‘FastTrack’ implementation solution and the latest version of ChatSeer, an Enterprise Chat Monitoring and Compliance tool. Both releases are built for  the Group Chat feature of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2).

“FastTrack is a cost and time effective solution for both implementation for first time clients and migration of existing MindAlign (predecessor of Group Chat) clients. Formicary  delivers in-depth experience and a successful record of implementing and migrating enterprise chat rooms within major institutions for Group Chat,” said Philip Miller, Intelligent Messaging Director, Formicary Ltd.

“We have worked for the past seven years with Group Chat and have built a good reputation for successful implementation, migration and development of high quality messaging software. Microsoft’s acquisition of Parlano’s Group Chat technology and its incorporation into Office Communications Server 2007 R2 have led to Formicary building a valuable relationship with Microsoft. Over the past year we have worked together to create an implementation and migration strategy and a search and compliance tool ready for Group Chat,” Mr Miller added.

Other than solution services, as part of Formicary’s involvement with Group Chat since 2000 Formicary has been developing a range of compatible integration software, most noted of all is ChatSeer. ChatSeer is a software that ensures response to discovery and litigation requests on all internal and external instant messaging communication is simpler, quicker and returns accurate useful results which simplifies business audit processes.

“Unlike many other search and compliance tools, ChatSeer does not convert instant messages to email; instead it understands and treats chat conversations natively. This makes the search process faster and more accurate”, said Alistair Milne, ChatSeer Product Manager, Formicary Ltd.

 Other ChatSeer features include:

·         Full compatibility with the Group Chat feature of Office Communications Server 2007 R2

·         MyChat – a personal compliance tool, which allows individual users to search and retrieve their own chat messages in one-to-one, one-to-many or chat room based conversation

·         Archives and searches messages in their native format

·         Search engine format view

·         Perfect chronological reconstruction of any private or group conversation

·         Archives and searches Microsoft Office Live Meeting conferences

·         Exports search results to Microsoft Office Excel

·         Case workflow functionality – including

o    Permission-based searching, reviewing and production of cases

o    Ability to ‘prune’ search results for increased relevance

o    Legal hold on messages and files involved in an ongoing case

·         System health information page

·         All searches and workflow actions fully audited

 “The combination of Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 and Formicary ChatSeer™ provides a powerful new way for people to collaborate and offers customers a rich and integrated communications experience,” said Eric Swift, senior director of the Microsoft Unified Communications Group at Microsoft Corp. “Formicary is adding significant value to enterprise communications and enabling businesses to better connect people, information and business processes.”

Formicary’s long successful involvement with Parlano’s MindAlign, the technology behind Group Chat, has earned them the status of principle partner for implementation and upgrade (before Parlano’s acquirement by Microsoft in 2007). Being a consistent active partner for some of the world’s tier one Investment Banks’ MindAlign system makes Formicary a preferred choice for implementation and migration solution and provider of bespoke integration software centred on Group Chat.

About FastTrack
A methodology that allows implementation and migration to the new Group Chat feature of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 developed and based on over seven years of experience and successful projects with many of the world’s top Investment Banks.

About ChatSeer 2.0
An advanced Enterprise Chat Monitoring and Compliance Tool designed for discovery and investigation requests for the Group Chat feature of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, other Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) as well as Microsoft Office Live Meeting, ChatSeer indexes all instant message data securely and allows authorised users to search messages in their original format and perfectly reconstructs conversations including attachments for easy visual investigation.

About Formicary
Formicary Ltd is an information technology consultancy that specialises in providing first class solutions, primarily for the Financial Services industry for international clients around the globe. Formicary Intelligent Messaging Group (FIMG) is an independent consulting company relating to Instant Messaging and particularly Group Chat. Formicary has a leading and highly experienced SI and ISV team working with Group Chat  and has been working closely with Microsoft on system implementation, integration and migration strategies. FIMG can provide a wide range of services including investigate, review and advise on strategy relating to unified collaboration and integration technologies. Formicary consultants work closely with clients to guide on external federation, migration, integration and the complex world of Enterprise Search and IM/Group Chat compliance ensuring clients take best advantage of the converging messaging technologies and have a robust, future proof unified collaboration strategy. FIMG also has the largest commercially available software (Bots) for Group Chat & IM that are being used across a large number of financial organizations. To know more, visit www.formicary.net

For more information, press only: Angeline Cheng, Formicary Ltd, +44 (0)20 7920 7106, angeline.cheng@formicary.net