Additional features of the Universal Information Client (UIC) that assist with collaborative tasks, supported in part by the Universal Information Server.
Calendaring and Scheduling
Easy-to-use personal diary and meeting management that is built-in to the UIC
- Personal Calendar - individual calendar that can be held in the message store of a NET-TEL Universal Information Server
- At-a-glance schedule - forthcoming events are clearly shown
- Appointments and Events - record appointments and all-day events, add rich text annotations and attach documents
- Personalised reminders - reminders for appointments with configurable sounds
- Meeting management - graphical review of participant availability with simple arrangement of meetings via e-mail
- Open working - adherence to the IETF iCalendar standards allows interaction with third-party products and Internet solutions
- Fast free/busy queries - review availability of colleagues in real-time
- Highly scaleable - applicable from workgroup to the enterprise, uses a distributable free/busy service with no costly replication mechanisms
- No management overhead - all configuration and management is derived from the underlying messaging service
Embedded support for secretarial e-mail assistance, mirroring traditional paper mail handling
- Workload assistance - secretary may manage the new and stored messages of one or more managers
- Delegated authority - send messages on behalf of manager
- Separate message status - manager and secretary may see which of them has read, deleted and replied to each message
Directory-based people finder for locating addressees across the enterprise or the globe
- Find e-mail addresses - look-up of e-mail addresses in LDAP or X.500 directories
- Record new addresses - simple recording into address book
- Wide search scope - search across many directories in one step
