Ensim Corporation has announced a major upgrade of its unified service delivery platform, Unify, including support for the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC), Windows-based Hosting (WBH) technology, Microsoft Connected Services Framework (CSF) 3.0, and a new resource selection policy feature.
Ensim Unify now delivers increased functionality and support for Microsoft's HMC solution, such as Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL 2005, and the Microsoft Provisioning System 2.2 (MPS 2.2). It also provisions many additional services like RIM's BlackBerry and BroadSoft's BroadWorks that are not available as part of the HMC solution.
Customers can now easily launch the complete suite of Windows hosted services, while enabling additional high-value applications, such as VoIP, Unified Messaging and mobility services, to be centrally delivered. Unify can also be installed over an existing HMC deployment.
Unify A Single Point of Delivery
Co-developed with Microsoft, Unify delivers a complete solution for the management and automation of Windows services under a hosted infrastructure
Unify's powerful role-based delegated administration tool allows end customers to maintain complete control of services, while lowering support costs
Users can easily deploy Exchange 2003, Windows SharePoint services, Live Communications Server 2005, Windows and Linux web hosting with ASP.NET, MySQL and MS SQL 2005
Additional third party applications, including Fenestrae Communications Server, Cycos, SmarterMail, Siemens HiPath OpenScape, and Broadsoft BroadWorks can also be delivered
Highlights of the latest version of Ensim Unify 3.2 include:
Support for Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) / Windows-based Hosting (WBH) Technology
Support for Windows Server 2003 R2, SQL 2005 and MPS 2.2. With Unify 3.2, service providers can easily deploy Exchange 2003, Windows SharePoint, Live Communications Server 2005, and Windows/Linux Web hosting with ASP.NET, MySQL and MS SQL as hosted services
Support for .NET 2.0 the latest version of the Microsoft .NET Framework
Providers can easily add Web parts to the Unify control panel. This is done by either downloading ASP.NET-based Web parts from the Internet, or by creating their own Web parts and plugging them into Unify
Unify can be installed over an existing HMC deployment. New services can be provisioned through Unify to take advantage of the additional features
Support for Microsoft Connected Services Framework (CSF) 3.0
Unify 3.2 Web services support Well-Enabled Services (WES), allowing Web Service Enhancements (WSE) for Microsoft .NET. This enables any application provisioned by Unify to automatically work with Microsoft CSF 3.0
In addition to existing Microsoft applications like Exchange and SharePoint, service providers can offer additional ones such as BroadSoft's BroadWorks, RIM's BlackBerry and Siemens HiPath OpenScape
Resource Selection Policy
With Unify 3.2, providers can now choose between First Fit, Round Robin, and Least Sold Key Quota policies while provisioning a Unify service to an organization. The latest version of Unify also includes locale management, deactivation of email templates, password validation using Active Directory (AD) policy, expiration policy for organization user password, usage report optimization, modified API calls, and new Web services for managing resellers, resources, templates, and usage alerts
With support for CSF 3.0 and the latest versions of the Windows operating system, Unify 3.2 enables providers to quickly launch new services more easily and cost-effectively than ever before, said Arun Arunkumar, vice president of engineering at Ensim Corporation. Ensim Unify 3.2 is available for purchase immediately. |
