GROUP Business Software - Newsletter June 2010

Newsletter June 2010

1. iQ.Suite Easy Update - Summer Special 2010
2. iQ.Suite Convert is on its way - your opinion counts!
3. GROUP Workshops in June and July
4. iQ.Suite Tips and Tricks for Lotus Domino: Setup of iQ.Suite Trailer for Department-Specific need
5. Exchange/SMTP Corner: Using iQ.Suite Trailer to integrate images as logos into emails
6. iQ.Suite Wall image analyzer discontinued

1. iQ.Suite Easy Update - Summer Special 2010

When it comes to revision-proof email communication management, iQ.Suite is your reliable partner. Just like every state-of-the-art solution, iQ.Suite primarily lives by being up-to-date. That is reason enough to draw your attention to GROUP’s Summer Special 2010.

Take advantage of the numerous options provided by the new version of our email management solution and opt for iQ.Suite Easy Update! Whether on Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange/SMTP - with our Summer Special you will stay up-to-date.

Some of the iQ.Suite highlights:

Embedding images into the email footer with iQ.Suite Trailer
Implementation of the new powerful Avira antivirus technology
Support for the Avira SPACE anti-spam engine, including auto-update functionality
Numerous performance and stability improvements

What you get:

1 day iQ.Suite update on site, including travel expenses
Update to current iQ.Suite version
Introduction to new functions

Price: EUR 990.00 (excl. VAT, GBP 950.00 for orders from UK)

Order iQ.Suite Easy Update today and benefit from increased performance and reliability of email management. Our summer offer is valid for orders received until 31 August 2010, with the implementation of the update to be performed until 31 December 2010. For further details and a fax reply form please refer to the following PDF.

(Requires a valid maintenance contract, valid for 1-2 iQ.Suite servers; iQ.Suite Store excluded from this offer. Further updates upon request)

To give you an idea of the new functionalities offered by the iQ.Suite Easy Update, we have put together a series of "What‘s New Webinars". Register now for free:

2. iQ.Suite Convert is on its way - your opinion counts!

GROUP is working on a new module - iQ.Suite Convert - to be released in the first half of 2011. It is designed to provide the possibility to convert all attachments of an email centrally to either PDF, TIFF or ZIP. This is to avoid sending the original documents while saving disk space and reducing network load.

As it is our goal to align our solutions to the needs of our customers and partners, we are highly interested in finding out your opinion. Please spare a few minutes of your time and follow the link below to answer seven short questions: www.group-technologies.com/convert-en

Among all participants we will draw one lucky winner of the official FIFA World Cup 2010 football, worth 120 €. This should be ideal to tune in to the World Cup or get actively involved yourself. The winner will be notified by email and announced in the next newsletter. The closing date is 30 June 2010.

(Employees of GROUP and its partner companies are excluded from the draw)

3. GROUP Workshops in June and July

In June and July, we offer a number of - very compact, clearly structured and practice-oriented - webinars and workshops which should leave no questions unanswered concerning email archiving and email encryption.

For Lotus Notes Domino users, we will demonstrate how iQ.Suite Bridge and iQ.Suite Store can be used for revision-proof archiving while reducing the size of email files. In July you can find out more about encryption in general and cryptographic methods and our iQ,Suite WebCrypt encryption solution in particular. In addition, both June and July feature workshops on iQ.Suite Wall and iQ.Suite Watchdog.

Also in July, as mentioned before in this newsletter under iQ.Suite Easy Update - Summer Special 2010, we will hold a number of "What's New Webinars" that provide comprehensive information on the new iQ.Suite features, for all email platforms.

Overview of selected workshops and webinars:

Lotus Notes Domino training for customers and partners:

Microsoft Exchange/SMTP training for customers and partners:

What’s New Webinar on 2 July 2010

To sign up for any of the workshops and webinars please visit our training page. Click here for details on training dates and contents.

We look forward to your participation!

4. iQ.Suite Tips and Tricks for Lotus Domino: Setup of iQ.Suite Trailer for Department-Specific need

iQ.Suite Trailer helps you meet the legal requirements regarding email correspondence. Ensuring a consistent appearance of the company, the software allows to integrate individual and even multilingual text blocks, for a freely configurable period of time and to all or specific recipients. The iQ.Suite Trailer functionalities include both the selection of individual text blocks for different user groups and combining multiple trailers within an email.

For instance, you can use a formula rule to check whether the sender of an email belongs to a specific department. To find out a trick for setting up department-specific trailers while using the public address book (names.nsf) as data source, read here.

5. Exchange/SMTP Corner: Using iQ.Suite Trailer to integrate images as logos into emails

In its most recent version, iQ.Suite Trailer features the option to integrate images into the email signature. This allows to integrate both static and dynamic information in a meaningful way and provides the user with a means to freely use either centrally managed or individually designed email signatures.

The user signatures added to a company´s outgoing emails need to follow a recognizable pattern. A uniform letterhead format including the company logo, the exact company name, the name of the CEO or Managing Director or references to commercial register entries – all these are standard elements of a consistent and legally compliant corporate design.

With the current iQ.Suite version, it is now possible to integrate image files as embedded elements into emails, e.g. in GIF or JPG format. For details on how this works with iQ.Suite for Exchange/SMTP, read the following.

6. iQ.Suite Wall image analyzer discontinued

It is our philosophy to provide our customers with high-quality solutions designed to reduce the need for administrator intervention to a bare minimum. Unfortunately, past experience has shown that, due to a rather low recognition rate, the Image Analyzer in iQ.Suite Wall did not meet the standards of this philosophy. We have therefore decided to discontinue the Image Analyzer.

Here are a few examples to illustrate this:

Portrait images were frequently wrongly identified as pornographic.
Such false positives resulted in increased administrative work for the customer.
The rate of false negatives was too high as well.
In the cases described, either an administrator had to review the quarantines or the end users had to work very intensively with the quarantine to obtain all of the information.

In this context, discontinuation means that we are no longer providing technical assistance (support, software fixes etc.) for these versions. We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you have further questions on this matter, please do not hesitate to contact GROUP under sales@group-technologies.com or your sales partner.

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