OfficeStatus 1.6.1.0

OfficeStatus 1.6.1.0 is a powerful, distributed in/out board software system offering your organization with improved employee collaboration, management, and security. Any member of your staff can determine at a glance whether an associate is in or out, at lunch, on vacation, etc.

OfficeStatus gives you instant access to status and availability information for your entire workforce, improving your ability to provide quality customer service and optimize the use of your most critical resources.

Major Benefits:

1. Improved Staff Collaboration, Management, and Security
2. "Run Anywhere" Web & Windows Deployment Flexibility
3. Improved customer service Improved Customer Service and Response Times
4. Flexible Administration and Customization Support
5. Workforce status reporting and visualization Workforce Status Reporting & Visualization Capabilities

Major Features:

1. Web & Desktop Interfaces. OfficeStatus provides two powerful user (client) interfaces - one runs on the user's desktop, the other is web-based. The desktop client offer rich status detection and notification features, while the web interface is accessible from anywhere, and by nearly any operating system. Users can use either interface - or both. Learn more!
2. Employee Status Board. Employee Status Board Our uniquely flexible and interactive employee status board increases the awareness, productivity, and efficiency of your entire organization. OfficeStatus eliminates time wasted trying to track down the employees that are critical to your business operations. See the status of employees across multiple departments and locations - at a glance. See it now!
3. Quick Status Changes. Both OfficeStatus end user interfaces provide the ability to change a user's status with just two mouse clicks within the status board view. The OfficeStatus Client desktop application goes even further, allowing quick status changes from the user's notification area (system tray). See it in action!
4. Future Status Scheduling. Future Status Scheduling OfficeStatus users can schedule status changes to occur in the future. The status schedule window can be used to review upcoming status changes for any user, and Status Schedule reports can be used to review the schedules of multiple users at once. See it in action!
5. Automatic Status Detection. The OfficeStatus desktop client application provides environmental monitoring capabilities that can automatically sense changes in the end user's status. Full configurable, status changes can be triggered by environmental events such as the user doing idle, workstation lock and unlock, screen saver engagement, Windows logon and logoff, and more.
6. Status Watches. Status Watches allow users to monitor status changes in others, improving communications efficiency. OfficeStatus Desktop Client displays status watch alerts in the user's notification area (system tray).
7. Integrated Note System. Integrated Note System OfficeStatus Notes provide a messaging system that employees can use to track incoming phone calls and improve inter-office communications. Simple yet robust, OfficeStatus Notes support multiple recipients, integrated spell checking (desktop client only), forwarding and replying, and much more.
   
8. Employee Work Schedules. The work schedule of each OfficeStatus user (as well as a site-default) can be specified within OfficeStatus, allowing the system to provide users with return time assistance during status change operations.
9. Return Time Assistance. The status change window harnesses the system's knowledge of employee work schedules to provide return time assistance features to end users.
10. Advanced Reporting
11. Advanced Reporting OfficeStatus includes a robust reporting engine with Employee, Location, Departmental, and Status History reports. All reports provide page-based printing, can be exported to multiple formats, and are accessible via both the desktop and web user interfaces.
12. Integrated Help. With OfficeStatus, help is always just a button or hyperlink click away - reducing end user support and training costs.
13. Highly Customizable. Both OfficeStatus end user interfaces provide a range of configuration options to help employees maximize their use of the system.
14. Contact Information Management. Contact Information Management OfficeStatus puts the contact information of all employees at the fingertips of your entire organization. Users can manage their own contact information (including photo, multiple phone and address records, email and IM addresses, etc.) from within the web-based interface.
15. Workforce Status Visualization. OfficeStatus Windows Client provides a powerful, dynamic workforce status visualization mechanism that employers your staff with superior collaboration and labor routing capabilities. See it in action!
16. Flexible User Management. OfficeStatus offers system administrators full control over user accounts through the administrative section of the web-based interface. Available attributes include user image, work schedule, location, departmental membership, and much more.
17. Departments and Locations. User accounts can be organized into departments and locations to better reflect corporate structure. User status board listings can be filtered by department or location, improving efficiency and making employees easier to find.
18. Role Based Security. Role Based Security OfficeStatus utilizes a simple, yet highly effective, role-based security model in which a user's role membership determines their rights and capabilities within the system. Role membership affects status management, report viewing, administrative, and other functional areas of the system.
19. Custom Statuses. OfficeStatus goes way beyond "In" and "Out" - define any status you like within the system, and select from our broad array of built-in status icons (or use a custom icon if you prefer). Custom statuses are available to all users within the system, regardless of their choice of client interface.
20. Logging & Alerting. Comprehensive logging facilities help you to track down issues when they occur. Integrated alerting can bring the more serious problems to your immediate attention.
21. Custom Phone & Address Types. Administrators can define custom telephone and address types to help categories contact information for OfficeStatus users.
22. Active Directory User Import. Get up and running faster by importing user accounts from your existing Active Directory store.
23. Note Broadcasting. Note Broadcasting OfficeStatus system administrators can broadcast a message (in the form of a note) to all users at once, or just to a select group. This tool can be used to let your users know about scheduled system maintenance, etc.
24. Flexible Licensing. OfficeStatus allows you to combine multiple product licenses, each of which enables the addition of a specific number of users. This makes it easy to upgrade user capacity, and allows you to purchase only as many user licenses as you need.
25. Daily Status Emails. Optional daily status emails keep you up-to-date on any system alerts that may require review.
26. Client Settings Management. Client Settings Management OfficeStatus administrators can define default values for a broad range of user client settings, optimizing the experience of your end users. Client settings can also be "locked down" individually, so that end users can't change them.
27. Automatic Database Maintenance. OfficeStatus Server installs a Windows background service that provides automatic database maintenance (such as pruning of old user status history records, etc.) to help keep the system lean, efficient and responsive.
28. Broad Client OS Support (32 & 64 bit). OfficeStatus Windows Client runs on nearly any Microsoft Windows operating system (from Windows 98 on up), and will run natively in either 32 or 64 bit environments.
29. Distributed, Service Oriented Architecture. Distributed Service Oriented Architecture OfficeStatus Windows Client communicates with OfficeStatus Server through a flexible and efficient web service layer, making it fully remotable (even across the Internet) without additional firewall configuration. Learn more!
30. Broad Browser Support (Web Interface). The OfficeStatus web-based interface supports FireFox (version 2.0 or later), Internet Explorer (version 6 or later), Google Chrome (version 0.2 or later), and Safari (version 3.0 or later).
31. Simple Product Installation. Unlike some modern distributed software solutions, OfficeStatus Server provides an elegant and straight-forward installation experience that fully configures underlying web and database dependencies. OfficeStatus Windows Client installation is also a breeze (we even provide an MSI install package suitable for Group Policy deployment).

• Numerous improvements to client and server components