INSTANT TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES INSTANT AGENT FRAMEWORK FOR MICROSOFT ACTIVE DIRECTORY

Instant Technologies (“Instant”) of Beverly, Massachusetts today announced the availability of the next member of it's Instant Agent Framework family, namely Instant Agent Framework for Microsoft Active Directory. With today’s announcement, Instant brings quick access to a corporations Active Directory via their popular Lotus Instant Messaging client (formerly IBM Lotus Sametime).

"Using Instant Agent Framework for Microsoft Active Directory, users can get instant access to important user information that is often hidden away like phone numbers, job details and office location" said Carl Tyler, Chief Technology Officer for Instant Technologies "customers told us loud and clear how they liked the easy to use and deploy Instant Agent Framework, but they told us they wanted to access Microsoft Active Directory with our technology. Instant Agent Framework for Microsoft Active Directory allows them to do that with all ease of use that was present in our earlier versions."

Trial versions can be downloaded from the Instant Technologies website at http://www.instant-tech.com/trials.cfm

To see a demonstration of the Instant Agent Framework in action, go to http://www.instant-tech.com/livebots.cfm

Instant Agent Framework for Microsoft Active Directory is available from select Microsoft and IBM partners and via Instant’s website at www.instant-tech.com.


ABOUT INSTANT TECHNOLOGIES
Located in Beverly, MA, Instant Technologies (www.instant-tech.com) is a privately held software company dedicated to extending the software functionality commonly associated with real-time, collaborative ("RTC") technologies. Instant is the 2003 IBM Lotus Beacon Award Winner and winner of the e-Pro Magazine readers choice Apex Award.


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