Work with others as if they’re in the same room and make informed decisions on the spot using professional, ad-free IM. Launch video, voice communications, or desktop sharing from chat. Integrate Outlook contacts and see your Outlook calendar. Automatically track and archive all communications and collaboration.

Create a space for each virtual team. Access shared team assets instantly from any computer. Attach persistent discussion threads to documents—instead of tracking back-and-forth email. See, start, and join WebEx meetings right from the space. Access partner widgets and applications and customize team spaces with bookmarks, RSS, bulletin boards, calendars, and much more.

Take advantage of affordable business applications and tools that plug in easily to WebEx Connect. Quickly customize the business process with just a few clicks and make it your own. Choose from a library of applications to help manage projects, sales processes, and online training.

What sets WebEx Connect apart is that it’s built on an open platform. This platform gives you the ability to mash up and integrate applications to streamline business processes. You now have the framework to merge collaborative applications with business software in ways previously not possible. So you can bring together processes that make sense and help employees work more effectively. For example, set up a virtual classroom environment by easily mashing up WebEx meeting services with your LMS. Because WebEx Connect automatically authenticates users and their roles—students see only their schedules and assignments, while instructors see performance and attendance information.

Create these types of mash ups for any cross-functional or inter-company process using the WebEx Connect platform. See how the WebEx Connect Platform makes it easy to keep your IT organization nimble with fast application development that builds collaboration into any process.

WebEx Connect authenticates every user. Control usage for individuals and groups—inside and outside your company—or your entire organization. Maintain a uniform, professional image for your organization by assigning screen names based on email addresses. Comprehensive end-to-end encryption, user authentication, and policy management give you the most comprehensive security available, to safeguard intercompany business communications.  

Take advantage of robust policy management to integrate and deliver new applications faster with WebEx Connect. Configure policies once—for individuals, groups, the entire organization—using a WebEx Connect Administrative Space. Apply those policies consistently for any widget or application you integrate into WebEx Connect without duplicating efforts.

Security and usage policies can be set at the domain level and for individual users or groups. Settings for VoIP, video, desktop share, and file transfer capabilities as well as premium service usage and virus scanning let you enforce corporate policies easily.

Role-based usage policies let you easily control who can do what. Add, delete or update user information individually or in batch mode. Streamline screen name and password administration by using Active Directory synchronization.

Chat instantly with anyone in your contact list or look up a colleague in the directory. Review a business card to get office or mobile phone numbers.

Add contacts directly from Microsoft Outlook or an AIM buddy list. View, add, and cancel appointments booked in your Outlook calendar—from within WebEx Connect.

Use a portfolio of communication tools that include encrypted one-to-one or group IM, video, and audio conferences. See who’s online and available with integrated presence notification.

Demonstrate your point by easily moving from text chat to voice to an online meeting. Add new participants to your meeting using drag-and-drop, merge two chat sessions into one, and use your Outlook address book to add new contacts to your list. Get instant one-to-one desktop share, with the ability to pass control between participants and their desktops.

Or, use your WebEx host account to launch WebEx meetings. Add your host account information into WebEx Connect, and schedule and attend WebEx meetings without having to remember a meeting site, meeting ID, or password.

Take advantage of centralized Team Spaces to manage virtual teams and projects. Use all the communication tools available in IM sessions within any space, including persistent chat, PC-to-PC conferences, and WebEx meetings. Each space is tabbed, so it’s easy to find files, discussions, calendar, or a bulletin board.

Get an overview of space activity from the Personal Dashboard.
See all the activity in your world at-a-glance. Get a consolidated view of updates to any of your spaces. Populate your dashboard with application widgets that provide critical business functionality.

Eliminate back-and-forth email with Persistent Chat.
Start a persistent discussion about a document or a topic, and the entire group can participate. Refer to a discussion within a space to see exactly what was said on any given topic.

Share documents with space members—inside and outside your company.
See who owns the file, when it was created, and when it was last modified.  Attach discussion threads to documents, and eliminate back-and-forth email

Extend productivity with integrated business applications and widgets.
Get more out of WebEx Connect by integrating leading applications and tools within your spaces. The Business Application Library includes a variety of standard and third-party applications and widgets that include bookmarks, RSS, bulletin boards, calendars, and much more. Or write your own widgets.