SOKRATES® Communicator

SOKRATES® is built around a core of two tightly coupled base modules: Contacts and Projects. They offer a powerful and complete set of functions to assist you in your everyday communication tasks and in your collaboration with Team Colleagues and your customers: SOKRATES® becomes the control center for all your working processes related to Emails, Phone Calls and Documents.
You decide where the SOKRATES® data is being stored and processed: On your own notebook, hosted on our internet-based multi-tenant application servers, or in your own data center. This makes SOKRATES® one of the most flexible software solutions world-wide!

SOKRATES® is a perfect partner for Microsoft® Outlook® by extending its capabilities by far: Keep track of your and your colleagues' emails for contacts and projects, access your emails worldwide over the internet, automatically "Pack & Send" documents, use unlimited email templates...

With SOKRATES® & Skype® your telephony will really be integrated into your daily work. Calling a contact, receiving, protocolling or scheduling calls is just one click away! Transfer calls to others, initiate phone conferences...: Ready for daily business use!
You even do not have to give up your landline...

Documents: You can web-enable almost any application by registering it in SOKRATES® and manage its documents and templates internet-based or locally: Microsoft® Office®, Open Office® , Adobe® PDF®, Adobe® Photoshop®, Google® Docs & Spreadsheets® and many, many more...
The powerful document storage server not only keeps your documents safe, it also offers revision control, document locking, internet access and many other collaboration functions!

Most of today's applications force you to choose between your local applications or web-based systems. We believe you should be able to pick the best from both worlds: Continue using your favourite word-processor, your favourite email client etc., but make their data and documents accessible from anywhere in the world.

The most natural way for you to find your data is by starting at a contact or project it belongs to: SOKRATES® Communicator is the client software which will enable you to do this. It is running as a real application on your workstation ("Rich Internet Client"). This technology has many advantages compared to a browser-based solution: speed, security, browser-independence, drag&drop, powerful user interface and many more. The download and installation is done in less than three minutes (at 1 MBit/s bandwith).

The "brain" of the system is the SOKRATES® Application Server. It communicates with the client using secured internet protocols. Besides of providing all kind of home and business functionality and maintaining your contact and project data centrally, it stores documents and data from your (and your colleagues') local applications: emails, text documents, URLs, pictures and much more... Everything is stored in one of several supported standard SQL databases.

You can choose between three different installation types: "Local Computer", "Hosted" or "In-House Data Center".

Keep it simple! If you want to use SOKRATES® alone, at home or if you just want to try it: The quick local installation runs on your notebook and contains everything including the database. You can even work without internet access.
This is the only installation type supported for the PERSONAL EDITION.

If you want a plug-and-play solution, need multi-user support or want access from the internet, the "hosted" installation is right for you and your team or enterprise: Download the SOKRATES® & Communicator client, register and start working! You can share data, emails, contacts etc. immediately.
Your client software will work with a SOKRATES® Application Server hosted by us in a high-performance data center. We use state-of-the-art technology (multi-tenant SaaS Software as a Service architecture) and SSL-secured communication. Fail-over technologies, multi-threading, load-balancing, automated backups and more guarantee a high performance and reliability. You even can synchronize your projects and contacts with other systems installed locally.
Hosting is available for TEAM EDITION and BUSINESS EDITION.

You need access to your data within your LAN and over the internet, but you prefer to keep everything in your own data center? No problem! Just install one or more SOKRATES® Application Servers on your own server.
In-House installation is available for TEAM EDITION and BUSINESS EDITION.