The Business Edition meets all functional and technical requirements of today's modern enterprises. It provides a common platform for all people in an organization to manage projects and contacts, share documents and emails, administer document templates and coordinate unified communication and collaboration.

It connects existing business applications, email systems, telephony (incl. VoIP) and documents based on any office applications.

Both in-house (LAN) and internet installations provide a maximal security and perfomance. Their multi-tenant SOA application server architecture is one of the most flexible and reliable technologies available on the market.

SOKRATES® Communicator Business Edition is designed to assist you personally in your daily work with communication and various applications, but it equally helps you to collaborate with your team and the rest of your enterprise. If you work in one big office, if you are at home, or if your team is spread out all over the world: SOKRATES® Communicator  connects you! It assures the quality of your working processes on an enterprise level. Make the choice of the perfect architecture for you and your team:

		Hosted Subscription (periodical fees): Only the client is installed locally, the application server and the database are run in the centralized data center of a provider. All you have to do is to install a client software which typically lasts less then three minutes, and to start! You do not need to maintain a complex data center to manage your business data.		In-House Data Center (one-time license or periodical fees): The clients are started locally, but the application server and the database are run on servers in your own data center having access to local software systems. This service-oriented architecture (SOA) fits perfectly into your existing IT infrastructure and can be tightly coupled to your existing business software systems (ERP, PSA...).

After installing SOKRATES® Communicator it links your world of communication, applications and collaboration together:

• Contact Management: This fully featured module offers functionality you would only expect from expensive high-end CRM packages. Import contacts from Microsoft® Outlook® or Skype® easily and quickly!
• Project Management: Define the projects you are working on in a hierarchical tree and keep the overview. This in-built project management functionality is not intended to replace full-size project management solutions (which you could connect optionally), but to structure your work and to assign all types of project-oriented information: documents, emails, contacts, phone call protocols etc.
• Emails: The option "Emails for Outlook®" offers a natural interface to Microsoft® Outlook®. With Communicator, you can write emails directly from a selected contact or project using an unlimited number of email templates you can create. Incoming emails are automatically assigned to contacts and projects. Answer or forward emails directly from Communicator, let attachments automatically be zipped and attached, create tasks for emails to be answered and much more... Currently, we support Microsoft® Outlook® , other email clients will follow.
• Phone Calls: Register times and protocols of phone calls made and assign them to contacts and projects for future reference. The option "VoIP for Skype®" integrates Skype into the Communicator's user interface: Call a contact with one mouse-click only, get his record automatically opened when he calls you, schedule calls to do, keep an overview of missed phone calls, schedule emails, documents and other phone calls while having a call, transfer a call to another person (ideal for assistants...) and much more...
• Documents: Opting also for the module "Documents & Applications" the system registers applications you use for your specific documents: Your text processing system, your spreadsheet, your favourite browser, your PDF-viewer etc. Create document templates for your applications and register them within Communicator. From now on, you can set up, open and retrieve documents of any type directly in the contacts or projects defined in Communicator: See all documents assigned to a project and/or contacts, get lists of contact/project-related documents, create lists of weblinks and store them in "knowledge base" projects, ... Documents can be stored on the SOKRATES® Application Server which makes them available worldwide over the internet: Communicator web-enables actually your local applications! 
• Tasks: Schedule tasks for creating documents, writing emails, making phone calls etc. and delegate those tasks to your team members.
• Synchronization: Connect your existing business systems to SOKRATES® Communicator .

If you want to control and administer your and your company's contacts, projects, tasks, documents and communication, SOKRATES® Communicator Business Edition is the right package for you!

System Requirements: Microsoft® Windows® Vista, XP or 2000, 100MB free disk space, screen resolution 1280x1024 recommended.