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Thinking about deploying group chat in your company? Here are six questions that IT professionals must consider to get it right.
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Do you need your own server or a hosted service?
How many different rooms or discussions do you want to host? Make sure your system won’t run out of gas when it becomes popular.
What happens when you aren’t in the room? How the chat products archive and search on previous conversations is critical.
How does your chat software populate its directory structure and interact with your existing Active Directory or LDAP servers?
Do you want to interoperate with public IM systems such as AOL or MSN? Can your system create rooms on the fly from one-on-one conversations?
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