Bitrix Streamlines Social Intranet Adoption for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

ALEXANDRIA, VA, February 24, 2011 (Press-News.org) Bitrix, Inc., a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, introduces the InfoPace edition of its award-winning flagship product Bitrix Intranet. The edition's affordable pricing ($499), out-of-the-box functionality, easy management and user adoption positions it as an excellent starting point for implementing social collaboration technologies to increase team performance, staff involvement and business transparency.

Bitrix Intranet: InfoPace Edition is a superior performer as an organization's information hub and document sharing platform, ensuring two-way communications with employees. It provides an always-on resource for critical information about adopted values, procedures, structure, news and ongoing activities to personnel, advancing business development and a unified yet evolving vision. Equipped with an integrated e-learning, it also ensures quick on-boarding for new team members. Employee profiles, staff directory and rich social networking features (blogs, forums, wikis, polls) increase awareness and team insight as well as stimulate idea generation and convey valuable feedback to top management and business owners to bolster innovation and rumour control.

InfoPace delivers organizations obvious advantages for improving team performance. It automates routine activities for HR, IT and accounting with standard documents and forms. Full-text morphological search help employees quickly locate relevant content, knowledge and experts across intranet. Automatic notifications keep staff informed of recent activities and announcements. Basic collaboration features such as meeting room booking and a unified absence chart synchronize the office work. Document storage areas for public use, departments, and individual users secure knowledge continuity.

InfoPace works in concert with existing IT infrastructure and integrates with accustomed software. Organizations can import user accounts from multiple AD/LDAP servers, engage single sign-on, and employees can synchronize intranet calendars with Outlook, export data in Excel and leverage online document editing with WebDAV support. The software is wrapped in the industry-leading security framework, has moderate hardware requirements and can be deployed in a virtual environment (such as VMware) to reduce installation and maintenance costs.

Bitrix Intranet: InfoPace Edition imposes no limits on the number of registered intranet users, offering organizations complete scalability and eliminating additional expenses for new team members. Importantly, customers can trial TeamPace and BizPace - the senior editions of the software, by simply enabling a special feature in the administrator console. These other editions deliver more business-critical collaboration features to increase business performance.

"Naturally, InfoPace revolutionizes the intranet market, paving the path for risk-free step-by-step adoption of the more comprehensive social collaboration features available in senior editions of Bitrix Intranet. It clearly stands out among competing solutions with its price, features list and simplicity in installation and management", said Dmitry Valyanov, President of Bitrix, Inc.