May, 2009 : Ensim Releases Ensim Unify Service Provider 4.7.0

📅 May 21, 2009 - Offers new features, refinements and improvements for Windows-based hosting.

Ensim Corporation, a provider of change management, user provisioning and access control software, today announced the immediate availability of Ensim Unify Service Provider 4.7.0. The company states that the new version was developed in response to customer requests and incorporates a range of new features aimed at simplifying the day-to-day burden of activating, configuring and managing a service provider's unified communications and collaboration infrastructure.

It further states that its Unify Service Provider Edition enables service providers to centrally create, control and deliver hosted IP and application services. The company claims that the latest version of its Unify Service Provider delivers increased functionality and support for the latest Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) improvements, such as Windows Server 2003 (SP2) and SQL 2005 (SP2), and the Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) version 2.1, 2.2 and MPS bundled with HMC 4.0 and 4.5. It adds that its Unify Service Provider also provisions many additional services like BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BroadSoft BroadWorks that are not available as part of the HMC solution, as well as the ability to add custom services via the Ensim Unify SDK.

The company avers that the key new features available in version 4.7.0 include:

• Application Services - have been updated for the latest versions of Microsoft CRM, SharePoint, Exchange 2007, Office Communication Server (OCS) R2, Remote Desktop Services (RDS) 2008, Fenestrae Messaging Server 2008 and BroadSoft BroadWorks 14
• Mass Notification - enables service providers, resellers and organization administrators to send emails collectively to their child entities
• Bulk user de-provisioning - allows organization administrators to select multiple users and de-provision them collectively as a single task
• Password auto-generation - allows service providers, resellers and the organization administrators to automatically generate passwords for the users being created
• Web Services API Enhancements - includes new capabilities for operations that can be performed at the organization level, reseller level, ISP level, and at these various levels combined

''Ensim is committed to giving our customers the tools that keep them ahead of the curve by supporting the latest applications,'' said Scott Young, Vice President of marketing and product management at Ensim Corporation. ''With the latest version of Ensim Unify Service Provider Edition, service provider customers can focus on delivering their hosted services as opposed to developing them, and are afforded the convenience of deploying these services over any type of infrastructure.''