Corporate Sanity rollout announced at retail systems, E-mail World.WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 1996-- Enterprise Solutions Ltd. announced the rollout of Corporate Sanity, a suite of directory-enabling tools and utilities to address the needs of IT professionals that manage information in distributed client/server environments. Based on the X.500 directory protocol, Corporate Sanity offers a defined strategy to unify disparate systems by allowing local users at separate sites to access and use a common, global directory. The first available utility in the suite, Mail Sanity, is a software that resides on the client behind a mail application and seamlessly translates MAPI (Mail API) A programming interface from Microsoft that enables a client application to send to and receive mail from Exchange Server or a Microsoft Mail (MS Mail) messaging system. Microsoft applications such as Outlook, the Exchange client and Microsoft Schedule use MAPI. to LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. , allowing users to access an X.500 or X.500-compliant directory that may be housed on a corporate server, intranet, or on the Internet. For Instance, users of the Microsoft Exchange client Microsoft Exchange Client was a multi-purpose messaging product useful for managing e-mail. It was the native and bundled client for Microsoft Exchange Server up to version 5.0, later superseded by Microsoft Outlook. may access an X.500 directory by selecting the directory name from a pull-down menu Also called a "drop-down menu" or "pop-down menu," the common type of menu used with a graphical user interface (GUI). Clicking a menu title causes the menu items to appear to drop down from that position and be displayed. . Once in the global directory, users may perform queries, look up addresses and view properties associated with each name or address. Names may be added from the X.500 corporate directory to a local user's directory with a simple click of the mouse. Mail Sanity will be demonstrated in Booth No. 1923 at E-Mail World, June 11-13, in Chicago; and in Booth No. 229 at the Retail Systems show, June 11-13, in Dallas. Other products planned for the Corporate Sanity line include a Directory Server, available on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. platforms; a Directory Viewer; a System Administrator to administer all of the data and directory system operations; a Directory Loader A program routine that copies a program into memory for execution. to load and migrate data into or out of the directory; and the Data Administrator or Departmental Administrator, to allow specific departments to administer their own data. Several add-on products for Corporate Sanity are planned to increase the versatility of X.500 directories, including Corporate Sanity Secure Access, with encrypted password, public key/private key, smart card, and Fortezza support, and Web Sanity, an LDAP to HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. converter that will allow directory data to be pulled into an HTML document. The Corporate Sanity line of software tools and utilities will become available in late 1996 with the shipping of Mail Sanity, and continue to roll out through 1997. Enterprise Solutions Ltd.'s corporate headquarters is located at 31416 Agoura Road, Suite 180, Westlake Village, Calif. 91361; phone 818/597-8943; fax 818/597-9621. CONTACT: Enterprise Solutions Ltd., Westlake Village Holly Forsberg, 310/442-9778 |
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