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Showing posts with label Outlook. Show all posts
Xobni, a Plugin for outlook which saves you time finding email, conversations, contact info & attachments and show you relevant information. It extract all information like Contact information, Profile Picture, Company info, Job titles and organized it automatically. Xobni also searches the web for information about your contact in Facebok, Linkedin, Hoover and bring it to your Outlook surface. Finding attachments and emails is much easily by using this free product.


After Launching the Xobni Plus, pro version of Xobni. Now they introduces Xobni for Enterprise which integration with Salesforce.com’s sales application and Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration technology.

Xobni Enterprise gives businesses of all sizes the ability to deploy and manage Xobni to employees and create enterprise extensions to increase productivity and efficiency. Through a new easy-to-use web interface, Xobni Enterprise. Here company’s IT managers can manage all the company user accounts and add custom extensions for targeted groups of users. Distribute and deployment is manageable through Xobni central administration. It integrates your user's corporate profile into the Xobni contact card through LDAP. Even Enterprise user can remove the features such as Skype integration and the Twitter and Facebook extensions so company can control which Xobni features Enterprise users can access.

Besides SalesForce.com and Microsoft SharePoint extensions, Xobni Enterprise customers can create their own custom extensions to display company news and information. They can also develop extensions that integrate with CRM, corporate portals and nearly any business application or web service.

According to Company, plug-in has been downloaded more than 3 million times, and is already used by employees in 80 percent of the Fortune 500 list of companies and Xobni also working on a mobile product for Blackberry.
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Google Apps is a an web suite for enterprise use and now a days many company deploying Google's clouds system but as a enterprise what can be a difficult moment? Now a days all things come in form of web apps but in email still many user preferred to use email programs like Outlook and Thunderbird. Outlook is a first choice for many users which is come with a host of features and plugins. of course you can use IMAP with your Outlook but now Google Apps come up with a Sync product for Microsoft Outlook.

Sync for Microsoft Outlook is a plug in that allows Microsoft Outlook to run on the Google Apps backend rather than Microsoft Exchange Server. End users can continue to use the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface for email, calendar and contacts as they transition to Google Apps.It enables Outlook users to connect to Google Apps for business email, contacts and calendar. And they can always use Gmail's web interface to access their information when they're not on their work computer.

Over the last year, Google had a razor sharp focus on making it as easy as possible for businesses to deploy Google Apps. In the last few months you've seen some of the new development in Google Apps like, from offline Gmail to user directory synchronization to full Blackberry interoperability.

Loyal Outlook user can view there Google Apps email in the femileare interface and see business email, contacts and calendar & also use popular plug ins like xobni and able to view batter email management and search with in outlook.

Key features
  • Email, calendar, and contacts synchronization. For email, the plug-in uses the offline Gmail protocol, which is much faster than IMAP or other methods.
  • Free/Busy lookup and Global Address List functionality, which makes it easy to schedule meetings with your colleagues, regardless of whether they use Outlook's calendar or Google Calendar.
  • A simple, two-click data migration tool which allows employees to easily copy existing data from Exchange or Outlook into Google Apps.




Few days ago Facebook announce that they extended their API to allow profile streams to be accessed via the API and some developers like plaxo already built some applications which is using the new API. Xobni also do the same thing.

Xobni, a very useful plug in for Outlook has pusheda new Xobni Facebook extension. Xobni extensions show you information from Facebook, LinkedIn, Hoovers as well as stats from your email history and contacts info.Skype intigration is also there.

Via New Extension user can see the Facebook data from your contacts. The data in the Facebook extension in your Xobni sidebar is even more relevant and more real time. You will see recent status updates, pictures, wall posts, and other information that appears on your friend’s Facebook profiles. You will also be able to comment and “like” these items from within Xobni.

I really like to see what are my contacts upto on Facebook and Xobni does the job very well.

To see the new extension just clear the cache in Internet Explorer. You can do that by following these steps:

Open Internet Explorer > Go to "Tools"> "Internet Options" > "General Tab" > Click “Delete..” under “Browsing History” > Click “Delete all…" > Close IE > Restart Outlook & Enjoy ! ! or download fresh copy from here
Outlook plug in Xobni is out of the Beta label and version 1.7 is now available to everyone. In this version there are no new features but following significant improvements like optimize speed, Xobni Profiles now load faster, performance controls like Users can control how often and how much data Xobni indexes & Users can control when Xobni is running. It will affective for users with large inboxes

Xobni team also fixed multiple software incompatibilities with following software:
  • Microsoft Business Contact Manager
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM
  • Avaya voice email products (V5 and above)
  • Blackberry w/ Blackberry Desktop Software
  • MobileMe
  • Microsoft Office Communicator
  • McAfee Enterprise VirusScan (V8.5 and above)
  • Cisco Security Agent (V6.0 and above)
Xobni recently integrate its core product with leading content providers including LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Skype and Hoover’s

If you are not currently using Xobni, download version 1.7 for free.

Existing Xobni users can update to the newest version by downloading the new installer here

Early January Xobni completed a $7 million Series B led by Cisco Systems now BlackBerry Partners Fund has also joined Series B, the now total investment round is increasing over $10 million.

No doubt that Xobni gonna extend its core product to new platforms & Because of this strategic investment its a win win opportunity for Xobni & may be they able to use existing customer base of BlackBerry and Cisco to offer its premium service which will be launch later in this summer.