Itteco Magic

I am excited to start blogging about Itteco Magic with this post about our built-in instant messaging. Itteco Magic is the blog discovering all sorts of cool features of Itteco platform.

So, instant messaging, eh? With today’s project teams being so distributed, IM is one of these features you can’t really leave without.

Well, we have the answer. Instead of forcing you to refuge to third party IMs, which means hassle on adding and synchronizing your contacts, we give you the built-in IM, which automatically sync’s your contact list with your friends and project peers. Here is what you got so far:

• Instant messaging based on XMPP protocol. Same login and password as you use for all Itteco components.
• You may either choose any available 3rd party desktop clients, or stick to our feature-rich web client.
• We will sync your friends and peers into your contact list so you don’t have to worry about it.
• Group chat rooms for each of the projects.

Pretty cool, eh?

Here is how the web chat looks like (look for it at the bottom panel of any page):

You can chat, see who is online, have multiple chat windows open, resize, move any window around, change your status, etc. etc. And it all will be sync’ed between as many browser windows as you have open. So, wherever you go on Itteco sites – the chat goes with you (yes, we are working so that you may opt-out of it if you use desktop chat client).

In addition, – and here is the pure magic – the chat hooks are integrated throughout the web UI. If you see the user’s name – you may roll over and start chat with him without opening your contacts list. Like this:

Or, if you see the mention of the project, – same story – roll over and click to jump into group chat:

Check it out and happy chatting!