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Thomson Reuters Offers Instant Messaging as a Corporate Tool

Reuters Messaging Interchange launches a single-link and multi-vendor Enterprise Instant Messaging hub in collaboration with Cisco, IBM and Microsoft

Thomson Reuters has launched its Reuters Messaging (RM) Interchange, which allows Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) users to connect and communicate with colleagues and counterparts by using one link - regardless of corporate or technology boundaries, as with email or telephone interaction. RM Interchange is the a global instant messaging hub that connects Thomson Reuters RM with the leading EIM systems - Cisco's Jabber XCP, IBM Lotus' Sametime and Microsoft's LCS/OCS. Users of these systems, can now connect with over 5,000 external organizations and add their business contacts to a global external community.

RM Interchange enables businesses worldwide to federate without the need to establish individual links between them. To interconnect hundreds or thousands of different instant messaging customers can be a time consuming venture for an organisation's IT department. With the RM Interchange service, businesses can reach over IM a multitude of other companies with a single link.

The ability to communicate instantly and to display a presence indicating users' availability to communicate has made IM a hugely successful communication tool. RM Interchange offers carrier-grade connectivity for IM across the corporate community, delivering a secure hub for businesses across all sectors, including finance, legal and healthcare. Customers connecting to RM Interchange are also automatically connected to the Reuters Messaging community including over 130,000 end-users in 5,000 firms worldwide, and will be listed on the inter-company community directory, enabling users to quickly find counterparts.

"The sharing of accurate and timely market information is never more vital than at times of heightened economic volatility. Over the last few years IM has matured and become the nerve system of many financial institutions to conduct business decisions, progressively replacing email. However, corporate IM deployments have not yet fully used their potential to enable their users to reach their counterparts and customers in other organizations," said David Gurle, global head of collaboration services at Thomson Reuters, in a press release.

"This has now been addressed with the launch of RM Interchange. Users across the enterprise will now benefit not only from instant communication with colleagues and external contacts but from the safety of comprehensive security and compliance functionality, therefore truly tapping the full potential of IM within the corporate domain," Gurle added.

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