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InfoPoint™ 2.0 for SharePoint

InfoPoint™ is an out-of-the-box SharePoint add-on that provides a cost-effective "information notification service" for your organization to communicate with its students, parents, and community, by allowing them to subscribe to important information from your organization.

 

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  • Administrators, teachers, parents, and student groups can use InfoPoint to communicate about classes, after school activities, fundraising, and volunteer work.
  • Municipal governments and school district offices can use InfoPoint to communicate meeting information,  announcements and news, budget updates, emergency notices, and employment opportunities.

Features

Self Service Subscription
  • Anyone can easily subscribe to one or more mailing lists via the Web.
  • Secure - each subscription request is confirmed via email.
  • Each subscriber receives a secure personal key to manage their account, so they don't have to remember a password.
  • Every email sent to subscribers has an "unsubscribe" link for removal from the mailing list.
Intuitive Interface for Working with Messages
  • Friendly editor for composing messages.
  • Easily choose which lists to send a message to.
List Administration
  • Create mailing list categories to organize and classify lists.
  • Easily create as many new mailing lists as needed.
  • Each mailing list can have one or more "contributor" accounts.
  • Mark mailing list for default emergency announcements.
  • Easily move all subscribers from one list into another list.
  • View reports of subscribers and their emails address for each mailing list.
  • Manually remove users if needed.
  • Fully integrated with Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
  • Use AD to grant specific permissions to contribute to the mailing list.

Screen Shots

Send Email

Send email messages using a Rich Text Editor.
Links and images can be included to external content.

recipients

List contributors can easily select what list to send a message to.
Only lists which a list contributor has access to will appear.

list

List managers can easily move all subscribers from one list to another list.

subscription

Subscribers can be manually removed, if needed.
(Names and e-mail addresses above have been obscured to preserve confidentiality.)

mailing list

Mailing lists can be easily created and modified.

categories

Mailing list categories, which are used to group mailing lists,
can be easily created and modified.

SharePoint List

All lists are stored in a SharePoint List.

InfoPoint 2.0 for SharePoint - Perpetual License

InfoPoint is licensed on a per “Web Front-end server” basis and includes unlimited:

  • Mailing Lists
  • Contributors
  • Subscribers

Perpetual License Fee – a “non-renewing” license for the current list price of $875 per Web Front-end server of the SharePoint Farm hosting the InfoPoint application.

  • Minor releases are included with each perpetual license.
  • Access to new major releases of InfoPoint are available by purchasing a new license of the new release at the then current release price.
  • Telephone/Email technical support is available at a rate of $175 per incident.

* Note: A minor release is defined as a "point" release, e.g. InfoPoint 2.x (were "x" is 01 to 99) and is intended to repair any minor anomalies that might exist in the major release.


System Requirements

The following are the minimum server requirements:

  • Dual-processor computer with 1 gigabyte (GB) of available memory (2 GB is recommended) and a clock speed of 2.5 gigahertz (GHz)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008, all editions
  • One of the following operating systems:
    • Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
    • Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
  • Internet Information Services (IIS) in IIS 6.0
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007 (MOSS) or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3
  • 300 megabytes (MB) of available disk space
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or greater for advanced administration features.

The following are the minimum requirements for mailing list contributors:

  • One of the following operating systems:
    • Microsoft Windows® XP
    • Microsoft Windows Vista
  • 256 MB of available memory
  • 10 MB of available disk space