EPAZ BoxesOS software provides:
Web Portal Component
BoxesOS Web Portal Component is a gateway to all of an organization’s online services and information resources. The Web Portal Component provides a Personal Information System, which refers to the user's entire online environment - the user’s resources, information, graphics, color, layout, and organization. All resources are customizable. The Web Portal Component simplifies organizations’ ability to create and deploy custom web applications with a common graphic user interface and connectivity to the back-end systems.
Administrative Content Management
BoxesOS Content Management Component provides an organization with enterprise level tools for creating, managing, organizing, archiving and sharing content. Content can be delivered in many forms such as web pages, emails, polls, documents, web forms, rich site summaries (“RSS”), and “hot news.” The Content Management Component enables staff members with little technical skills to create web pages and processes without having any programming skills.
Work Hub
Work Hub provides a host of applications that can empower an organization to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Work Hub helps to manage work flow throughout an organization. Senior management is able to view a document for approval before it is sent out to a client. A company can view all projects of the enterprise in one page. Some of the applications in Work Hub are products/services management, project management, invoice management, time management, content management and sales management. Work Hub has clear graphic charts with detail reports on many areas.
Central Repository
BoxesOS Central Knowledge Repository is a collection and indexing of shareable content. Central Knowledge Repository installs a server index application on the Windows 2003 platform to identify an organization’s current knowledge assets. All knowledge assets will be imported into a storage device. The server index application will import the knowledge assets into a temporary folder before moving into a main folder. The server index application will prompt the organization’s administrators to add detailed information about the knowledge assets into the database by using a web form. These forms will allow the administrators to add custom fields; therefore, allowing the organization to add custom information to the database in the present and at a future date. The organization would be able to group their knowledge objects by program, course, subject, topic, users, content, or date.
ViewPoint
ViewPoint is BoxesOS central communication hub, calendaring, contact management and scheduling system. ViewPoint works with or can be used as an alternative to MS Outlook/MS Exchange Server. The web applications provide the institution with an extensive range of options including communication system email web client and an email server. Email applications provide features you would find on popular web-based e-mail providers. ViewPoint provides robust threaded discussion boards and a “chatting” environment. ViewPoint provides each user with a personal calendar, which notifies users of scheduling conflicts and appointments priorities. ViewPoint makes it easy to create group calendars and public calendars. With the ViewPoint scheduling system users are able to schedule group meetings together. The scheduling system will view each user's calendar to see the next available time and date the group can meet.
Learning Management System
BoxesOS My Courses is an extensive application for learning management, and e-learning. My Courses is an effective means for managing traditional courses, distance learning courses, and self-paced courses. My Courses is a powerful communication tool that can be effectively used by students, instructors, employees and corporate trainers to make information flow easily, clearly and faster. My Courses provides a robust grade book, powerful authoring content tools, easy to use drop box, sharable folders, wide-ranging course calendar and many more features all designed to provide customization to key stakeholders. Organizations will be able to train their employees on systems using My Courses self-paced settings, as well as test candidates on their skill sets before they are hired.
Single Sign-on
Single Sign-on provides organizations the ability to log into multiple systems with a single unique username and password. The username and password authenticates the user’s credentials to make sure the person who is accessing the data is authorized to. BoxesOS uses Microsoft Active Directory Identity Management to accomplish single sign on. Microsoft Active Directory allows institutions to centrally manage and share user information. Active Directory also acts as the single sign on point for bringing systems and applications together. BoxesOS user management integrates with Active Directory.
Pathways Real-time Integration
Epazz Pathways is an integration suite enabling real-time connectivity with ERP and Legacy systems. Pathways integration suite allows organizations to retrieve data from ERPs and write data back to ERPs in real-time.
