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Description

Messaging client software includes applications that run on workstations and enable peer-to-peer, asynchronous communications.

Tactical

(0-2 years)

  • BlackBerry Messenger and PIN to PIN
  • Mac OS X Mail Client
  • Microsoft Entourage 
  • Microsoft Outlook 2007
  • RSS Feeds 
  • Web browser-based clients
  • Web browser-enabled discussion threads 

Strategic

(2-5 years)

  • TBD

 

 

 

Retirement

(To be eliminated)

  • Meeting Maker
  • Microsoft Exchange Client
  • Novell GroupWise (NLM)  
  • UNIX/Linux (Pine, Elm, etc.)
  • Eudora 7.x (IMAP Only)

Containment

(No new development

  • POP-based Email
  • Microsoft Outlook 2003

Baseline

(Today)

  • BlackBerry Messenger and PIN to PIN 
  • Eudora 7.x (IMAP Only)
  • IMAP-based email clients 
  • Mac OS X Mail Client 
  • Meeting Maker
  • Microsoft Entourage
  • Microsoft Outlook 2003 or newer 
  • Microsoft Exchange Client
  • Novell GroupWise (NLM)
  • POP-based Email Clients
  • RSS Feeds
  • UNIX/Linux (Pine, Elm, etc.)
  • Web browser-enabled clients
  • Web browser-enabled discussion threads

 

 

Emerging

(To track)

  • Social networking tools - Facebook, Twitter, and other web-based services
  • Unified Communications Services (all in one email, fax, collaboration, chat, desktop video, voicemail, etc.)

Comments

  • Tactical and strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
  • Some baseline products have been designated retirement and containment. These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected tactical and strategic products
  • NIH Mail is based on the Microsoft Exchange Server model for enterprise email
  • ActiveSync is listed as a product as allowed by NIH Firewall rules.
  • Unified Communications is combining all communications (phone, email, voicemail, fax, etc.) into a single set of services.  This is a growing trend in the IT inducstry.  Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) is a main component of UC and converts phone systems to Internet network-based voice communication systems.  VOIP can be addressed as a standalone service, but is more frequently deployed as the main component in UC.

 

 


    Time Table

    This architecture definition approved on: May 25, 2010

    The next review is scheduled in: TBD