Description
ArticleDescription
Messaging client software includes applications that run on workstations and enable peer-to-peer, asynchronous communications.
Tactical
- 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
Retirement
- Meeting Maker
- Microsoft Exchange Client
- Novell GroupWise (NLM)
- UNIX/Linux (Pine, Elm, etc.)
- Eudora 7.x (IMAP Only)
Containment
- POP-based Email
- Microsoft Outlook 2003
Baseline
- 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
- 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
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