Businesses can brand Omniprise and easily deploy it to remote partners in global enterprises. Both versions offer similar real-time collaboration features routed through central servers. Omniprise lets you segregate business associates into categories, thus eliminating the task of sorting through buddy lists to find those associated with a project. You can also set up group-specific shared folders to exchange files.
Administrators can control group membership and restrict files shared on the service.
Shared files can reside on the central servers, as with TeamSpace , or on your local hard drive. But if you're off-line, the local shared files are inaccessible to others. Like Groove , Omniprise can be tied into back-end systems. As with TeamSpace and Groove, an invitation mechanism lets you recruit users via an e-mail attachment, and the installer prepopulates group membership settings and contact lists. Like AIM and MSN Messenger, Omniprise lets you see which of your contacts are online, but the program also indicates whether each contact is connected to a PC, PDA, or WAP-enabled phone.