FCCC Gold is an excellent solution for schools and districts that find simple e-mail software too limiting and systems such as Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes too complex to manage.
Most messaging systems have a single storage area and use a single access method.
For example, if you have a telephone messaging system, you probably have a telephone mailbox. If you use many such systems, you have to maintain multiple mailboxes, learn to use multiple clients, and constantly keep monitoring all these access points. The disadvantage is that you spend a lot of your time switching from system to system and that you cannot easily send a message received on one system to someone using another. In a Unified Messaging system, you have a single mailbox and can use a single access method to retrieve your messages, whether they originated from a fax machine, a computer, a telephone or a wireless device. This also means you can easily transfer messages to users of any system.