NetLert adds whiteboard and polling features SoftBase Systems has introduced NetLert 2.1, a realtime business communications offering that enhances message management and online collaborative efforts. NetLert 2.1 now offers a whiteboard feature, which enables multiple users to work online together on up to 100 slides per session. The whiteboard can be used to add annotations to Webpages and to share pages. In addition, the whiteboard slides can be saved, printed, and distributed at the conclusion of a session. With a new polling feature, a manager can poll users about a particular question and supply them with a list of preset answers.
Users can either select an answer or write their own.
Users can alwo determine how to manage alerts when they are offline. The notifications can be saved and sent at the next logon or forwarded to an email account, mobile phone, or pager. Both Java-based applications generate reports that enable users to create personalized templates and styles, import object types, or include charts. These products also now include the JReport Font System, a TrueType administration system that solves font-mapping issues related to Java. It also offers reports with hyperlinks, multicolumn reports, and HTML output.