Slingshot
E-mail Attachment Management Solution for the Enterprise
CFI Slingshot is a revolutionary new product that solves the major challenges associated with e-mail attachments – size, space, and bandwidth. Users can conveniently send files of any size to anyone with complete convenience. Slingshot is fully integrated with Microsoft Outlook and provides a parallel conduit for delivering e-mail attachments.
There are absolutely no file-size limitations, so you can send what you want. Imagine e-mailing a 2GB file to anyone in your office. Now you can.
Seamless Integration with Microsoft Outlook, Works Under the Covers
The Slingshot application is seamless and efficient – it works under the covers so users don't even know it's there. They send and receive e-mails using the regular Outlook interface – with Slingshot handling attachments in the background. You'll improve your company's overall productivity and enable users to focus on their business issues – not IT bottlenecks or bulging mailboxes.
Slingshot is also completely configurable. You can use it to handle all e-mail attachments in your organization – or set it to handle only files of a certain size (e.g., larger than 3 MB). Plus it interfaces fully with your archive system, enabling you to automatically archive e-mail attachments.
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Size
File sizes have gotten significantly larger over the last several years, and will continue to grow. This is a simple fact. It causes major issues with e-mail system performance and forces e-mail administrators to impose restrictive limits on users and their mailboxes. Slingshot eliminates this problem completely so that business users are no longer held ransom to file-size limitations. Because Slingshot handles files of any size, it becomes your organization's natural tool for user-to-user file exchange.
Storage
The rapid growth in the size of message stores has resulted in a number of problems for e-mail administrators. This negatively impacts the mail-store. When the mail store grows, the performance of the e-mail server suffers causing backup and restore times to increase exponentially. With e-mail attachments being offloaded to Slingshot, you are able to significantly reduce the size of your mail store – reducing the time backup and restores take, and improving the overall performance of the e-mail server.
Bandwidth
More than 80% of the throughput in a typical corporate e-mail scenario is because of attachments. This can be a huge bandwidth drain. As attachments grow in size, the problem is becoming exacerbated. By redirecting attachments to the Slingshot server, a company can save significantly on bandwidth.
Ease-of-Use
CFI Slingshot has been designed to be easy and intuitive to use. It integrates fully with the e-mail system so that attachments are automatically rerouted to the end user. A Microsoft Outlook agent is installed once and works under the covers. End users send and receive in the usual manner and have no idea that anything different is happening under the covers.
Outlook Client System Support
Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007
Server Requirements
OS – Windows, Linux, UNIX, Java 1.42 or above
J2EE Server – TomCat or WebSphere
Database – Any of the following: My SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2
