Ozeki Chat - Business Edition

Who is it for

Recommended for businesses and organizatinos where productivity and automation is important.

IT knowledge is needed

To use Ozeki Chat business edition, some IT knowledge is essential regarding software installation, configuration and system maintenance, as the users of this edition cannot rely on Ozeki engineers for technical support and assistance. Access to technical assistance and support can be requested after upgrading to Ozeki Chat Enterprise edition.

What does Ozeki Chat Business Edition offer

  • Unlimited users
  • Unlimited contacts
  • Unlimited chat groups
  • Voice/video calls
  • Self hosted server
  • UDP push notifications
  • Apple push notifications
  • Android push notifications
  • Chat bots
  • API access
  • Productivity booster features

What is not offered

Hosting options

Depending on your preference, Ozeki Chat Business Edition can be hosted on Ozeki servers in the Ozeki Data Center, or if you wish to setup an on-permises system, you can install your chat server on a Windows or on a Linux server. On-premises installations are popuplar when keeping all you data in house is essential, and for air-gapped systems where Internet access is not an option.

Regardless of the hosting option you choose, you will have a private chat system, where you can create user accounts manually or automatically by setting up an authentiation provider to authenticate users. For user authentication you can use Microsoft Active directory, LDAP, SQL, HTTP and other methods.

Once your chat server is setup and ready to use, you can send out invitations in E-mail to your users with links they can use to download the chat clients. Your users can connect from your LAN or through the Internet (if allowed) to your chat server. They can use a webbrowser or an installed Ozeki Chat Client software to communicate with each other through this great chat system.

What is included in Ozeki Chat Business Edition

You can install and use the Ozeki chat server software on one or more computers

Ozeki Chat Server Sotware

You can install and use the Ozeki chat client software on any number of devices

Ozeki Chat client for Browsers
Ozeki Chat client for Windows
Ozeki Chat client for Android
Ozeki Chat client for iPhone
Ozeki Chat client for MacOS

Services included with your subscription

Ozeki Chat Business Edition customers can take full use of the Ozeki server infrastructure, to host their chat system, or to use supplimentary services, such as push notifications or audio/video call bridging.

  • Your chat servers can be hosted in the Ozeki data center
  • Ozeki e-mail forwarding can be used to send out invitation e-mails
  • Ozeki push notification forwarding can be used to reach iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets even if they are not connected to the chat server
  • Ozeki proxy services can be used to provide chat service to your clients without opening ports on your firewall
  • Ozeki STUN and TURN services provided by Ozeki can be used to setup voice and video calls reliably between chat clients
  • Ozeki secure backup/restore service can be used to keep your data safe in case of hardware failures

What is not included in Ozeki Chat Business Edition

When you use the Ozeki Chat Businesss Edition, you can manage your system using interfaces offered by the software, however you don't have access to Ozeki engineers to ask technical questions, to get remote assistance to create configurations or to solve problems. You must setup and maintain your own infrastructre, configure your own backups and perform all the required configurations yourself. Ozeki Chat Business Edition customers are not eligible for Ozeki Technical Support.

Technical limitations

Ozeki Chat Businesss Edition customers miss out on the option of maintaining a high availability, multi server system with hardware redundancy. They cannot customize the Ozeki chat user interface, and they cannot replace the Ozeki logo or modify the Ozeki chat product name in their system. These features are available for Ozeki Chat Enterprise Edition customers.

Legal limitations

When you use Ozeki Chat Businesss Edition, we ask you to comply with the following legal and usage limitations. To remove some of these limitations, you may consider upgrading your licnse to Ozeki Chat Enterprise Edition. Ozeki Chat Business Edition customers are not allowed to replace the Ozeki logo or change the product's name or appearance. Usage stats and diagnostic information uploads to Ozeki should not be disabled. This anonymized information is used by Ozeki for statistical purposes, and to indentify which features have bugs and which features bneed to be improved.

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