The platform supports Mac OS X 10.4 and later for the first time, alongside Windows and Linux.
caloa is a client-server framework for implementing real-time collaboration services, based on C++ and assembly language. Its service components can be combined freely to create customised collaboration applications. Standardised interfaces allow the services to be integrated into existing communications applications, new collaboration solutions or workflows such as help desks.
Developer R. Schmidt played a central role in its implementation: “caloa is a modular system that allows a wide range of real-time collaboration functions, both proprietary functions and those already established in the European market, to be combined quickly and flexibly into new solutions.”
The various components, including voice services, file-synchronisation services, multimedia recording and remote control, have also been optimised. Mac OS X compatibility allows caloa to describe itself as cross-platform.
pcvisit executive board member Helge Betzinger describes the platform’s potential: “If a partner wants to integrate specific, precisely tailored real-time collaboration services into its applications and thereby implement an optimised solution, there is hardly any way around the successful ‘caloa inside’ formula.”
Solutions based on caloa support one-to-one connections as well as broadcast applications for several thousand users. Practical applications include e-learning, online sales, support and remote maintenance. pcvisit partner vitero and its virtual team room demonstrate its use across different communication environments.
vitero GmbH offers software for running virtual meetings and training sessions under realistic conditions.
The company covers communication formats ranging from one-to-one conversations through group meetings and training to focused many-to-many communication with large numbers of participants.
The vitero software currently consists of twelve modules that can be assembled individually.
