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| Many of the features provided by the FACSys Desktop are listed below.
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| · | Intuitive interface for organizing and managing personal fax resources
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| The FACSys Desktop displays all fax resources in a hierarchical list or a "tree view." At a glance, you have access to your inbound faxes, outbound faxes, fax phonebooks and fax cover pages. Using the FACSys Desktop, you also customize your fax environment, while managing your personal fax messages.
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| · | Many ways to prepare outbound faxes
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| FACSys supports many methods of outbound faxing. You can send faxes from the FACSys Desktop window, your e-mail application, or a Windows application. You can also use a DDE command interface, embedded codes, the Internet, or a simple drag and drop procedure to send faxes.
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| · | FACSys phonebooks and ODBC database links
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| FACSys users are responsible for managing their own personal FACSys phonebook. Users with the appropriate rights can also create and manage shared or system phonebooks. Adding containers or sub-folders to the phonebook gives you the ability to organize the unlimited number of phonebook entries and groups. You can also establish direct links to external ODBC data sources.
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| · | Email application and gateway integration
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| FACSys gives you the ability to send and receive faxes using an electronic mail application or gateway service. FACSys supports gateway services for electronic mail systems, network scanners, and electronic voice systems. Current supported gateway services include Lotus cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Mail, Novell GroupWise, Novell MHS SMF 70/71, SAP System R/3, SMTP/POP3, HP Network ScanJet 5, and Microsoft Exchange. Outbound messages are rendered automatically into a fax image format supported by FACSys. Inbound messages are converted into the format specified by each user and display as file attachments in email messages.
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| · | Hold sent faxes at the fax server for preview
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| An option in the New Fax Message window instructs FACSys to hold sent faxes at the fax server, giving you the ability to preview outbound fax messages before transmission takes place. In addition to verifying the rendered fax image, you can check fax destinations and options. The preview feature results in both time and cost savings to your organization.
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| · | Support for many types of file attachments
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| In addition to the rich text formatting of your fax documents and fax cover pages, you can include file attachments in your outbound fax messages. There is no limit to the number of attachments contained within each fax message you create.
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| · | Extensive scheduling and addressing options
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| The FACSys New Fax Message window offers extensive outbound scheduling options. In this easy-to-use window, you define the outbound fax date and time, priority, cover page, fax destinations and optional file attachments. Additional options allow you to select address and recipient information from a wide range of sources, including Outlook contact databases, ODBC data sources, and other MAPI-compliant address books.
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| · | Optional document rendering at the fax server or client workstation
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| FACSys can be instructed to render file attachments at the remote fax server or client workstation. Remote rendering eliminates large processing requirements at your local workstation and gives you the ability to attach any format type support by both FACSys and the Optional Outside In™ Viewer.
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| · | Support for the optional Outside In™ Viewer
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| FACSys provides support for the optional Outside In™ Viewer technology used for rendering document/file formats at the fax server without requiring the native applications to be installed at the fax server. At Outside-In's core is a filtering technology that understands the file formats of more than 200 current and legacy applications, including the most popular word-processor, spreadsheet, database, bitmap, drawing and presentation formats.
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| · | Flexible inbound routing options
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| FACSys Desktop users receive their inbound faxes in the way that best suits their needs. You can choose to receive your faxes as e-mail messages having an attached fax image, printed to a network printer, or forwarded to another fax machine.
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| · | Stargin with FACSys 4.9, you can optionally receive your inbound fax messages as a TIF file, a PDF file (non-text searchable) or both.
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| Regardless of the method by which you receive inbound faxes, your fax files are always listed and accessible from the FACSys Desktop.
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| · | Integrated Cover Page Editor program
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| FACSys is shipped with a Cover Page Editor, giving users with the appropriate rights the ability to create and manage their own custom cover pages. This integrated utility includes the following features: placement of graphics and text objects, inserting embedded codes that are translated by the fax server, saving, importing, exporting and printing. Bitmap images and true-type fonts are also supported.
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| · | Windows authentication option
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| FACSys provides a Windows NT authentication option that affects your FACSys logon and the display of the FACSys Logon dialog box. If you instruct FACSys to authenticate your logon using the name and password you entered to logon to Windows NT, then the FACSys Desktop will display immediately without prompting for logon information.
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| · | Flexible import and export capabilities
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| To take advantage of existing data, FACSys lets you import data and populate phonebooks quickly. Using the import facility, you also define the import file contents and format. In similar dialog boxes, you can export your FACSys phonebook data.
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| · | Simplified re-transmission and fax forwarding
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| FACSys provides for the re-transmission of documents that failed due to no answer, busy line, poor connection, and other non-fatal errors. If a failure occurs, FACSys has the ability to re-dial a destination and continue where it left off. This is a critical feature for organizations that send large fax documents.
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| · | Fax delivery notifications
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| FACSys issues notification messages in response to your send and receive actions. Notifications are issued when faxes are sent successfully, when faxes are sent unsuccessfully, and when faxes are received successfully.
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| · | Billing codes and charge-back capability
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| To track fax activity for billing purposes, FACSys offers several methods of billing code support. Billing codes can be applied to phonebook entries, fax messages, and FACSys user profiles.
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