ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA: Bitrix, Inc., a provider inbusiness communications solutions, recently announced the availability of Bitrix Intranet Portal 9.0, an Enterprise 2.0 solution for small and medium-sized businesses.

The portal would provide a full range of business-oriented communication opportunities with blogs, forums and instant messaging features, which are reinforced with video conferencing and e-mail processing, said a press release.

Customers can create a number of virtual video meeting rooms according to their license terms, make online room reservations with real-time status display in the public calendar and initiate either an instant peer-to-peer video call or a click-away video conference for up to six participants. This feature is available both for internal and external communications and requires a browser plug-in.

A process can be initiated with regards to a document or a routine activity, owners can modify the process at any stage of its implementation, users can receive assignments directly to their calendars and tasks as well as receive notifications via instant messenger or e-mail. The business processes visual constructor received new functions like issue escalation and decision-making timeout, while the product is now equipped with additional templates for typical activity like business trips and vacation request handling.

The Portal has an integrated PRO+PRO security framework to prevent malicious code distribution to end users and provides both detection and disinfection capabilities for automatic purging of infected code.

The product enables automatic visual representation of organization's structure. The user interface was endowed with extended tooltips when browsing employee profiles. The workgroups appearance has changed, offering intuitive navigation and customization with support of tags and tag-based search.