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IMified Bot Hosting (beta)

Easily add IM support to your applications on every major network using one simple API.

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Why Should I IM Enable My Applications

According to a 2005 study conducted by AOL, over 70% of internet users use instant messaging with 38% of those users sending as many, if not more IM's than email. The web browser is no longer the sole point of entry to your applications. Instant messaging is immediate, ubiquitous, presence enabled, and mobile ready, making the medium an excellent alternate interface to your applications.

Traditionally, building, managing, and scaling an IM bot is a complex and costly endeavor. Requirements for additional capacity, reliability, and redundancy scale continually as your IM bots grow. Our solution greatly minimizes the complexity and costs required to IM enable your applications. Below are some examples of how you can integrate instant messaginging with your existing applications on our hosted platform.

• Real Time Presence Based Alerting
  Send instant messages directly to your users IM client with the ability to request IM presence status allowing you to decide when and where to send an alert.
• Instant Data Retrieval
  Opening up your application data for access via IM offers many benefits. The immediate nature of instant messaging offers your end users a fast and eficient way to quickly query data that would traditionally require launching a browser and authenticating.
• "Fire and Forget" Data Entry
  Offer your users a faster and more convenient way to quickly enter data into your applications via an IM client.
• Mobilize your Applications via Mobile Instant Messaging
  With IM clients becomming more and more prevelent on handheld devices, mobile instant messaging is an excellent alternative to pricey sms text messaging systems.

How Does It Work?

IMified bot hosting makes the process of running an IM bot on AOL, MSN, Gtalk/Jabber, and Yahoo amazingly simple. We offer one easy to use, REST based API that will allow you to provide IM interaction to your applications using your own screen names on the networks of your choice.

Our hosted solution lets you easily send and receive messages to and from your end users IM client without having to leverage any proprietary technologies. Your bot(s) can be developed using your existing server and scripting technologies to create a system that specifically fits your needs.

Getting Started

Our hosted API offering is currently in BETA. We are extending special pricing to customers who would like to sign up for service during our BETA period. Please contact us for more information about the service and to request an API account.

Email: imified@imified.com By Phone: (916) 341-9683 M-F 9am - 5pm est