CrossWind Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1989 to develop networked productivity applications. Development on its premier scheduling and task management product, Synchronize, began in the UNIX environment because UNIX offered the most robust technology then available for networked information sharing. CrossWind's technical scope has since been expanded to other operating environments, to enable Synchronize to provide platform independent scheduling, task and resource management throughout the heterogeneous environments found in Global 1000 organizations.

Synchronize boosts enterprise productivity by facilitating communication and leveraging existing staff and resources -- making it a particularly useful solution for organizations with multiple locations, as well as organizations downsizing to client-server environments. The scalability offered in Synchronize provides a solution that can grow to meet the needs of expanding organizations. The thousands of Synchronize customers include sites with as few as ten users, to sites with many thousands of users. Currently, the largest Synchronize site is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) workgroup automation project which relies on Synchronize as a key component in a geographic information system for 30,000 Forest Service employees in 795 locations.

Synchronize

Enterprise-Wide
Synchronize is a real-time calendaring and scheduling application for enterprises of all sizes. It is designed to support enterprise-wide collaboration among team members regardless of their individual locations. Synchronize's advanced architecture makes it one of the most scalable applications in its category, offering enterprise collaboration on LANS, WANS and corporate Intranets, from five to fifty-thousand users and beyond.

Real-Time Productivity
As a real-time group calendaring and scheduling application, Synchronize contains important coordination tools that save an organization time in scheduling meetings and company resources. Users can distribute agendas and memos, share notes, assign and track tasks, and issue reminders. Synchronize includes group and personal task management as well as flexible resource management capabilities. Organizations can also achieve consensus on both short-term and ongoing issues through the use of shared notes in private or public forums. Most importantly, Synchronize is easy to use!

Simple Installation
Synchronize supports collaboration among geographically disparate sites, bringing the enterprise closer together. The coordination and collaboration features included in Synchronize work in unison to enhance decision-making and increase productivity, helping to reduce project cycle times, increasing ROI. Synchronize is easy to deploy and requires no additional expenses for integration into an enterprise's existing environment. Synchronize is ready right out of the box, no programming, extra database server, propriety Web server or email engines required. All user populations can be transparently increased with NO disruption of service. Because it is based on industry standards, interoperability with all web servers and integration with other applications, such as e-mail products, is more straight-forward.

Architected for Scalability
Synchronize's advanced scalable design ensures that it will grow with the enterprise. Designed for cross-platform deployments, Synchronize runs on over 18 commercial UNIX servers and WINDOWS NT/2000/XP/2003, as well as clients for Microsoft Windows, X.11/Motif and ASCII desktops, in addition to CyberScheduler for full scheduling functionality through your Intranet Web browser. It has a robust client/server architecture with distributed databases. Administrators can easily distribute Synchronize's common database into many networked databases that take advantage of existing servers and networks. Because Synchronize communicates directly across TCP/IP, access to critical information is instant with none of the delays associated with file-based access methods, e-mail based scheduling or slower transports.

CyberScheduler

Designed specifically for enterprise calendaring and scheduling on the Web, only CyberScheduler gives you these important advantages:

• No hidden costs. CyberScheduler is framework independent, which means it does not require a proprietary messaging infrastructure. CyberScheduler runs on any standard Web server and can operate in mixed application or mixed framework environments.
• Scalability. A distributed database architecture lets you quickly and transparently add as many new users and user groups as you need. You can administer calendaring centrally or at multiple locations.

Technology to enhance teamwork
Providing proven thin-client Web technology built on a real-time scheduling engine, CyberScheduler brings effective Intranet scheduling to any size organization with tools such as shared notes, and group and personal task managers. Efficient scheduling reduces resource requirements, increases productivity, improves results, helps teams meet all milestones, and significantly shortens cycle time on critical projects.

By deploying CyberScheduler across corporate Intranets and enterprise networks, you can dramatically enhance the productivity of workgroups throughout your entire organization. Even global organizations with thousands of users can seamlessly schedule meetings, reserve resources, and manage tasks in real-time through familiar Web browsers or native clients.

With CyberScheduler, organizations can deploy a comprehensive calendaring and scheduling solution on corporate Intranets with Internet access for remote employees. Users enjoy full scheduling functionality through their Internet browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The latest in web technology in combination with proven, robust server technology
CyberScheduler's robust client/server architecture, based on CrossWind's proven calendar server, meets the most demanding requirements for framework independence, scalability, speed, cross-platform support, security control and ease of administration. CyberScheduler offers the best in new Intranet technology, with the reliability of robust, production server technology that has been proven over years in production service.

Best of all, CyberScheduler is quick and easy to install. Electronic software distribution includes the calendar server, with Web agent and a CGI program that runs on most all standard web servers.

Affordable----with No Hidden Costs
Although some competitive products appear to have a very low, per-user price---a good look at the total cost of ownership will reveal that a substantial, continuing investment will be required to assure smooth operations for these products.

CyberScheduler is easy to deploy and requires no additional expenses for integration into an enterprise's existing environment. Ready "off the shelf," CyberScheduler does not require programming, extra database servers, email/messaging platforms, or proprietary web servers. CyberScheduler runs on the standard HTTP servers, including Netscape FastTrack and Enterprise ServersTM, ApacheTM and Microsoft ISSTM.

CyberScheduler is licensed on a flat per user basis with NO EXTRA CHARGE for the server software.  Since upgrades are backward compatible, they can be done (or not) on a workgroup or departmental basis. Your organization will not be compelled to buy into new releases under the duress of lost support or lack of compatibility.

Crosswind Technologies can be found on the web at www.crosswind.com