Kato.im Launches Scalable Corporate Chat Solution for Large Enterprise

OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Kato (www.kato.im), a company dedicated to improving the efficiency of business communication, today launched Kato Enterprise, the first full-featured professional chat solution designed for companies of arbitrary size. The launch builds on Kato's flagship chat solution – Kato Teams – and allows companies to finally incorporate chat throughout their organization, while the program's architecture makes it possible to carry user identities and private conversations across all teams. The platform also introduces the ability to use single sign-on providers such as OneLogin, Okta, and Ping Identity, and integrates seamlessly with companies using Active Directory, LDAP, or Google Apps to provide large enterprises a simple, secure chat platform that syncs with the company's existing employee directory.

Similar to Kato Teams, Kato Enterprise provides live 1-to-1 and group messaging, file sharing and search. Kato Enterprise was designed with a flexible user interface that supports simultaneous conversations without any of the restrictions associated with other chat providers, such as limitations on team members, message history stored, multi-team functionality, and third-party integrations.

"Kato Enterprise takes what has been successful with Kato Teams – easy-to-manage user interface, side-by-side conversations, and eliminating multi-browser navigation – and expands the platform to large enterprise with its third-party integrations and single sign-on solution," said Andrei Soroker, Founder and CEO of Kato. "Where Kato Teams is so effective in allowing cross-company chat communication, Kato Enterprise allows companies to efficiently streamline communication across departments and offices in the same building or across the globe without disrupting its current operations. It's the first real chat solution for large-scale enterprises that also works for small and mid-sized companies."

Additionally, Kato Enterprise provides generic support for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM), which can be used with other single sign-on and provisioning providers and in-house integrations. Kato Enterprise also introduces the ability for companies to specify a company-specific Amazon S3 storage bucket, providing tighter access control to files shared in Kato.

In addition to the launch of Kato Enterprise, Kato is also announcing new integrations with Google Hangouts, Google Drive, Box, and UberConference. The Google Hangouts integration gives companies an easy way to start a Google Hangout and securely share an invite link in Kato, while Google Drive provides the ability to share a link to a document in Kato. Box will provide the ability to share Box documents in Kato, while UberConference allows a user to start a conference and share dial-in details in a Kato room. All integrations are available in both Kato Teams and Kato Enterprise products.

Kato Enterprise is currently available by invitation only. 

To learn more about Kato, visit http://www.kato.im.

About Kato
Kato is bringing sanity and productivity back to the workplace for large and growing companies, enabling teams to communicate faster and more efficiently, reduce email overload and easily access their organizational knowledge. Real-time communication is [now] a core part of business processes and Kato is the indispensable RTC tool for managers and their teams. With Kato, companies are now able to leverage the full power of communication to increase their teams' productivity, efficiency and success.

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