LONDON, February 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Reuters Messaging Interchange launches as the first single-link and
multi-vendor Enterprise Instant Messaging hub in collaboration with Cisco,
IBM and Microsoft

Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of Reuters Messaging (RM)
Interchange, which for the first time allows Enterprise Instant Messaging
(EIM) users to connect and communicate with colleagues and counterparts by
using one link - regardless of corporate or technology boundaries, as with
email or telephone interaction.

RM Interchange is the first global instant messaging hub that connects
Thomson Reuters RM with the leading EIM systems - Cisco's Jabber XCP, IBM
Lotus' Sametime and Microsoft's LCS/OCS. Users of these systems, the largest
and most influential in the EIM space, can now connect with over 5,000
external organisations and add their business contacts to a global external
community.

Unlike existing federation gateways, RM Interchange is the first to
enable businesses worldwide to federate without the need to establish
individual links between them. To interconnect hundreds or thousands of
different instant messaging customers can be a time consuming venture for an
organisation's IT department. With the RM Interchange service, businesses can
now reach over IM a multitude of other companies with a single link.

The ability to communicate instantly and to display a presence indicating
users' availability to communicate has made IM a hugely successful
communication tool. RM Interchange offers carrier-grade connectivity for IM
across the corporate community, delivering a secure and reliable hub for
businesses across all sectors, including finance, legal and healthcare.
Customers connecting to RM Interchange are also automatically connected to
the Reuters Messaging community including over 130,000 end-users in 5,000
firms worldwide, and will be listed on the inter-company community directory
enabling users to quickly find counterparts, potentially creating the world's
largest business IM community.

David Gurle, Global Head of Collaboration Services at Thomson Reuters,
added: "The sharing of accurate and timely market information is never more
vital than at times of heightened economic volatility. Over the last few
years IM has matured and become the nerve system of many financial
institutions to conduct business decisions, progressively replacing email.
However, corporate IM deployments have not yet fully used their potential to
enable their users to reach their counterparts and customers in other
organisations."

"This has now been addressed with the launch of RM Interchange. Users
across the enterprise will now benefit not only from instant communication
with colleagues and external contacts but from the safety of comprehensive
security and compliance functionality, therefore truly tapping the full
potential of IM within the corporate domain", said Gurle.

About Reuters Messaging

Reuters Messaging enables financial professionals to communicate
instantly with colleagues and customers while addressing the business,
security and regulatory requirements of financial institutions. It features
premium group collaboration capabilities through chat rooms and enriched
market data sharing capabilities such as file sharing, pre-formatted
financial forms, and image sharing. Reuters Messaging also has a centralised
dashboard interface which enables users to view and manage all incoming
emails, instant messages, and chat room messages. This platform is
specifically designed for financial professionals and is built on top of
Microsoft's EIM technology.

About Thomson Reuters

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for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with
innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision
makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare
and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan,
Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 50,000 people in 93 countries.
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