Horizon 2.4

Save time on a daily basis thanks to Horizon, your corporate chat solution fully secured and integrated with the Digital Workplace!

Are you on the move? Connect from your smartphone to your chat Horizon and send an audio message.

Coupled with the JNLP plugin, Horizon becomes an indispensable ally. No more unstacking conversations after a period of absence: get a one-click summary of conversations since the last message read. Colleagues have left you audio messages, but you can't get away? Transcribe your audio messages so you can read them in peace. Have you received an audio message that's a little too long to listen to? Get a summary of the message in two clicks: one click to transcribe the message and a second click to summarize it.

When to use this plugin ?

Do you need a quick response, but don't want to disturb others? Less intrusive than a phone call, a chat message lets you contact a colleague in real time and get an instant response if he or she is available.

Tired of receiving and sending emails for details that could be handled more easily and quickly if everyone was in the same room? Horizon lets you bring people together in a virtual room to share information more efficiently.

Do your employees use public chat solutions for professional discussions? With Horizon, make your employees' daily lives easier and encourage the use of chat, without compromising on security or on your IT strategy.

What's new

With 1.2 release , Horizon offers you an even faster and richer experience. You can now :

• Custom Sections (to allow the user to rearrange the view of conversations)
• Publication card and CardBuilder (to present content in a conversation)
• Delete conversation  1 to 1

Horizon has evolved technically to improve performance

• cache management,
• improvement of CPU usage, memory management.

What does this plugin do ?

Horizon provides your employees with all the instant messaging features they need to communicate with one or more colleagues at any time directly from their Digital Workplace

• 1-to-1 or room conversations
• Dedicated application accessible from the Digital Workplace
• Continuity of use between all devices: PC, tablet or mobile
• Notification of new messages, even when Horizon is not started
• Fully secured solution on the corporate network

• are directly authenticated to securely send and receive messages
• can initiate conversations directly from profile cards or cards
• have direct access to all collaborators (no need to have them as contact)
• can receive alerts from the Digital Workplace in Horizon
• can start voice / video calls with the company's video conferencing solution (JCall integration that supports many videoconferencing tools, includingt Jitsi, Zoom, BigBlueButton andGlowbl. ) 

• Reactions to messages (emoji) and list of people who reacted to messages
• Quoting messsages
• Sending files and images (copy & paste and drag & drop)
• Videos with integrated player
• Animated Gif
• URL and tweet preview
• Mention and auto-completion (message highlighted when the user is mentioned)
• Edit and delete messages
• Switch from one conversation to the next while keeping your input in progress
• Copy a conversation from a given message.
• Sending audio messages
• Create a poll
• Sending code snippets with appropriate formatting

What's more, when coupled with the JNLP plugin Horizon lets you :

• summarize a conversation from a given message
• transcribe an audio message

• Room presence indicator (user focus)
• Date of last member activity accessible by clicking on the user icons to the right of the message
• Unread message indicator and counter
• Dark mode (black background instead of white)
• Custom status (emoji, text and duration) that can be saved
• Global (Do Not Disturb) and Room-specific notification Rules
• Personalization of the name and image for each room
• Filter on room names
• PWA (Progressive Web App) support for use as in a native or mobile application
• Swipe mobile gestures to display conversations or chatroom members

Horizon is a sustainable solution that is consistent with your business strategy:

• Application rights management (ACL)
• Open access to guest members for your extended organization
• Automatic deletion of messages (default setting 90 days)
• Removal of deactivated or deleted members from rooms

Features

Horizon provides a wide range of connections with your Digital Workplace to facilitate collaborative working.

• Publication rooms that allow you to create a room :
  
  • From a task project
  • From a calendar event
  • Other

• Collaborative space rooms
  • Possibility of opening a general room in a collaborative workspace (as of version 7.5.4)
  • Any new member registered in this space will automatically join the room in Horizon

• Room managers :
  • On a collaborative space room, only collaborative space managers can act on the room
  • On a classic room, it is possible to define a manager
  • The manager can:
    • Modify the room
    • Manage members and access
      • Add a member
      • Remove a member
      • Select group managers
      • Enable or disable access to message history for new members (by default, access to message history is enabled.)
    • Add links
    • Create a downward communication group by managing authorizations.
      • disable message sending
      • prevent member feedback

• Room visibility :
  • Private
  • Secret
  • Public
• Room directory :
  
  • Display of rooms to which the member belongs (public and private)
  • Registration to a private room must be validated by the room's members
  • Share links to a room in a text, or in a message on Horizon
• Statistics (available in the room directory) :
  • Number of messages over a period
  • Number of 1to1 rooms
  • Number of group rooms
  • Number of users
• Visibility of the current event in the agenda of the person with whom you are chatting when the newsgroup information is displayed ("Details" section visible).

What our customers like about it

Easy access to all employees and guests

Compared to a public mobile chat solution, Horizon is much more comfortable: I don't have to add the whole company to my contacts! Since Horizon is integrated with the Digital Workplace, I can easily find all my colleagues from the directory, but also thanks to auto-completion when I start a chat or a chat room with several people. With Horizon, I can also contact external people who have guest accounts.

Continuity of use between desktop and mobile

With Horizon, I can continue on my mobile conversations that I started on my PC and vice versa, whereas before I had 2 different tools, one on my PC at the office and aother one on my mobile. Horizon allows me to stay on top of the conversation when I'm on the move and to optimize my waiting time during the day, especially on public transport.

A secure solution that we keep control of

In terms of storage, we know that all messages that are sent or recevied remain on the company's network. This is particularly important with regards to the Cloud Act to which all other chat solutions from the United States are subject. We thus retain complete control over the storage and archiving time of the messages and related attachments. In addition, Horizon requires the same level of authentication as access to the Digital Workplace, which reinforces our security strategy.

Creating a downward communication channel

A very useful option for disclosing essential information that doesn't lend itself to discussion or reaction.

Poll integration

A very useful additional feature for collecting on-the-spot reactions following an exchange. 

What's new

Version 2.4

This version of the Horizon plugin brings:

• permissions management for discussion group managers, including
  • Restrict messages to managers only
  • Allow or disallow member reactions

Like WhatsApp or Teams, Horizon now offers an option to turn any group into a downward communication channel. These options can be accessed from the "More" → "Authorizations" menu

• • Authorize access to message history

A summary of authorizations is available in the group sidebar

• Group closure for managers

An automatic message is sent to all members to inform them of this.

• Poll creation
  • slash command (/), then choose a survey or go directly to /survey
• Block code formatting for those who need to share pieces of code
  • command slash (/) then choose Code or directly /code

Version 2.3

This version includes the following features:

• Recording of audio messages (and, if you have the JNLP module, transcription of audio messages)
• Copy of a conversation from a message
• Possibility for an administrator to deactivate Firebase (push notifications) to activate web-notifications. It is then necessary to open Horizon to receive notifications
• Improved support for incoming webhooks.

The plugin in action