Enterprise coexistence
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Enterprise coexistence refers to the means for users on different remote systems to communicate with each other seamlessly. This new technology is only just beginning to appear commercially. As a result, it's identified differently by different companies (Amazon WorkMail calls it 'interoperability', Dell calls it coexistence, and Cloudiway calls it both coexistence and enterprise coexistence, while BitTitan calls it enterprise coexistence: Binary Tree has opted to market each aspect of enterprise coexistence as individual products).
Enterprise coexistence solutions usually include calendar free/busy scheduling as well as global address list management on each remote system. Additional features also exist, such as mail routing. The remote systems during enterprise coexistence do not need to be the same type, allowing interoperability between considerably different remote systems, such as G Suite and Exchange, whether cloud-based or on-premises.
Each remote system communicates through a dedicated coexistence server, which acts as an interpreter between the two, passing information between systems in a format they recognize and accept. Each system them passes the details back to the source of the request.
Enterprise coexistence is primarily used by businesses during mergers, acquisitions and specific collaborations. Some businesses opt to use coexistence long-term.
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