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As it continues to build out its "unified communications" offering, Microsoft has swooped to buy Parlano, the US-based company spun out of Swiss bank UBS to develop and market the MindAlign group chat application used by Deutsche Bank, Putnam Investments and others.

It will be adding the group chat feature to Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator.
‘Parlano has been successful in meeting the communications needs of companies in financial services and other vertical markets,’ said Microsoft’s corporate vice president of unified communications Gurdeep Singh Pall.
‘Parlano’s expertise added to Microsoft’s unified communications offering will deliver customers the most complete instant messaging and group chat product.,’ he added.
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