IM Interactive offers world-class engineering and development services to assist you in building IM applications for your business.

You can expect the following from IM Interactive:

Unique Expertise - Expert engineers with experience in developing instant messaging based applications that Reduce Development Time.


Innovation and creativity – IM Interactive is a proven leader in IM application development, which translates into Strategic Market Advantage for you.


Proven Reliability - IM Interactive is the only preferred professional development services partner of Akonix, the recognized leader in enterprise instant messaging.

Do I need an Instant Messaging application for my enterprise?

We will let you answer that question, but let us give some food for thought?

Instant Messaging continues to grow rapidly year over year, and there at least 120 Million users of IM in the United States alone. Worldwide, instant messaging is even more popular in places like Europe. On the MSN instant messenger network there is over 170 Million subscribers.

Instant Messaging applications are becoming more accessible and popular. The instant messaging networks have opened up to commercial use and are looking for commercial opportunities to bring more value to their subscriber bases.

Instant Messaging is the third leg of the converging communications stool: voice, e-mail and instant messaging. It is a great, real time way to reach and communicate with your employees and customers.

What is an instant messaging application and
how can it work for me?

Instant messaging applications are essentially software applications with instant messaging user interfaces. They are remote extensions of applications that use instant messaging to send commands to a program or system, and the system returns information to the user through IM. In addition to IM applications, another form of instant messaging automation exists that is known as a “Bot”. Bots are software applications developed for automated content responses to IM clients. Sometimes the term “Bot” is used in a colloquial sense to mean and refer to any interactive automated capability between a machine and an IM Client. We believe that this is an erroneous classification, and there are real differences between them. But, that is for another day.

Alerts are automated messages that are generated by an IM application or Bot host server and are sent out to IM clients. These can be on a regular basis or event driven. Alerts are the most common type of IM applications and Bots that are publicly available.

Here are few examples of IM Applications and IM Bots:

IM Advertising – Send advertising messages and offers to users
IM Alerts for Computer Systems Monitoring – Send alerts out from monitoring systems
IM Medical and Health Alerts – Send updates on research, health alerts
IM Movie Look-up – Send a request and find when and where movies are playing
IM Alerts for Real Estate Listings – Send information about new listing to clients
IM Reference Look-up – Look-up dictionary, trivia, and other information
IM School Cancellation and Event Alerts – Send information to the community
IM Stock Alerts – Send alerts about price changes on stocks
IM Telephone Directory Look-up – Send a request and retrieve listings
IM Traffic Alerts – Traffic updates are sent to users
IM Weather Bot – Weather information and updates are sent to user