AVT Corporation Experiences Exceptional Growth in Sales of Unified Messaging Seats.KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1999-- Company sees year-over-year growth of 66 percent in sales of unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. seats AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. Corporation (Nasdaq:AVTC AVTC Antivirus Test Center (informatics, University of Hamburg) AVTC Automatic Vehicular Traffic Control ) today announced the company has experienced a 66 percent increase in year-over-year sales of its CallXpress unified messaging seats, working off a base of tens of thousands of seats. "We are extremely pleased and encouraged by the solid and continued growth of the unified messaging market," said Randy Ottinger, AVT CTI (Computer Telephone Integration) Combining data with voice systems in order to enhance telephone services. For example, automatic number identification (ANI) allows a caller's records to be retrieved from the database while the call is routed to the appropriate party. Software Group President. "AVT's unified messaging sales are at record levels and our position in the market continues to build and strengthen. Our success is due in part to AVT's dedication to being the first to market with the most innovative and reliable solutions in the industry." In addition to this upward development, AVT has seen a shift in trends within the marketplace. Currently, 70 percent of the company's CallXpress unified messaging sales are now Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT-based, as compared to the previously favored OS/2 platform. "We believe the increase in sales of our Windows NT-based unified messaging is due in part to the large growth and acceptance of the Microsoft server platform throughout the technical community," said Ottinger. "Companies and their IT professionals are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. communications systems that are built upon standard systems they already know and own." "We are excited that AVT has developed a highly scalable unified messaging solution built on the Microsoft platform," said Dave Malcolm, group product manager for Exchange at Microsoft. "Microsoft and AVT share the same vision of providing powerful solutions to make today's knowledge worker more productive and the corporate enterprise more competitive." With Frost & Sullivan predicting sales of unified messaging will swell to close to $5 billion by 2002, this is an attractive market for AVT. Within the last year AVT has made several feature-rich enhancements to its family of unified messaging products, which has contributed to the technology's rise and expansion within the marketplace. One such enhancement is the development of its high-capacity, fault-tolerant unified messaging system designed specifically for large multi-site corporations. CallXpress Enterprise allows support for up to 10,000 users on a single Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. server. With the addition of this product AVT is tapping into new areas within the market, which is contributing to the mounting progress of the company's unified messaging product line. In fact, AVT reports that they are selling more desktop license seats per server, indicating the company is selling increasingly more systems to large corporate enterprise customers. The AVT CallXpress unified messaging solution allows users to manage their voice, fax, and email messages through either their Microsoft Outlook/Exchange or Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. inbox. CallXpress also provides access to voice, fax, and email messages over the telephone. AVT Corporation is a world leader in Managed Communications(tm) solutions. The company is a fully integrated supplier of unified messaging and document management communication solutions for the enterprise. They specialize in call processing In telecommunication, the term call processing has the following meanings:
CallXpress is a registered trademark of the AVT Corporation. Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation. Lotus Notes is a registered trademark of the Lotus Corporation. Other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners. NOTE TO EDITORS: News releases are available from AVT's Newsroom fax server. Call 425/820-4089 and follow the prompts. This is document number 77117. News releases can also be found on AVT's World Wide Web site at www.avtc.com. |
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