AVT Corporation Extends its Global Alliance with IBM and Lotus by Delivering Unified Messaging for the IBM AS/400 Server.Business Editors, Technology Writers KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2000 AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. CallXpress 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. Solution Passes Benchmark Test to Run on IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AS/400 Server with Lotus Domino AVT Corporation, the leading provider of business-to-business communications solutions, today announced its CallXpress unified messaging solution passed the IBM benchmark testing to provide unified messaging in an IBM AS/400 server environment with Lotus Notes and Domino. An extension of a global alliance that began in October of 1999, the CallXpress product qualification represents the first and only unified messaging solution to receive AS/400 benchmark approvals from IBM and Lotus. "AVT is pleased to bring its CallXpress unified messaging solution to Lotus Notes and Domino on the IBM AS/400 platform," said Randy Ottinger, president of the 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 at AVT Corporation. "The IBM AS/400 is a recognized leader in reliability and functionality for enterprises. The combined AVT, IBM and Lotus solution provides functionality and productivity to enterprise users that is unlike any solution on the market today." This exclusive unified messaging certification presents AVT with a variety of new sales channels through which to sell CallXpress unified messaging. IBM currently sells the AS/400 through a direct sales force and more than 600 VARs. According to a recent IDC report, almost half of the 700,000 AS/400 units sold worldwide use Lotus Domino or will deploy Domino soon. "The IBM AS/400 platform offers a very reputable and highly reliable server that our customers have come to depend on," said Paul A. Woods, IBM AS/400 global business development executive. "Requirements for a telephony application, such as CallXpress, call for high levels of reliability and availability. Our Lotus Notes and Domino customers operating their CallXpress system with the IBM AS/400 can rest assure that their business-critical communications -- voice, fax and email messages -- are managed on one of the most secure and highly stable platforms in the industry." In October of last year, AVT and Lotus formed a strategic global partnership to provide comprehensive unified messaging solutions for the Lotus Domino (R5) server and Lotus Notes R5 client, in addition to the millions of seats of version 4.6 within the Lotus installed base. AS/400 customers using Lotus Notes and Domino will be able to benefit from the increased productivity and time savings associated with unified messaging. Customers that implement CallXpress will have anytime, anywhere access to voice, fax and email messages from a PC, telephone or Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . CallXpress allows users to manage all three message types-voice, fax and email-from their Notes inbox. About AVT Corporation AVT Corporation is the leading provider of business-to-business communications solutions, helping organizations control and meet the high demands of their communications workflow. The company specializes in developing and marketing its CallXpress unified messaging solution, its RightFAX and CommercePath fax and communications servers, and its MediaLinq electronic document delivery services. AVT has over 65,000 systems installed worldwide, with 80 percent of the Fortune 100 using the company's award winning products and services. AVT is headquartered in Kirkland, WA and has main offices in Tucson, AZ, Portland, OR, and San Francisco, CA. In addition, AVT has sales and support offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Tokyo. Founded in 1982, AVT is publicly traded under the symbol "AVTC AVTC Antivirus Test Center (informatics, University of Hamburg) AVTC Automatic Vehicular Traffic Control " on the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on National Market. AVT maintains a site on the World Wide Web at www.avtc.com. About IBM The AS/400, with nearly 700,000 servers shipped to companies ranging from small and medium businesses to the enterprise market, is the most successful business computer in history. Capable of managing and connecting a company's core business to e-business, the server runs the industry's hottest and most modern e-business technologies -- Java, Lotus Domino, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. , BI, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . Visit www.ibm.com/as400 for more information. NOTE TO EDITORS: News releases are available from AVT Newsroom fax server. Call 425/820-4089 and follow the prompts. This document is ASAP (chat) asap - As soon as possible. number 77143. CallXpress and CallXpress Enterprise are registered trademarks of AVT Corporation. Other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners. IBM Certifies CallXpress Page 2 of 2 |
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