Appiant Technologies Joins Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program, Completes inUnison Product Development.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2001 Unified Communications/Unified Information Leader Successfully Demonstrates Interoperability Of inUnison(TM) Product With Cisco uOne(TM) Unified Communications The real time redirection of a voice, text or e-mail message to the device closest to the intended recipient at any given time. For example, voice calls to desk phones could be routed to the user's cellphone when required. Software Platform NHancement Technologies Inc., doing business as Appiant Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:NHAN), announced today that it has joined the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program as a unified communications partner focusing on providing hosted solutions for service providers. The announcement marks the final step in Appiant Technologies' development of its inUnison(TM) Portal. First customer deployment, the next key step in the inUnison(TM) roll-out, is scheduled for the March quarter 2001 with Pipeline Technologies. "We are excited to join the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program," said Doug Zorn, Appiant Technologies president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The integration of our inUnison product with Cisco's uOne unified communications software platform proves our viability in allowing consumers and mobile workers to coordinate, on-the-fly, their telephone, email, fax, paging and Internet communications through a unified, intuitive interface anywhere at anytime." The Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program is a community of technology and deployment companies enabling service providers to seize revenue and service opportunities created by the transition from circuit to packet networks. With the ecosystem model Ecosystem models, or ecological models, are mathematical representations of ecosystems. Typically they simplify complex foodwebs down to their major components or trophic levels, and quantify these as either numbers of organisms, biomass or the inventory/concentration of , service providers gain efficiency, innovation, and flexibility along with the power to choose from best-of-breed products and services based on open industry standards. Key categories of member focus include OSS/BSS, Voice Applications, Packet Telephony Synonymous with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), in which a digital voice stream is broken up into small chunks (packets) and transmitted over a packet-switched network. See IP telephony and packet switching. , Broadband Access See broadband and wireless broadband. and Solution Integration/Deployment. To join the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program, Appiant had to demonstrate that its inUnison Web-centric unified information portal could be deployed on Cisco's uOne unified communications software platform. "Appiant's strength in unified communications makes them a welcome addition to our Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program," said David Kirk
Appiant's inUnison product interoperates with Cisco's IP-based, uOne unified communications software platform. InUnison's Web-centric model allows dissimilar applications to be easily integrated, and permits other applications like voice recognition software to operate seamlessly as part of a complete, user-friendly unified communications system. "Think of it this way," said Lloyd Mills, Appiant Technologies director of product marketing. "Our inUnison portal is the glue that bonds Cisco's uOne unified communications software platform and other telephony and management applications together, making the most out of the convergence of voice, data and Internet technologies." About inUnison The nucleus of Appiant's unified communications portal is the Web-based inUnison personal information portal. This IP-based repository is where all of the end-user's messaging, information and preferences reside -- voicemail and email, contact files and calendar schedules, call routing and notification parameters. Through a simple graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) or telephone user interface (TUI tui: see honeyeater. (Telephone User Interface) The combination of Touch-tone input from the telephone keypad coupled with speech output from the connected voicemail or IVR application. ), they can access everything from home, work or on the road -- whether they are on a payphone payphone Noun a coin-operated telephone payphone pay n → Münztelefon nt; (card phone) → Kartentelefon nt , cell phone, desktop, laptop or one of an ever-expanding list of Internet-enabled devices. They can control how they listen to, reply to, and manage their messages regardless of how the original messages were sent. InUnison overlays advanced "natural language" speech recognition, VoIP telephony, and "live" call routing and management to unify and simplify all of their communications. About Appiant Technologies Inc.: NHancement Technologies Inc., now doing business as Appiant Technologies Inc., (Nasdaq:NHAN), is a software development company that delivers unified communications and unified information software applications to service providers. Through Appiant's technology, WSPs, CLECs, LECs, ISPs and ASPs may offer consumers and enterprise employees the ability to manage in real-time, all of their telephone, email, voice mail, faxing, notification, personal, affinity group A special interest group. This is a marketing term for a group of people with similar interests. and Internet information. Appiant's enabling technologies include a speech recognition engine that allows seamless access to Appiant's distributed portal architecture that in turn integrates information from multiple sources. In addition, Appiant's channel management capabilities allow users to have effective access to this information on the road as effectively as in the office. Appiant's inUnison(TM) portal combines its enabling technologies with other software components to allow all of this information to be managed in real-time and in a highly personalized manner using virtually any device such as a PC, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). , telephone, or cellular phone. Appiant Technologies is a Cisco Ecosystem partner and a CISCO Powered Network Member. Appiant is headquartered in Pleasanton, and has offices throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and abroad. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.nhan.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: In addition to statements of historical fact, this press release contains "forward-looking statements" under the private securities litigation reform act of 1995. Those statements include statements about the company's expectations, assumptions, and plans concerning the company's ability to bring products to market, market penetration, and the rate of product development; the company's ability to achieve or maintain a competitive advantage, including the ability to be the first to bring a product to market; the company's ability to acquire or maintain market share; anticipated revenues or the growth rate of revenues; the anticipated success of the company's applications and services in the marketplace; the anticipated success of the company's business model; plans and expectations related to inUnision(TM) and relationships with customers and partners; and other factors described in the company's SEC filings. All forward-looking statements are made as of today, and the company disclaims any duty to update such statements. inUnison(TM) is a trademark of Appiant Technologies. |
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