Applied Voice Systems' Healthcare Application Certified as Siemens Rolm Ready; Manual Process Now Automated By Bed Trakker Software.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1996--Siemens Rolm Communications today announced Siemens Rolm Ready certification of Bed Trakker 1.0 from Applied Voice Systems, Inc. of Joliet, Ill.

Bed Trakker is a software application that enables healthcare admissions and housekeeping departments to track and report a room's status, whether vacant, occupied or in need of service.

Siemens Rolm Ready certification assures Bed Trakker's seamless integration with the Siemens Rolm 9751 CBX, Models 30 and 80. The Siemens Rolm Ready Developers' Program improves customer choices and accelerates development of applications that meet requirements of Siemens Rolm customers. Siemens Rolm gives third party developers the tools, support and testing environment for integrations using the TAPI, TSAPI, CSTA, CSA and Windows DDE.

Bed Trakker

Bed Trakker is CTI-enabled through a Siemens Rolm communication management product called ComManager. ComManager's open links enable Bed Trakker to report a room's condition through a dedicated telephone extension, which is forwarded to an application voice server (AVS). The AVS prompts the employee for an identification code and sends the information to the housekeeping or admissions department where the information is viewed on Applied Voice Systems' Real Time Viewer. Bed Trakker utilizes bedside telephones, and in most cases, existing computer systems. With Bed Trakker, management can determine the number of beds available, the bed turn-around time and overall service time.

"Computer telephony is fast becoming the driving force in the development of new applications for the healthcare market," said Glen Kirsch, president, Applied Voice Systems. "This application exemplifies how CTI impacts a hospitalIs ability to accurately manage the availability of beds, track bed utilization and increase efficiency by controlling overall labor costs."

ComManager

ComManager is a Windows-based application that gives users visible access to all the features of their telephone and voice messaging systems. The fully programmable telephone with its "soft keys" makes it easy to use the special features that facilitate call routing and enable collection of call information. ComManager provides both TAPI and DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) capabilities to integrate voice functions with any Windows application on the desktop.

Bed Trakker is the first Siemens Rolm Ready certified product to use DDE links to integrate telephony features with Windows-based applications. ComManager ships as a complete kit, ComManager PRO, that includes hardware, TAPI and DDE drivers and the Siemens Rolm's ComManager telephony application for Windows. ComManager is supported on 9751 CBX releases 5.0 and higher and runs on PCs running Windows 3.x and Windows 95. ComManager Pro offers the industry's best value in CTI solutions, with a list price off $299.

Siemens Rolm CTI

CallBridge is the name of the Siemens Rolm family of products that enable CTI links for the ROLM 9751 CBX and applications for host-, LAN, and PC-level integrations. The product line currently supports TSAPI, TAPI, CSA and CSTA.

The Siemens Rolm Ready Developers' Program provides technical and marketing support to customers and independent developers at all stages of CTI development. Nine independent software products, supporting TAPI, TSAPI or both, have been Siemens Rolm Ready certified. In addition, there are about 20 more products in testing.

"The goal of Siemens Rolm Ready Labs is to make CTI applications readily available to our customers across several industries," said David English, manager, Siemens Rolm Ready Labs. "These partnerships assist Siemens Rolm customers in obtaining applications tailored to meet their specific requirements easily, affordably and reliably."

Siemens Rolm is a leading provider of private telecommunications solutions and CTI applications, pioneering CTI in the mid-1980s, as well as PBX-to-host and -LAN interfaces. Siemens Rolm is part of Siemens Private Communications Systems, the world's largest supplier of private telecommunications systems, with annual sales of approximately $4.9 billion and more than 500,000 customers and a million systems installed worldwide. Telecommunications and networking accounted for more than 20 percent of Siemens AG's sales of $61.6 billion in the fiscal year 1994-95. -0-

Note to Editors: Siemens Rolm is a registered trademark of Siemens Rolm Communications Inc. CallBridge and ComManager Pro are trademarks of Siemens Rolm Communications Inc. Bed Trakker 1.0 and Real Time Viewer are trademarks of Applied Voice Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Siemens Rolm

Karron Esmonde, 408/492-6915

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Customer Inquiries, 800/ROLM 123

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Applied Voice Systems, Inc.

Glen Kirsch, 815/436-4114

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