Ascendent Systems Adding Presence Capabilities to Voice Mobility Solutions.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Strategic Technology Partnership with Jabber An open standard for instant messaging (IM). There are tens of thousands of Jabber servers on the Internet, most of which are privately run within a company or college campus. There are also hundreds of public Jabber servers that any user can register with, Google Talk being the largest. , Inc. Enhances Enterprise Voice Mobility Leader's Product Suite with Carrier-Grade Presence Infrastructure and "Click-to-Call" Applications Ascendent Systems, a leading voice mobility solutions provider, today announced that its PowerConnect Voice Mobility Suite features the extended presence capabilities of the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (XCP XCP Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber) XCP eXtended Copy Protection (First 4 Internet; UK) XCP Explicit Control Protocol XCP Expendable Current Profiler ). As part of the invitation-only Jabber, Inc. Strategic Technology Partner Program, Ascendent added a "click-to-call" application enabling PowerConnect users to initiate calls and chats with individuals and groups from within Jabber XCP. Through the Strategic Technology Partner Program, Ascendent and Jabber, Inc. are committed to joint development and marketing efforts around the presence-enabled features of the PowerConnect enterprise voice mobility solution. Extended presence has emerged in the enterprise to represent a set of variables such as location, availability, capability, and role. Embedded within existing infrastructures such as PowerConnect, presence data enables organizations to route the right information, to the right people, at the right time as part of a real-time architecture. "By working with Jabber, Inc., Ascendent delivers enhanced presence functionality to our PowerConnect customers," said Theron Dodson, vice president of marketing at Ascendent Systems. "This key partnership makes strides in Ascendent's goal to proliferate pro·lif·er·ate v. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring. enterprise voice mobility with any device throughout businesses, universities, government, retail, and hospitals, among others - essentially all industries in which accessibility to employees directly affects daily operations." "Joining Jabber, Inc.'s Strategic Technology Partner Program underscores Ascendent's commitment to ensuring mission-critical business continuity by advancing enterprise voice mobility," said Rick Emery emery: see corundum. emery Granular rock consisting of a mixture of the mineral corundum (aluminum oxide, Al2O3) and iron oxides such as magnetite (Fe3O4) or hematite (Fe2O3). , vice president of business development at Jabber, Inc. "Ascendent is a member of the program because it is aggressively pursuing the development of interoperable, extensible, and flexible communications solutions for the market." Ascendent's PowerConnect Voice Mobility Suite converges wireless and wireline devices with single number reachability and consolidated voicemail allowing users to respond to customers and crises immediately, regardless of location or device. It extends the identity and functionality of the corporate deskphone (PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). ) - such as conferencing, notification, hold, transfer, and enterprise dialtone - to any device a user chooses. The new presence integration, click-to-call, and click-to-conference applications allow users to initiate a phone conversation or a conference call with other users included on the enterprise Jabber XCP roster, which can be extended and federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. with the rosters/directories of trusted trading partners. The click-to-call application rounds out an extensive list of functions offered in the PowerConnect suite and is part of a new set of presence-based applications being incorporated into the solution. About Jabber, Inc. Jabber, Inc. is a leading provider of real-time presence and messaging solutions. More than seven million users--representing hundreds of telecommunications carriers/operators, financial institutions, government agencies, higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. institutions, logistics companies, and other organizations--have licensed the Jabber XCP commercial server to underpin carrier-class real-time, presence-powered applications including desktop and wireless IM for enterprises and consumers, real-time trading systems, and government intelligence systems. The JabberNow IM appliance is targeted to small and medium businesses, that require secure, interoperable, and compliant business-class IM. Jabber Inc., a 2005 EContent 100 Award Finalist and a 2005 Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: 100 Award Finalist, counts Arcelor, AT&T, BellSouth, CapWIN, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , FedEx, France Telecom, HP, Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH), founded in 1850, is a diversified, global financial services firm. It is a participant in investment banking, equity and fixed income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. , McKesson, Orange, Portugal Telecom Portugal Telecom (Euronext: PTC, NYSE: PT) is the biggest telecommunications operator in Portugal. It operates mainly in Portugal and Brazil. It also has a significant presence in Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Timor-Leste, Angola, Kenya, the People's Republic , and Wanadoo amongst its customers. Jabber, Inc.'s investors include France Telecom, Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investing arm, Jona, Inc., and Webb Interactive Services, Inc. For more information: http://www.jabber.com About Ascendent Systems Ascendent Systems is the premier provider of enterprise voice mobility solutions that allow companies to be more responsive to customers and crisis by giving them the power to reach anyone, anywhere, immediately. Ascendent's PowerConnect voice mobility suite of applications provides single number reachability, real-time notification and conferencing, and voice continuity. These solutions allow users to automatically extend the identity and functionality of their business desk phone to any other device. Partnered with major mobile carrier and infrastructure providers, Ascendent has solutions deployed in Fortune 500 corporations across many industry verticals including manufacturing, finance, healthcare, government, hospitality, and education. Ascendent is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Jose, CA. For more information: http://www.ascendentsystems.com. |
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