Avistar Names Lisa Farley to Head Video Adoption Team.Provider of Desktop Video Solution Strengthens Focus on Customer Success SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Avistar Communications Corp. (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 :AVSR (Audio Visual Speech Recognition) Using lip reading software to enhance speech recognition. In noisy environments where a camera can be included, AVSR improves the computer's ability to recognize the speaker's words by visually tracking lip movement and ), a video collaboration platform An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. provider, today announced the appointment of Lisa Farley as Director, Client Development and Adoption. Farley will head the company's video adoption team, which works with customers to optimize the benefits realized from departmental and enterprise-wide deployments of Avistar desktop video solutions. Avistar has successfully deployed desktop video to more than 15,000 users in major global financial institutions. Farley will help this extensive community of Avistar users, bringing to her new role in-depth experience in working with clients to maximize the benefits of their information technology projects. Farley has served as Global Relationship Manager at Thomson Financial Thomson Financial A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. The firm, a division of Thomson Corporation, is best known to investors for its First Call segment, which publishes consensus earnings and District Manager specializing in Financial Services / Insurance at Siebel Systems, Inc. and has also held customer relationship consulting roles at Accenture. Throughout her career, Farley has worked to roll out successful software deployments to new and existing customers in enterprises that include large banking institutions and telecommunications companies. "Educating our customers with first-hand knowledge of how best to maximize the benefits of video is exciting work," said Farley. "Avistar has long understood how visual collaboration tools can profoundly change the workplace, and this knowledge -- transformed into practical recommendations -- is an invaluable asset to our customers." Once a customer decides to implement desktop video, Farley and her team work with the client to identify collaboration patterns within and between groups, ensuring that video is deployed to the right teams within an organization. After deployment of the Avistar solution, the adoption team continues to work with the client by providing ongoing training and benefits analysis. In today's global workplace, face-to-face communication across time zones and geography is an essential tool that helps dispersed teams solve business challenges. By supporting successful adoption of its easy-to-use, enterprise-class application, Avistar is helping customers achieve their goals: enable employees to boost productivity, reduce travel costs and improve collaboration through more effective, video-enabled communication. About Avistar Communications Corporation Avistar Communications Corporation develops, markets, and supports a video over-IP collaboration platform for the enterprise, all powered by the AvistarVOS[TM] software. From the desktop, Avistar delivers business-quality video calling, recording, publishing to web and e-mails, video-on-demand, broadcast origination and distribution, and document sharing. Avistar video-enables business processes by integrating visual communications into the daily workflow and connecting communities of users within and across enterprises. Founded in 1993, Avistar is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , with offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and London. Avistar's technology is used in more than 40 countries. Collaboration Properties, Inc Collaboration Properties, Inc. (CPI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avistar Communications Corporation. It holds US and foreign patents in the primary areas of presence-based interactions, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, . (CPI (1) (Characters Per Inch) The measurement of the density of characters per inch on tape or paper. A printer's CPI button switches character pitch. (2) (Counts Per I ) is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Avistar Communications Corporation. CPI develops patents for presence-based interactions, wireless communications, desktop video, recorded and live media at the desktop, multimedia documents, data sharing, and a service-rich video network architecture. It holds a current portfolio of 76 patents for inventions in the primary areas of video and network technology. CPI offers licenses to its patent portfolio and Avistar's video-enabling technologies to companies in the video conferencing, rich-media services, public networking, and related industries. Current licensees include Sony Corporation, Polycom, Inc., Tandberg ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and , Radvision and Emblaze-VCON. Copyright (c) 2007 Avistar Communications Corporation. All rights reserved. Avistar, AvistarVOS[TM], and the Avistar logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avistar Communications Corporation. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. |
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