BlueNote Networks Unveils SessionSuite SOA Edition.Business Communications Platform Harnesses the Business Value of SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. for Telephony Services and Applications TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- BlueNote Networks, the leading provider of Business Communications Platforms for delivering real-time interactive communications as services in a Service Oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. Architecture (SOA), today announced the availability of two new products in its SessionSuite(TM) product family: SessionSuite SOA Edition and SessionSuite Desktop. SessionSuite SOA Edition is a software platform that delivers voice and video communication services as distributed, re-usable Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , allowing enterprises to build and deploy innovative communications-enabled business applications. SessionSuite Desktop is a Windows-based client application that delivers integrated voice capabilities to a desktop or notebook personal computer, and can augment a companion desk phone or mobile phone. IT organizations are embracing SOAs to deliver agile IT application infrastructures that allow them to easily adapt to changing business requirements. In comparison, enterprise telephony infrastructures have not advanced with the same level of innovation, and remain inflexible, stand-alone, proprietary and hardware-centric. SessionSuite SOA Edition enables organizations to drive similar business benefits from telephony services that they realize today from data applications, by leveraging the distributed software applications architecture of an SOA - where services are built once and shared across many applications. With this approach, enterprises benefit from the ability to quickly and easily leverage re-usable voice and video services for new business opportunities, with reduced development time and costs. Using flexible, standards-based Web Services that can be called upon from any remote software application over any network, BlueNote allows business analysts, application developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to easily add SIP-controlled voice and video services to any business process, application or Web site. "As a business focused on delivering software applications to the hospitality and ground transportation industry, it's extremely important to find ways to evolve and enhance these applications for our target market," says Mark Ustik, 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. of The Hudson Group LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . "SessionSuite SOA Edition allows us to integrate telephony services into these applications using simple and easy-to-understand Web Service APIs without the need for specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. telephony expertise in-house - helping us to stay ahead of our competitors, and save valuable time and money in development." SessionSuite SOA Edition software provides rich telephony services for an extended enterprise, while integrating with existing IT and telecommunications infrastructure. SessionSuite SOA Edition, with the accompanying SessionSuite Software Developer Kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ), exposes these communication services through a set of Web Service APIs that shield developers from the complexities of the underlying communications infrastructure and provides a platform-independent, language-neutral set of tools for fast, flexible and re-usable application development. In addition, SOA Edition provides a unique developer plug-in framework that allows external business logic to affect call handling. For example, routing an incoming call to a user's mobile phone or another extension based on information in their calendar application, thus improving personal productivity and reachability. Application data can also follow a phone call, allowing contextual information to be transparently transferred and shared across multiple applications - especially useful for call center applications. "Most enterprises treat telephony services differently than information services See Information Systems. , even though voice interactions are involved in almost all business processes," said Tom Burkardt, president & CEO, BlueNote Networks. "SessionSuite SOA Edition is the next phase of our innovative software solutions for Global 2000 enterprises, allowing these organizations to gain significant business value by deploying voice, video and other interactive communication services as an integral part of their existing IT applications infrastructure." To complement SessionSuite SOA Edition software, SessionSuite Desktop is an intuitive client application that integrates voice capabilities with a native Windows(R) environment, enabling users to place and receive telephone calls directly from popular Windows applications A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. with a single mouseclick. It also supports companion phone control, allowing a user to leverage an existing or favorite handset The part of the telephone that contains the speaker and the microphone. On a desktop phone, the part you hold in your hand is the handset. On a cellphone, the entire phone is the handset. See multihandset cordless and headset. , such as a desk phone or mobile phone, and is designed for easy and rapid deployment with centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management and administration. "The BlueNote SessionSuite software products enable enterprises to take what has been to date expensive and complex integrations between proprietary telephony interfaces and enterprise applications, and make them faster, simpler and more flexible," said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink. "BlueNote leverages the benefits of SOA and integrated telephony services to provide exceptional value for the enterprise." SessionSuite SOA Edition and accompanying SDK is available this month. The SessionSuite SDK includes developer documentation, WSDLs, sample code and a developer version of SessionSuite SOA Edition. SessionSuite Desktop is generally available today. About BlueNote Networks BlueNote Networks is driving the integration of real-time interactive communications with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) by delivering the first enterprise-class Business Communications Platform: SessionSuite(TM). BlueNote Networks combines the preeminent pre·em·i·nent or pre-em·i·nent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. See Synonyms at dominant, noted. [Middle English, from Latin prae features of Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP) with Web Services to drive innovation while radically lowering the cost and complexity of enterprise voice, video and data services. Its SessionSuite software products form the foundation enabling globally-reachable services and integrated workflow applications A workflow application is where various applications, components and people must be involved in the processing of data to complete an instance of a process. For example, consider a purchase order that moves through various departments for authorization and eventual purchase. , while leveraging an existing IT infrastructure. BlueNote Networks is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts Tewksbury (pronounced IPA: /ˈtʊksbɛriː, ˈtʊksbriː/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 28,851 at the 2000 census. . For more information, visit www.bluenotenetworks.com. |
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