Captaris Announces Agreement with Conita To Provide Voice-Enabled Access to Critical Business Information.Business Editors, Hi-Tech Writers KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2001 Mobile Users To Benefit From Productive, Intuitive Information Access Captaris, Inc. (Nasdaq: CAPA CAPA California Alternate Performance Assessment CAPA Captaris, Inc (stock symbol) CAPA Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants CAPA Creative and Performing Arts (school) ), a leading provider of 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. and mobile business solutions, today announced an original equipment manufacturer (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) agreement with Conita Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of voice-driven technology for mobile productivity. The agreement makes Conita's Personal Virtual Assistant (PVA PVA polyvinyl alcohol. ) platform software available to Captaris for building enhanced applications with all Captaris products: unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. , unified communications, mobile wireless applications and e-document delivery. Speech access to corporate messages and databases is a critical part of Captaris' strategy to provide modular and scalable unified communications and mobile business solutions. The Conita .V(TM) technology platform allows Captaris to take advantage of the latest speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies by providing an advanced speech development platform. Captaris has enlisted Conita to develop features and applications to allow users to access and manage voicemail, email, fax, contact lists, calendar information and corporate data from any phone, using simple voice commands. Current Captaris products offer wireless, wired and network access to messaging, groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. and other enterprise applications (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. , legacy data, etc). "It is clear users want convenience and an intuitive interface when it comes to accessing critical business information, which is why Captaris products have been so successful. Our aim in incorporating Conita's .V technology with Captaris products is to extend more convenience and productivity to mobile corporate users than ever before," said Stephen Seavecki, vice president of product management at Captaris. "With Captaris' strong market presence and Conita's focus on providing technology for mobile productivity, the mobile workforce can now have a single voice interface providing just-in-time access to information," said Tom Militello, co-founder and chief strategy officer for Conita. "This partnership will empower the mobile workforce with solutions that span both unified communications and remote information access." "Companies must move to multi-modal interfaces (e.g., browsers, microbrowsers, speech technologies) to enable the widest access capabilities for both internal users and consumers," says Jack Gold, vice president, META Group. " Indeed, we expect the move towards alternative interfaces to accelerate over the next one to two years, as access points change from predominately PC browser oriented, to more widely encompassing pervasive devices such as PDAs, smart phones, on-board On board usually means to be traveling on some vehicle. For example, Baby On Board. Compare with overboard. Metaphorically, the term on-board is often used to refer to some piece of technology that is integrated in a moving vehicle, for example: The Captaris family of products built on Conita technology will be called Captaris Speech and will be used in conjunction with CallXpress, Infinite Mobile Delivery, RightFax and MediaLinq. About Captaris Captaris is a leading provider of unified communications and mobile business solutions that allow companies to improve business communications with customers, partners and employees. The company provides access to and control of critical business information from almost any communications device Typically refers to a terminal used to send voice, video or text. Mobile phones, wireless PDAs and personal computers equipped with microphones, speakers and cameras are all considered communications devices. See modem. and enhances communications workflow by improving the way in which company stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. exchange information. The company specializes in developing and marketing CallXpress unified messaging, RightFax fax and communications servers See network access server, modem server, terminal server and communications controller. (operating system) Communications Server - IBM's rebranding of ACF. , MediaLinq electronic document delivery services and Infinite Mobile Delivery products. Captaris has more than 75,000 systems installed and over one million users worldwide, with 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies using the company's award winning products and services. Founded in 1982, Captaris is publicly traded under the symbol "CAPA" on the Nasdaq National Market. Captaris maintains a site on the World Wide Web at www.captaris.com. About Conita Technologies Conita Technologies (pronounced kah-night-ah) is the innovator of voice-driven m-productivity(TM) (mobile productivity) solutions for the enterprise. With Conita's PVA (Personal Virtual Assistant) software, mobile workers recover lost time while on the go using any phone. Conita enhances the utilization of and investment in business application software, corporate and web-based data stores, enterprise messaging, and communication systems. More information is available at www.conita.com or by calling 1.888.515.6200. Captaris is a trademark of Captaris, Inc. 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