Chippewa Valley Schools Improve Response Time to Students and Parents with Objectworld Unified Communications Server.Reduces IT Costs for School District Serving over 16,000 Students and Staff OTTAWA -- Objectworld Communications Corp. today announced that Chippewa Valley Schools Chippewa Valley Schools is a school district located in Macomb County, Michigan. It contains several Elementary, Middle, and High Schools, with a total enrollment of over 14,000 students. has upgraded to Objectworld's 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. Server 4.2 to utilize the solution's latest features. 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. and automated notifications will now enable Chippewa to reduce IT administration costs and resources as well as improve response times to students and parents. As one of Michigan's fastest growing school districts, Chippewa Valley The Chippewa Valley was first inhabited by the Ojibwe Indians and settled by German and Scandinavian immigrants. The region also has a large Hmong community. While the term "Chippewa Valley" technically refers to the drainage basin of the Chippewa River and its tributaries, the serves more than 15,000 students in grades K-12 supported by 1,700 staff members across 22 buildings requiring the latest in unified communications to meet the needs of its students, parents, faculty and IT administration. By recently upgrading to Objectworld UC Server Standard Edition 4.2, Chippewa can take advantage of some of the new key enhancements including automated out-dialing that allows the school district to deliver information to staff and parents quickly by automated out-dial, for example, during snow days. "We were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a unified communications solution that could integrate with our existing digital system from AVAYA," said Robyn Oesterle, Network System Supervisor for Chippewa Valley Schools. "We needed a low cost platform that would add features and make it easier to manage the system over all. We looked at Cisco's UNITY product, but Objectworld and AVAYA's solution was more cost effective, less time consuming to manage, and a better fit for our existing infrastructure." Chippewa also needed unified messaging that provided simple integration with Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. for the staff that is constantly on-the-go during the day. By choosing Objectworld, Chippewa's staff will spend less time managing messages with the ability to check them from any location and be able to spend more time with students and parents instead. Objectworld's UC Server Standard Edition adds unified communications capabilities to legacy phone systems, including unified messaging, call control, point-and-click system administration using Microsoft Active Directory. The solution works with 95% of the existing North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. 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). market, including AVAYA, Cisco, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nortel, Mitel and Siemens PBX systems among others. "This is a great opportunity for Objectworld to help Chippewa's IT team to build their learning community and provide new learning tools," said David Levy David Levy may refer to:
About Objectworld Objectworld[TM] Communications Corp. provides unified communications software solutions that enable small- and medium-sized businesses with Microsoft[R] Windows[R] platforms to drive workforce productivity and improve organizational responsiveness. Its award-winning product, Objectworld UC Server[R], integrates business communications, business processes and corporate data to deliver a true communications enabled business process solution. Objectworld solutions provide unprecedented simplicity and value to businesses that want to make a smooth transition from simple telephony to a feature-rich unified communications solution, while leveraging their investment in their PBX and Microsoft business systems. For more information, please visit www.objectworld.com. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners. |
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