Comverse Enhances Its Integrated Messaging Solution; Announces Message Broker and Integrated Messaging Client.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 -- Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Comverse Technology, Inc. (Pink Sheets: CMVT) is an American Technology company located in Woodbury, New York, which develops and markets telecommunications software. Founded in 1982, the company focuses on providing services to third party telecommunication service providers. , Inc. (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 : CMVT CMVT Converse Technology ), and the world's leading supplier of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communications services, today announced as part of its Integrated Messaging Solution two new products: the back-end Message Broker and the front-end Integrated Messaging Client. Comverse's Integrated Messaging Solution provides seamless messaging inter-working capabilities across various services, networks and devices. By deploying Comverse's Integrated Messaging, operators can drive increased usage of enhanced messaging services, thereby building revenue streams and subscriber loyalty, while leveraging operators' existing messaging services and infrastructures. These services along with other services from the Comverse Total Communication Portfolio are being demonstrated at 3GSM World Congress, February 13-16 in Barcelona, Spain at the Comverse stand (Hall 8, stand B12/13). Comverse Integrated Messaging provides an optimized and intuitive user experience by automatically selecting the optimal delivery method based on recipients' device and network capabilities, presence status, and pre-defined preferences. Senders are thus assured that their messages are in fact received, while recipients receive messages in the format most appropriate to their status and device capabilities. The newly announced Message Broker enables inter-working among messaging services - including SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. , MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. , email, voice messaging Using voice mail as an alternative to electronic mail, in which voice messages are intentionally recorded, not because the recipient was not available. , instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or (IM), and video - and across protocols. For example, Message Broker can transform and deliver a text message sent by SMS as a line of text within the recipient's PC-based IM session. Similarly, a voice message can be pushed to the recipient's PC or mobile handset. Comverse Integrated Messaging Client empowers a simple and intuitive user experience by providing a single interface for all messaging services and modes - be they pull, push or real-time sessions. For message senders, the client features a unified address book and single message composer that does not require their choosing a particular messaging technology. For message recipients, a single in-box for all message types simplifies message retrieval and display. The client's enhanced user interface, which operators may brand, increases subscriber satisfaction and loyalty. "Message Broker and Integrated Messaging Client provide value to operators by optimizing the user experience, guaranteeing message completion, and providing market differentiation to reduce churn," said Benny Einhorn, Chief Marketing Officer at Comverse. "With our new Integrated Messaging products, decades of messaging market leadership, a large IP installed base, and presence capabilities, Comverse is positioned to lead the evolution towards true Integrated Messaging." Integrated Messaging is a modular, evolutionary and flexible solution that leverages operators' existing messaging services and infrastructures. Operators may deploy Message Broker and Integrated Messaging Client either separately or together, while Integrated Messaging can be implemented as a stand-alone solution or as part of the Comverse InSight(TM) open services environment. The standards-based solution is also IMS-compliant, ensuring future-proof messaging migration to next-generation integrated networks. About Comverse Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), is the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communication services. These value-added enhanced services solutions, along with the company's real-time billing solutions, comprise the company's Total Communication portfolio. Comverse's Total Communication portfolio addresses four primary categories: call completion and call management solutions; advanced messaging for groups, communities and person-to-person communication; solutions and enablers for the management and delivery of data and content-based services; and real-time billing and account management solutions for dynamic service environments. Other Comverse Technology business units include: Verint Systems Verint Systems (Pink Sheets: VRNT) is a leading provider of analytic software and hardware based solutions for the security and business intelligence markets. See also
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