Dictaphone Corporation and AVT Extend Strategic Agreement to Deliver Windows NT-Based Unified Messaging.KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 1998--AVT Corporation (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 :AVTC AVTC Antivirus Test Center (informatics, University of Hamburg) AVTC Automatic Vehicular Traffic Control ) and Dictaphone Corporation (Stratford, Conn.) today announced that the two companies have extended 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 to now encompass Dictaphone marketing the AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. family of Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R)-based 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 computer telephony See CTI, VoIP and IP telephony. Computer Telephony - Computer Telephone Integration products. This agreement follows the previously formed OEM partnership between the two companies in which Dictaphone markets CallXpress(R), AVT's OS/2-based unified messaging platform, under the name of synergy.cti(TM). The Windows NT-based platform will be marketed under the name of synergy.nti. Dictaphone will market and support synergy.nti in the U.S. through its nationwide direct sales and service organizations. synergy.nti is part of Dictaphone's suite of Integrated Voice and Data Management solutions, and is primarily targeted at the legal, health care, financial, insurance, and public safety markets. synergy.nti provides unified messaging solutions that allow users to retrieve and manage all of their messages -- voice, fax and email -- from either a telephone or personal computer using a single set of commands. In a single call from any touch-tone phone in the world, users can listen to their voice messages, listen to their email messages, which are converted to speech, and forward any fax or email message to the fax machine of their choice. The graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to of this unified messaging application allows users to view all of their messages on their PC screen and view the length and type of each message, all from within the Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook or AVT email-independent client inbox. synergy.nti exploits all of the administration and scalability benefits inherent with Windows NT server. synergy.nti also offers such features as desktop call management and information access automation. Some other key features include: Year 2000 Compliance. synergy.nti correctly recognizes dates after Dec. 31, 1999, and correctly processes those dates in internal algorithms, databases and reports. Support for Microsoft Outlook. Users of Microsoft Outlook can conveniently manage voice, fax and email messages, all from within the Microsoft Outlook interface. Support for VPIM (Voice Profile for Internet Mail) A method for encoding voice mail messages as data so they can travel via the SMTP mail protocol over IP networks. VPIM uses MIME to encode messages in multiple parts, which are decoded by VPIM-compliant voice mail systems at Digital Networking. NetConnect, AVT's digital networking module, allows users to exchange voice and fax messages with users of other 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. systems across the Internet or corporate intranet, using the Voice Profile for Internet Mail (VPIM) protocol. With NetConnect, users can send voice and fax messages to users in other locations, eliminating the long distance charge associated with analog transmissions. Enhanced Fax Services. synergy.nti incorporates the award-winning Windows NT-based fax server of AVT subsidiary, RightFAX(R). The integration of synergy.nti and the RightFAX fax server delivers fax functionality beyond that provided by other telephony-based fax products and other stand-alone, LAN-based fax servers. Interactive Voice Response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ). When implemented simultaneously with the synergy.nti unified messaging server, AVT's Automated Agent for Windows NT IVR applications can enhance functionality such as fax-on-demand, voice messaging and call management. Dictaphone is a leader in the development, manufacturing, marketing, service and support of Integrated Voice and Data Management (IVDM IVDM Integrated Voice and Data Multiplexer )(TM) systems and software, which include dictation, voice processing, voice response, unified messaging, records management and communications recording. Dictaphone has a worldwide marketing, sales, service and support organization of more than 1,600 representatives in more than 190 U.S. cities, the Unified Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, France and Italy, and dedicated dealers in 40 other countries. Company sales revenues in 1997 were approximately $340 million. For more information about synergy.nti or other Dictaphone products, visit us on the Internet at http://www.dictaphone.com or by calling 888.ivdm.com (888/483-6266). AVT Corporation develops, manufactures, markets and supports a broad line of open systems-based advanced computer telephony products, specializing in fax and call processing, unified messaging, and call center productivity and customer service, sold worldwide through affiliated distributed and dealers. AVT is headquartered in Kirkland, Wash., USA, and has offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong and Dubai. In addition, AVT has two wholly owned subsidiaries 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. -- RightFAX Inc., based in Tucson, Ariz., and CommercePath Inc., based in Portland, Ore. Founded in 1982, AVT is publicly traded under the symbol "AVTC" on the Nasdaq National Market. AVT maintains a site on the World Wide Web at www.avtc.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: News releases are available from AVT's Newsroom fax server. Call 425/820-4089 and follow the prompts. This is document number 77097. News releases can also be found on AVT's World Wide Web site at www.avtc.com. CallXpress3 and CallXpress for Windows NT are registered trademarks of AVT Corporation. synergy is a trademark of Dictaphone. Windows NT is a registered trademark and Outlook is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Other products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.
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