Norstan Teams With Lotus and AVT to Offer Unified Messaging Solutions.Business Editors MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 2000 Norstan Inc. (Nasdaq: NRRD NRRD National Royal Rangers Department (international ministry) ) has entered into an agreement with IBM's Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC. Disliked by the League for Programming Freedom on account of their lawsuits. Quarterly sales $224M, profits $10M (Aug 1994). and AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. Corporation to offer 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. solutions to customers. The solutions, which emanate from a global strategic alliance between Lotus and AVT, include Lotus Domino Release 5 server, Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. Release 5 client and CallXpress, the award-winning AVT unified messaging solution. "Combining AVT CallXpress with the Lotus Domino server and our market-leading groupware solutions, allows users to access all message types, voice, fax and e-mail, from virtually any device, including at the desktop PC, the telephone or a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. ," said Jean Gill, director of Channels, Lotus Partner Organization, Lotus Development Corp. "We are pleased that the Norstan sales force will be joining us to market these innovative product solutions. With Norstan's access to an extensive client base and its all-encompassing professional solutions, we fully expect new clients will be added to our more than 56 million users of Notes and Domino." The Notes and Domino versions of CallXpress deliver advanced unified message functions, such as a single message store, a single address book for addressing all message types, and ActiveX controls for managing voice and fax messages from the Notes client. The product uses industry standard voice processing The computerized handling of voice, which includes voice store and forward, voice response, voice recognition and text to speech technologies. hardware from market-leader Dialogic, an Intel company and strategic business partner of both Lotus and AVT. New releases are planned for incorporating a telephone user interface for managing Notes-based calendaring and scheduling and the development of integrated personal call management applications. "Norstan has earned a reputation as a solution-provider with an extensive portfolio of advanced technology products and services to address the needs of customers, " said Larry Schmidt, Norstan vice president, Advanced Solutions Group. "This new relationship with Lotus and AVT will enlarge our offerings significantly on several fronts. It will provide the latest in combined groupware and unified messaging in the Norstan Advanced Solutions Group. It will be a key offering in the company's Advanced Services Group Unified Media practice that provides professional consulting and technology integration services for unified media applications. In the process," continued Schmidt, "this relationship will allow us to better serve our current customers." AVT Corporation (Nasdaq: AVTC AVTC Antivirus Test Center (informatics, University of Hamburg) AVTC Automatic Vehicular Traffic Control ) is a world leader in Managed Communications solutions, helping organizations control and meet the high demands of their communication workflow. AVT has over 50,000 systems installed worldwide, with 80% of the Fortune 100 using the company's award-winning products and services. AVT is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. It is a suburb of Seattle located on the Eastside (of Lake Washington). As of April 1, 2005, the city had an estimated population of 45,740, making Kirkland the eighth largest city in King County and the eighteenth and has main offices in Tucson, AZ, Portland, OR and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA. In addition, AVT has sales and support offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, Dubai and Tokyo. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.avtc.com Norstan Inc. is a global leader in technology services providing information technology, convergence services and communication solutions to business clients worldwide. Headquartered in the Twin Cities, Norstan sales and consulting service offices are located in 80 cities throughout North America and Europe. Through its operating units Norstan is a single source provider of leading-edge technology solutions, world-class technology services and competitive financial offerings. For more information, visit the Norstan Web site at www.norstan.com. Norstan and associated product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Norstan Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Lotus, Lotus Notes are registered trademarks and Notes, Domino are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) is a registered trademark of IBM Corp. All other products and services mentioned in this document may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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