PhoneSoft and VSI Fuse Technologies; Unified Messaging and Integrated Fax Leaders Establish Pure Lotus Notes Messaging Solution for the Enterprise.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2000 For More Information, Visit VSI's Lotusphere Booth Number B75, or PhoneSoft's Booth Number C153 PhoneSoft Inc. (San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. ) and VSI VSI Vinyl Siding Institute VSI Voltage Source Inverter VSI Virtual Switch Interface VSI Vertical Speed Indicator VSI Voluntary Separation Incentive VSI Virtual Socket Interface VSI Vision Systems International VSI Vertical Shaft Impactor (V-Systems Inc., San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano (săn wän kăpĭsträ`nō), city (1990 pop. 26,183), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1961. San Juan Capistrano has some manufactures, including aircraft parts, medical apparatus, and boats, but the economy is , Calif.) Sunday announced the global roll-out of a pure Notes 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. solution for 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 (R5). PhoneSoft's Unified Messaging for Lotus Notes product, in its newest release, supports VSI's VSI-FAX for Notes 3.0.1. The combination of features offered in each company's products addresses the worldwide market demand for unified messaging with fax capabilities for enterprise-wide communications. VSI-FAX for Notes is recommended by PhoneSoft as the enterprise fax solution for PhoneSoft's unified messaging product because of its pure Notes integration tools, ease of administration and reliability. "VSI-FAX for Notes provides the key fax component for providing a comprehensive unified messaging system in the Lotus Notes and Domino markets, which directly addresses the needs of our customers," said John Wirfel, president of PhoneSoft. "VSI's and PhoneSoft's reseller channels will directly benefit by the combined technologies designed to provide customers with a superior unified messaging solution," said Mitch Baxter, president of VSI. "VSI-FAX for Notes is a proven pure Notes fax solution for the enterprise, with integration tools unavailable in other network fax products." Lotus Notes users requiring integrated and desktop unified messaging to automate business communications with customers, suppliers and trading partners can use any device at any time to access messages with PhoneSoft's system, making it ideal for manufacturing, distribution, hospitality, healthcare management, and many other industries. "We discovered that VSI has created the best pure Notes fax solution for the Lotus Notes environment," said Bill Silver, president of NuTech Integrated Systems (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 ). "The ability to combine VSI-FAX for Notes with PhoneSoft's voice mail and other unified messaging features allows our customers to efficiently manage their messaging from one place. This saves time and increases overall productivity." Pricing and Availability A free downloadable trial version of PhoneSoft's unified messaging software is available from the PhoneSoft Web site at http://www.phonesoft.com. PhoneSoft Unified Messaging for Lotus Notes systems are sold on a per port, unlimited user basis. Two port starter systems are available in a Lotusphere promotion for $2995. To request a quote or to place an order, call 858/618-1900. PhoneSoft unified messaging products run on 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. and support all versions of Lotus Notes and Domino. All phone systems and 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). are supported, and the product scales to any size company, large or small. International versions are also available in most major languages. About Unified Messaging for Lotus Notes PhoneSoft's Unified Messaging for Lotus Notes is the leading unified messaging, voice mail, auto attendant The part of an interactive voice response (IVR) system that replaces the human operator and directs callers to the appropriate extensions or voice mailboxes. See IVR. , and e-mail reader See e-mail program. solution for the Lotus Notes and Domino market. New features include text-to-speech conversion technology, which reads e-mail text messages over the phone using the first available truly human-sounding voice. In addition, voice messages are now highly compressed WAV Files taking up about 20K for a typical message. New call logging & statistics have been added, as well as new call pursuit, call screening, and missed call A missed call is when a cell phone user calls another and cuts off deliberately before the called party has a chance to pick up the call. Missed calls are used to notify another person of the caller's presence or to conveniently obtain a person's cellphone number. notification capabilities. About VSI-FAX for Notes In addition to complete Lotus Notes R5 compatibility, VSI-FAX for Notes 3.0.1 includes single seat administration of fax servers worldwide through Lotus databases. The benefit to R5 users and other organizations is a reduction in overall fax costs, lower total cost of ownership through Notes-based centralized administration, and a single fax solution for the entire enterprise. VSI-FAX for Notes also offers integration features include native imaging of Notes forms, the implementation of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. technology, e-mail to fax gateways, and an autosend directory. For a Notes user, sending a fax is as easy as sending any e-mail message. About VSI VSI (V-Systems, Inc.) is a leading developer of broad e-commerce and integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. fax solutions, including the new Breeze Commerce Studio. The company's flagship fax software line, VSI-FAX, is backed by more than 30,000 installations worldwide. VSI also creates and markets other whole product fax solutions including VSI-FAX for Notes and VSI-FAX for Baan. For more information, call 800/556-4874 (United States and Canada), 949/489-8778 (worldwide), or visit the company's Web site at http://www.vsi.com. About PhoneSoft PhoneSoft has headquarters in San Diego, with international operations based in Monte-Carlo. PhoneSoft offers the only complete unified messaging and telephony suite integrating any Lotus Notes application with any telephone system. Founded by the inventors and developers of Lotus Phone Notes, PhoneSoft is dedicated to providing the most advanced solutions for Lotus Notes unified messaging and telephony applications. PhoneSoft customers range from Fortune 500 companies to medium sized and small businesses, and span all market segments. Both Lotus Development and 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) use PhoneSoft products at a number of locations. PhoneSoft is also used by many Lotus Notes business partners. The company can be reached at 858/618-1900, or visit their Web site at http://www.phonesoft.com. |
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