Siemens announces OpenScape. (Product News).The Enterprise Networks division of Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Siemens AG Siemens AG German electrical-equipment manufacturer. The first Siemens company, Siemens & Halske, was founded in Berlin in 1847 to build telegraph installations. , has announced its OpenScape software suite version 1.0 for real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. communications and collaboration. The OpenScape solution is a SIP-based, open application designed to provide users with -- consolidated access to all enterprise communication resources, including voice features and services, e-mail, 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 and multi-resource collaboration, The OpenScape suite operates independent of the voice communications platform, leveraging the forthcoming Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Server 2003 and Microsoft's Greenwich platform By bridging gaps between communication islands, the OpenScape solution was designed to surpass current 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. applications, which can make it possible, for example, to listen to e-mail through text-to-speech applications or initiate a simple phone call via a click on the PC screen. In contrast, the OpenScape solution was designed to take unified communications to the next level, offering intelligent, real-time, presence-based access to people, calendars and files through three new capabilities: presence-based communication, multi-resource collaboration and an open application architecture. www.siemens.com |
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