Tornado Development Delivers First Development Kit for Unified Messaging and Communications.Business/High-Tech Editors EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2001 Lightweight Development Kit (LDK LDK Lahn-Dill-Kreis (Germany) LDK Lidhja Demokratike e Kosoves (Albanian: Democratic Party of Kosovo) LDK Lemon Drop Kid (movie title, and musician) ) Reduces Time to Market for New Communications Applications and Services Tornado Development, a provider of unified messaging/communications (UM/UC) technology, today released its Lightweight Development Kit (LDK) for the company's Tornado Messenger(TM) platform. Tornado markets Tornado Messenger to telecommunications companies See telecom company. and wireless service providers. These providers deploy Tornado Messenger enabling global access to end-users for all of their messages from standard and cellular telephones, personal computers, Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
Tornado's LDK is the first development environment of its kind specifically designed for UM/UC. Tornado customers and third party developers can now rapidly create and deploy new applications and communication services on the Tornado Messenger platform. The LDK also greatly reduces the time it takes to integrate the Tornado Messenger engine with existing technologies, such as large-scale voice mail and e-mail systems. With the LDK, Tornado is providing an open, flexible development environment for UM/UC platforms, allowing telecommunications companies and wireless service providers to quickly and cost-efficiently satisfy the growing demand for advanced communications and messaging services. "There is a tremendous need among service providers to decrease the amount of time and resources it takes to develop new communications services, so they can focus on generating new revenues, rather than back-end development," says Kevin Torf, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and founder of Tornado Development. "By opening application development to all parties, Tornado is delivering tools to customers and the industry at large, to use the power of 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. to expand their businesses." The LDK's software libraries provide 80 percent of the code required to develop new Lightweight Translation Services (LWTS LWTS London West Training Services (UK) ) software gateways, or "lightweights." Lightweights -- key to the power and flexibility of the Tornado architecture -- handle the communication between various types of messages, media or transactions and the Tornado Messenger UM/UC engine. For example, Lightweights convert incoming messages such as voice mail, e-mail, pager, fax or video mail into neutral objects, making them accessible and manageable by any device or application within a UM/UC service. Now, using the LDK, Tornado customers and developers can quickly develop and integrate new features and functionality into UM/UC services. For example, the LDK facilitates incorporation of content delivery, such as a streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. voice portal An interactive voice response (IVR) front end to a data retrieval system. This does not differ in core technology from traditional IVR; rather, the difference is in the application presented. Where old-style IVR was mostly a routing application (press 1 for sales, 2 for service, etc. application, into a UM/UC service. Or, a service provider could use the LDK to include e-commerce transactions within a UM/UC application, so sales orders The sales order, sometimes abbreviated as SO, is an order received by a business from a customer. A sales order may be for products and/or services. Given the wide variety of businesses, this means that the orders can be fulfilled in several ways. can be initiated, accessed and managed via multiple messaging devices. In addition, service providers can use the LDK to integrate legacy voice mail or e-mail systems with Tornado Messenger, preserving previous infrastructure investments. By providing a flexible development environment with the LDK, Tornado opens its platform to customization and empowers service providers to launch innovative services and build new revenue channels. "Tornado's LDK delivers reusable development components that help cut the time normally associated with developing UM applications," said Ian Collins Ian Collins may refer to:
About Tornado Development Founded in 1995, Tornado Development is the developer and marketer of Tornado Messenger, the only carrier-grade Unified Messaging engine that offers a single, flexible system for ISPs, portals, ASPs, telcos, and wireless providers. The company specializes in flexible business models including (1) Tornado-based hosting agreements, (2) partial licensing agreements, and (3) full UM licensing agreements. Tornado allows service providers easy entry into the UM market and efficient migration from a hosting environment See hosted environment. to complete ownership of an UM system. Tornado Powered Unified Messaging answers all software, hardware, customization and installation needs, with emphasis on reliability, cost-effectiveness and customer servicing. For more information about Tornado Messenger, visit www.TornadoDevelopment.com. To experience Tornado Powered unified messaging free of charge, visit www.tems.com. |
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