AVST Hosts Educational Webinar on the Business Drivers for Unified Communications

Company to Address Question: “Can Unified Communications Really Help Businesses?”

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., September 29, 2008 – Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) today announced that it has teamed with VoiceCon to deliver an educational Webinar titled, “Business Drivers for Unified Communications Adoption."  The Webinar will take place Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT. 

The industry buzz surrounding Unified Communications is hard to ignore, but the question remains: Can Unified Communications really help businesses?  Increasingly, enterprise technology managers are being called upon to make investments with a rapid and assured return on investment, and this Webinar will highlight how taking a unified approach to communications can add value throughout a corporate enterprise.

Topics to be explored during the Webinar include:  Unified Communications market trends and business benefits, how Unified Communications can improve processes and reduce costs and the steps to consider when selecting a Unified Communications platform. Additionally, Webinar speakers will present brand new data that describes the key drivers that prompt enterprises to deploy Unified Communications solutions.

“Unified Communications can bring substantial benefits that positively impact costs, revenues and customer satisfaction,” said Denny Michael, AVST’s Vice President of Marketing.  “Our Webinars are a key element in our commitment to educate end users about how to unify communications, especially in enterprise environments where flexible solutions are key.”

The Webinar will be moderated by Eric Krapf, Co-chair of VoiceCon, who serves as Editor and lead blogger for the website No Jitter (www.nojitter.com), the online community for news and analysis of the enterprise convergence/Unified Communications industry.  In addition, the Webinar will feature Irwin Lazar, Principal Analyst and Program Director for Unified Communications and collaboration at Nemertes Research and Mike Berlin, Vice President of Business Development for AVST.  

The hour-long session will be interactive in nature, with audience polls and ample time allotted for Q&A from the audience.  Attendees will leave the session with an understanding of what is driving businesses to adopt Unified Communications, and how these same drivers may be at work in their own enterprise.

To register for the "Business Drivers for Unified Communications Adoption," Webinar please visit:  www.avst.com/r/vc4.asp.

About AVST
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of communications solutions for businesses of all sizes. Through its world-class unified communications platform, CallXpress®, AVST offers the industry's most powerful suite of second generation communications solutions including advanced call processing, voice messaging, unified messaging, fax, notification, and speech-enabled personal assistant (including automated attendant and hands-free mobile worker access).

The CallXpress Unified Communications platform is designed to facilitate the enterprise migration from legacy TDM call processing and voice mail solutions to IP-enabled unified communications by delivering the interoperability, scalability, feature depth and flexibility, and administrative capabilities that enterprise IT and Telecom teams are demanding.

Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices across the United States. With over 40,000 systems installed worldwide, AVST's unified communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.