AVST and Mirapoint Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver Unified Messaging Solutions to Education and Enterprise Markets
Companies Team at Annual ACUTA Tradeshow to Showcase Product Line Roadmap
LAS VEGAS, Nev., July 15, 2008 – Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) and Mirapoint today announce a strategic partnership to address the growing demand for scalable and secure unified messaging solutions. The marketing and technology alliance will integrate AVST’s CallXpress® Unified Communications platform with Mirapoint’s Message Server, to provide the industry’s most scalable and cost-effective unified messaging platform. Through the alliance, Mirapoint will provide AVST’s best-in-class unified messaging solution to its new and existing customers. Likewise, AVST will market Mirapoint’s award-winning e-mail solution to customers looking for an alternative to their legacy e-mail platforms.
With many legacy voice mail and e-mail solutions at or near end of life, customers are seeking proven technology partners like AVST and Mirapoint to deliver next generation communications solutions that meet their requirements for interoperability, reliability, scalability and economics. With over 500 combined customers in the Higher Education market globally, AVST and Mirapoint will showcase the new partnership this week at AVST’s booth at the Association of Information Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) annual tradeshow at
According to Hardy Myers, AVST’s President & CEO, “We have taken great care to develop a product line that is optimized for the education sector and we’re pleased to partner with Mirapoint. This partnership is a direct response to an expressed need by our mutual customers for unified messaging solutions that interoperate seamlessly and leverage an existing communications infrastructure. Mirapoint shares our vision for collaboration, efficiency and security in enterprise communications.”
With over 40,000 systems deployed worldwide, AVST’s flagship product, CallXpress, delivers the most extensive telephony and groupware interoperability available on the market today. CallXpress is uniquely designed to help customers deploy next generation communications capabilities, like unified messaging, across a heterogeneous and transitioning technology infrastructure. The CallXpress unified messaging solution helps colleges and universities become more productive; faculty and staff can manage voice, fax and e-mail messages from any location at any time via laptop, telephone, cell phone or the Internet.
Mirapoint’s Message Server™ is the industry’s first and most reliable appliance-based secure messaging solution with over 120,000,000 mailboxes deployed worldwide. The Message Server provides e-mail access, routing, storage, archiving and rich collaboration with 99.999 percent reliability and the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Mirapoint delivers secure, integrated messaging solutions that enhance communication by eliminating messaging threats, fragmented infrastructures, poor performance and network attacks.
“Not only do we share a common vision in our technology approach, but the vertical markets that we serve are also complementary,” stated Jeff Witous, Mirapoint’s CEO. “Higher education, healthcare, insurance, financial services and government are all high priorities for Mirapoint and AVST. The ACUTA tradeshow this week is our first opportunity to jointly address one of these markets and we’re looking forward to the response we receive from this very important market segment.”
AVST and Mirapoint can be located at the AVST booth #613 from July 13-17 at
About Mirapoint Software
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint Software is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 120 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages e-mail. Mirapoint is headquartered in
About AVST
The typical enterprise communications infrastructure is made up of a collection of technologies from multiple vendors, acquired over time and never intended to work together. To maximize user and business productivity, while leveraging existing IT investments, interoperability is a must.
AVST delivers the industry's most interoperable Unified Communications (UC) platform that brings best-of-breed voice, mobility and business process solutions to the enterprise. Unlike virtually every other UC vendor, AVST does not constrain customers with a single vendor lock-in approach. In fact, it's the very opposite. By connecting new and existing technologies, AVST frees organizations from the constraints of a closed, single-source UC solution, unlocking the full potential of their communications infrastructure.
With over 15 million users worldwide and three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is unifying communications®.
Headquartered in Orange County, California, AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Washington, Victoria B.C., Canada and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's UC solutions are sold and supported worldwide by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. To learn more about AVST, our products and partners, please visit www.avst.com or you can follow us at Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
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