Represented exclusively in South Africa by Centratel, Active Voice, a global provider of unified messaging (UM), unified communications (UC) and speech-activated solutions, has announced successful year-in-review results for 2007.
2007 saw Active Voice continue to innovate and evolve the UM and UC landscape, by equipping enterprises with cutting-edge business communications tools and by expanding its customer portfolio to capture market share in the hospitality, education and government industries.
Two significant analyst reports released in 2007 confirmed Active Voice as a market leader in its industry. The Telecom Intelligence Group (TIG) published a report in August 2007 called InfoTrack for Converged Applications (ICA) Full Year 2006 North America and Global Messaging Reports. This report positioned Active Voice as the third leading UM provider for messaging systems shipped in North America and fourth leading UM provider for UM mailboxes shipped globally.
Active Voice was also named by enterprise decision-makers as a leading UC vendor of choice for global businesses, according to an IntelliCom Market Dashboard Alert also published in August 2007 by IntelliCom Analytics and TMCNet.
"This year marked our 25th anniversary in the unified messaging space and we celebrated throughout the year with milestone achievements such as 200 000 systems shipped. These milestones solidify our proven track record as a breakthrough innovator in the UM and UC marketplace - alongside key players such as Microsoft, Avaya, and Cisco," said Victor Foia, President and CEO of Active Voice.
"Unified messaging continues to evolve as businesses look for new and better ways to communicate, and we see many opportunities to bring advanced innovation to the forefront of customers, especially those who will be transitioning from legacy systems into unified messaging and eventually to unified communications," said Wernher Lotter, sales director, Centravoice, a member of the Centratel Group of companies.
"As veterans in this explosive market, Active Voice will continue to see increased momentum and greater impact as we move into 2008," continued Lotter.
Throughout last year, Active Voice launched major technology advancements, such as the first-of-its kind VideoMail for UM through its enterprise solution, *Kinesis 3.0, as well as Repartee 10.0. The release of Kinesis 3.0 for enterprises and Repartee 10.0 for small-to-mid size businesses (SMEs) solidified the company's innate ability to differentiate itself from other providers. For example, Active Voice's cutting-edge VideoMail technology enables users to create and deliver video messages and screen captures by e-mail.
Also within Repartee 10.0, key new features include accessibility to voicemail via RSS Feeds; retrieval of voicemail, fax and e-mail from any communication device using Microsoft Outlook, iGoogle or Apple iTunes; ActiveSuite Client Applications; and Smartphone PDA support.
"Active Voice certainly saw a milestone year full of significant business highlights that have increased their value proposition," added Lotter.
"Moving into 2008, many businesses are approaching the end of their legacy messaging system life cycle and we expect substantial growth in the UM market over the next two years. We look forward to providing these customers migration solutions that meet their business communication needs," concluded Lotter.
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The Centratel Group, consisting of three companies, namely Centrafin, Centravoice and Masakhe, is the largest telecommunications distributor in Africa. The group is committed to the distribution of telecommunications voice and data hardware and software, ICT finance and ICT implementation, and specialist financing of ICT products and services in sub-Saharan Africa.
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