AmVia picks a winner

AmVia, specialists in mobile messaging solutions, has announced the signing of a distribution agreement with XIAM, a software development company focusing on wireless Internet technology.

Using specific selection criteria established to identify best of breed products in the mobile messaging space, AmVia identified the XIAM Information Router as the best product of its kind, utilising cost-effective SMS technology. It is the only fully bi-directional Enterprise SMS communications platform on the market today.

AmVia will distribute the XIAM Information Router, which allows for the intelligent and secure bi-directional routing of information between an enterprise and its mobile users via SMS and WAP. It also provides access to information (databases, Web, e-mail, system management) from any location.

Says Robyn Grobbelaar, Chief Growth Officer for AmVia: "The XIAM Information Router is the premier Enterprise SMS platform in the global marketplace and AmVia is very proud to have been chosen as XIAM`s Southern African distributor."

In today`s economy it is essential that corporations streamline their communications methods, and SMS is the perfect medium to use for this. The benefits of the product include savings on telephone bills, improving productivity via instant access to real-time back-end information, increasing enterprise server uptime via system monitoring and improving customer response times via e-mail notification. Combine these factors and the return on investment for the XIAM Information Router becomes very easy to demonstrate.

Colm Healy, XIAM`s Chief Operating Officer, comments: "We are delighted to announce our partnership with AmVia. AmVia is a key player in SA and is an ideal partner for bringing all the potentials of the XIAM Information Router to the Southern African market."

Terence Davie, SETI launch leader, further comments: "The uptake of this awesome product in Europe has been phenomenally quick and we are confident that the XIAM Information Router will be received with just as much enthusiasm in the Southern African marketplace. The intense interest shown in the product by delegates at AmVia`s recent Mobile Messaging launch is proof enough to me that this is going to be a winner for our business partners as well as their customers."