AmVia- Voicematix today announced the availability of its METAmessage for Wireless offerings, the industry`s first solution that allow users to quickly and easily read and print their e-mail attachments - and receive faxes - using remote wireless devices.
AmVia says that METAmessage increases productivity by letting mobile users remotely access and act on attachments - which often contain business-critical information such as contracts and contact information - in much the same manner as they would from their desktop.
The newly available offerings include: METAmessage.com, a simple, cost-effective, Internet-based ASP solution for workgroups and individuals; the METAmessage Conversion Server - Enterprise Edition, a highly scalable solution intended for corporations worldwide for whom "behind-the-firewall" security is especially important; and the METAmessage Conversion Server - Carrier Edition for server-farm environments such as telcos, ASPs and ISPs. The offerings all support a variety of handheld devices the product release follows a rigorous beta program that included several American Fortune 100 corporations.
The METAmessage for Wireless message conversion solutions address a full range of individual and corporate users` needs. The offerings support all of the industry`s popular file formats - more than 25 in all - giving users, among other capabilities, the ability to read or print a Web page from a URL link and use Outlook calendar and contact information files (.vcf and .ics). In addition to its read and print features, METAmessage.com lets ASP users receive faxes as e-mail message text on their wireless devices.
METAmessage for Wireless solutions are part of a series of offerings from Onset Technology that convert any kind of message - fax, voice, e-mail and attachments - into device-independent, business-ready information. In addition to its METAmessage for Wireless solutions, Onset also provides the ThruFax offerings, which identifies inbound fax addressees, turns faxes into editable text, and delivers them as e-mail messages that can be easily read, managed, searched, revised, or forwarded to others.
"Wireless users today need and want to receive a variety of message types, including attachments, faxes and voicemail notifications. There are a wide range of devices from which they may be sending and receiving these messages," said Kevin Hurwitz, AmVia`s mission controller. "However, not all these message tools work together. Our vision is to provide a full family of solutions to our channel and corporate SA that make any kind of message accessible on any kind of device while maintaining its original content and format."
METAmessage Conversion Server - Enterprise Edition
This product`s open-architecture and patent-pending technologies provide fast, highly reliable, robust processing power that is scaleable to the largest environments. The METAmessage Conversion Server (MCS) can be installed behind the firewall in a Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000 environment for secure handling. It can automatically create and update user lists by reading LDAP-compatible corporate directories using Microsoft`s Active Directory. Enterprises can implement the print service using AmVia`s RightFAX offering and a fax board.
Other exceptional MCS features include:
Support for dynamic load balancing.
Service prioritisation abilities (tells the application to behave most efficiently on the network or the server). The ability to upgrade without bringing down the system.
Support for Exchange, Notes and GroupWise.
METAmessage Conversion Server - Carrier Edition This solution provides scalable METAmessage solutions for telco`s, ASP`s, ISP`s and other server-farm environments with multiple conversion engines and redundant systems. Supporting 57 languages including all Western-European character sets, the MCS`s open architecture lets developers build and customize links to their systems while maintaining the server`s data integrity and protecting its processes from third-party components.
Availability
The METAmessage for Wireless offerings will be available through AmVia`s network of value-added resellers. The MCS - Enterprise Edition software has a base price of for a 20-user licence and additional 10-user licences. The MCS solutions have support for 57 languages including all Western-European character sets.
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As from the 1st of November 2000, Buwa Technologies, Goaldata, TCT Messaging (New Zealand) and Voicematix fall under one banner - AmVia (Pty) LTD.
AmVia`s solution set involves three tiers namely: Unified Messaging (incorporating Enterprise Network Fax and Voice Messaging); AllMedia Contact Centres and Mobility Services (incorporating 1Number and Mobile Delivery Platform technology).
Including new-economy communications mediums such as instant messaging, WAP, web chat, web collaboration, SMS and IP telephony, AmVia has earmarked its vision as Intuitive Communications.
The ethos behind Intuitive Communications is making all information types accessible, people connectable and business communications easier than ever before. AmVia believes that Intuitive Communication engines will become a central component for business agility. These engines will seamlessly interface between all data, voice and messaging environments making communications - device, service provider and platform agnostic.
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