Philips Business Communications (PBC) has developed a unique family of Web-enabled telephony applications and has brought them together in a personal portal to a company`s intranet and the Internet. Called SOPHO MyOffice@Net, these applications will help increase companies` productivity and flexibility because they constitute a telephony environment that makes itself available to users whenever they want it and wherever they are. The user will be able to access several telephone functions via the same user interface that they have been used to using in the data environment, such as a PC or mobile devices with an Internet browser such as WAP phones.
According to Mike Allsworth, PBC technologist, SOPHO MyOffice@Net offers an employee flexibility and user-friendly control over his personal communications facilities, whether he is behind his desk or on the move.
"MyOffice@Net, which can be integrated in a company`s intranet or made available as a standalone solution, offers a wide range of functions. These include phone display and group display information, controlling personal phone settings, an online telephone directory, voicemail, Unified Messaging, Mobile Messaging and a softphone," explains Allsworth.
"Productivity and efficiency are improved by integrating MyOffice@Net in a company intranet. Users will benefit from having company data (the traditional intranet information) and its complete telephony environment offered at one
glance. Integration with existing applications and customer databases offers further advantages of having different business processes linked and optimised in the best possible way.
"Mobile employees will derive major benefits. These people travel a lot and find themselves working from different offices, at home, in hotels, and from other remote locations. Having direct access to their own personal telephony environment will give these employees the same communications facilities they enjoy at the office," he said.
Commenting on the wealth of enhancements MyOffice@Net will offer in the areas of productivity and flexibility, Philips Business Communications` International Product Manager Heero Smit, said: "It`s not for nothing that we say `SOPHO MyOffice@Net is the personal communications environment that goes where you go`. MyOffice@Net is the perfect response to a growing demand for managing and having access to the complete communications environment. It`s the first personal web portal that will make all telephone facilities available to the business professional from any Internet access point."
SOPHO MyOffice@Net which was enthusiastically received at CEBIT 2001, is an integral part of SOPHO @vance, the concept with which PBC provides its customers converged voice and data solutions.
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