AVST Signs Letter of Intent to Purchase SaaS Technology from Voice Mobility International, Inc.

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., July 21 -- Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) today announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent to purchase certain assets of Voice Mobility International, Inc. (VMY, VMII and FWB: VMY) (Voice Mobility or VMI).  The principal assets being acquired in this transaction are the Voice Mobility UCN250 software as a service (SaaS) platform and all related technology and customers.  Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

 The UCN250 is a highly scalable and reliable Linux and SIP-based SaaS platform that will be integrated into AVST’s unified communications (UC) solution portfolio to accelerate AVST’s ability to address the evolving communications requirements of current and future AVST customers.

Jay Hutton, Chairman and CEO of Voice Mobility, commented, “This partnership constitutes a critical part of the restructuring of Voice Mobility and the realignment of our strategic focus. Our partnership with AVST extends beyond today’s announced technology acquisition and is expected to be long-term in nature as Voice Mobility prepares to launch a suite of secure cloud-based UC services that will be sold directly into the SMB market.  We are excited to collaborate with AVST as VMI’s UC solutions partner leveraging the UCN250 SaaS platform to create a secure, mobile-centric UC services portfolio.  We will develop this offering in close consultation with AVST and expect to work together in taking it to market.  We believe that this long-term strategic technology partnership with AVST will enable us to bring UC solutions to market more expeditiously than we might otherwise on our own.”

According to AVST President & CEO, Hardy Myers, “The acquisition of VMI’s UCN250 technology fits perfectly with our strategic objective to be an industry leader in delivering best of breed and highly-interoperable premise-based, hybrid and cloud-based UC solutions.”

Closing of the transaction issubject to certain conditions precedent, including the execution of a definitive purchase agreement and satisfactory completion of due diligence by AVST.  Closing is expected to occur on or before December 31, 2010.

About Voice Mobility
Voice Mobility develops and markets its unified communications product line to enterprise, campus and hosted customers. Our product line includes highly scalable Voicemail, Unified Communication, Fax Service, Interactive Voice Response, and Auto-Attendant applications, as well as unique features like Emergency Event Notification, Mobile Client functionality, Presence, Speech applications and Desktop integration with industry leading software providers. Migration options are available allowing the transfer of messages and data from legacy OCTel® messaging servers. For more information, call Jay Hutton at 250-978-5052 or visit www.voicemobility.com.

 

About AVST
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services to maximize their productivity. With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments — now and into the future.

Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's Unified Communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.

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AVST Announces New Version of Repartee

Marks the First Release Since the Acquisition of Active Voice

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., July 14, 2010 – Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), today announced the launch of Repartee^® LX 11.3 and Repartee LXi 11.3 (formerly known as Repartini), which offer hospitality, voicemail, call processing, automated attendant, unified messaging, personal call control and fax applications on a Linux-based platform.  Designed for small and mid-sized businesses, Repartee cost-effectively manages voice communications, improves customer service and increases productivity. The new release bolsters AVST’s offering for the hospitality market and features over 60 property management system integrations including the company’s first IP integration with Micros^® Fidelio, one of the industry’s most popular property management systems.

In April, AVST announced the acquisition of the Active Voice product lines including the Repartee family.  The introduction of Repartee LX and Repartee LXi marks the first new product release since the acquisition was announced and underscores AVST’s commitment to Active Voice customers and channel partners for ongoing support and development of the Active Voice product line.

For over 15 years Repartee has been serving the hospitality industry with a communications solution that facilitates a better hotel experience for guests, while keeping staff connected.  According to Tom Minifie, AVST Chief Technology Officer, “Repartee is well-known in the hospitality industry with a base of the world’s most prestigious hotels that rely on it as an integral part of their communications infrastructure.  This new version has features that come requested directly from our customers and includes a critical integration that will make hotel communications even more efficient and effective.”

Repartee offers all of the most critical communications features for hotel administration and guest communications.  Guest features include unlimited voicemail messages with message retrieval, automatic check-in/check-out, personalized greetings and wake-up call functionality.  Administration features include broadcast messaging to all hotel guests (in the event of an emergency or hotel-wide outage, etc.), custom distribution lists, wake-up call reporting, attendant administration interface and more.

Repartee LX 11.3 and Repartee LXi 11.3 are scheduled for general availability in the next 30 days through AVST’s established reseller channels. For more information about AVST’s products, please visit the company website at www.avst.com.

About AVST
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services to maximize their productivity. With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments — now and into the future.

Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's Unified Communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.

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AVST On-Demand Webcast Building Unified Messaging into Your UC Strategy

Topic: Building Unified Messaging into Your UC Strategy

Description: Not all Unified Messaging solutions are built the same. When implementing Unified Messaging, it's important to select a flexible architecture to facilitate growth and manage your organization's approach to compliance and confidentiality. Critical considerations include multiple storage models within a single deployment, voicemail networking, your organization's security needs, and more. AVST will present the different Unified Messaging architectures and the benefits of each.

Duration: 38 minutes

 

To view the entire presentation, please visit:  http://www.avst.com/downloadcenter/presentation6.asp

For more information on AVST, please visit:  http://www.avst.com

 

 

Webcast Script (first 4 slides)

 

Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy

Slide 1 - Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy
Good afternoon or morning everyone, depending where you happen to be located here in the United States or wherever else. Welcome again to the webinar. Unified Messaging is really one of those technologies that started to become almost a catch phrase. Everyone's talking about it, everyone's looking towards it. Unified communications is another one of those (UC). Its kind of a big umbrella phrase its one of those phrases that's kind of out there and everyone talks about it but nailing down the definition for it and what's all encompassed in that can sometimes be a challenge. So we're going to take the unified messaging component of unified communications and see how that can fit in the overall plan and how the products from AVST can help you achieve your goals in developing your ongoing unified communications strategy.

Slide 2 - Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy
So today, the things we'll take a look at. First, take a look at a snapshot of who AVST is. Kind of go over unified messaging. What is unified messaging? What does it mean? Some people say if you get five people in a room and ask them “what is unified messaging”, you'd get 7 or 8 answers. That can sometimes be true so we're going to kind of define a few terms and get a fixed idea of what unified messaging really is and what the different options are out there. Everyone talks about unified messaging but the method in which it's implemented is different and significantly different based on what products you're looking at. The impact to your organization for those different implementation options can sometimes be very significant. That's what we're going to look at is how to take the architecture of unified messaging, the options available with unified messaging, and what are the things that you really need to consider as your evaluating the pluses and minuses of all the different methods of providing unified messaging. Of course, at the end we'll open it up for questions and answers. Please feel free to submit your questions in the chat window of the sidebar of the counsel or hold your questions until the end. We'll open it up for everybody to ask any types of questions at the end.

Slide 3 - Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy
So AVST, applied voice and speech technology. We have been around for a long time. We were actually one of the inventors of voicemail. Voicemail is one of those ubiquitous applications that's out there that we tend to think of has been around forever. But it really got its start in the late 70's and early 80's and AVST was one of the first companies to deliver a voice messaging application. We've been doing it for nearly 30 years now with really being the leaders in delivering advanced applications within this niche of the telecommunications, voice, and data industry. We are singularly focused on this technology and many of the aspects that surround this technology and the ways that this technology can really enhance your implementations to the unified communications strategy.

Slide 4 - Building Unified Messaging into your UC Strategy
We have a broad range of customers; we'll 2ake a snap shot at some of those. One of the things we're very proud of, because of the focus that we have in this particular niche of the industry. If you talk to any of the independent consulting firms that surround the industry, voice and data industry (Gartner, Frost and Sullivan and those types of organizations), and ask them their ideas of the leaders and those companies providing this. Without exception, all of those independent consulting firms will identify AVST and CallXpress as really being one of the most complete solutions that are available in the marketplace today. That really has been validated without presence in the marketplace. Voice Reports did a survey last year, late last year that surveyed many major organizations and enterprises to find out what was the primary voicemail system that they had. We were proud to be, by a wide margin, the leader within that survey that they sampled.

 

 

 

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