AVST Expands Its National Distribution Channel to Meet Increasing Demand for Enterprise Communications Solutions

AVST has added Shared Technologies to deliver CallXpress®, unified communications to businesses nationwide.

Foothill Ranch, Calif. (PRWEB) May 2, 2005 -- Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), a leading provider of enterprise communications solutions, continues to expand its North American presence by adding Shared Technologies to its growing list of resellers. Shared Technologies, a leading provider of converged communications technologies, now offers AVSTs line of advanced unified communications solutions including its flagship product, CallXpress®, to enterprises nationwide.

We are seeing a significant trend in enterprise communications this year," said Hardy Myers, President and CEO of AVST. Companies of all sizes are looking to replace legacy voice mail systems with unified messaging, add speech solutions to replace touch tone automated attendants or deploy VoIP services. To meet this demand, AVST continues to augment its distribution channel."

With a growing network of resellers, AVST is well-positioned to capitalize on this market opportunity by expanding its national footprint through leading and respected resellers such as Shared Technologies. Aiming to meet the increasing demand for next-generation enterprise communications solutions, Shared Technologies provides additional distribution of AVSTs CallXpress unified messaging and Seneca® speech module to a variety of businesses.

National in scope, local in focus, Shared Technologies is a group of over six hundred professionals focused on serving and supporting thousands of customers in forty U.S. markets. With a thirty year track record of success, consistently high levels of customer satisfaction and proprietary tools for customer database management and tracking, Shared Technologies is an ideal partner to deliver AVSTs world-class unified communications technologies.

We offer best-in-class solutions to businesses that are working in a converged communications environment," said Shared Technologies Director of Product and Engineering, Woody Coulson. We have many customers that are looking to upgrade their communications systems, and AVSTs product line gives us the opportunity to offer them unified communications solutions to fit their business needs."

For more information on how to purchase AVST products from Shared Technologies, please contact its sales team at (888) 835-4444 or http://www.stfi.com/index.cfm?p=feedback.

About AVST

Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of enterprise communications solutions for businesses of all sizes. Through its world-class unified communications platform, CallXpress®, and its innovative speech applications module, Seneca®, AVST offers the industrys most powerful suite of enterprise communications solutions. AVSTs solutions enable direct access to an enterprises communications infrastructure including unified messaging, text to speech solutions, voicemail, email and fax messaging from any voice or data device via a touch-tone, GUI or speech interface. Established in September 2003, AVST was formed from the combined businesses of Sound Advantage (established in 1997) and the CallXpress division (established in 1982) of Captaris, Inc.

Headquartered in Orange County, CA, AVST maintains facilities in Bellevue, WA, and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices across the United States. With more than 35,000 systems installed worldwide, AVSTs 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.avstgroup.com.

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