VIALTO RELEASES E2Go ENTERPRISE - INTELLIGENT VOICE-DRIVEN MOBILE ACCESS TO MICROSOFT EXCHANGE
Industrys First Solution Designed for Business Users to Access Email Quickly and Easily from any Phone.
MEC2002, Anaheim, California, October 8, 2002 – Vialto Corporation, a leading provider of voice-driven multimodal applications for the mobile workforce, today announced E2Go 3.0 for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Exchange, a second-generation voice-driven application optimized for mobile business users. With E2Go, mobile employees can use any phone to listen and respond to their email and appointments, and voice dial anyone in their personal address book or corporate directories. Vialto is demonstrating E2Go in Booth #178 at the Microsoft Exchange Conference, October 8th –10th, 2002, in Anaheim, California.
Vialto E2Go is an Enterprise-secure, server based software application that provides a sophisticated voice query capability to enable mobile users to access their email quickly. The Vialto solution is easy to use (there are four basic commands), affordable (it can be used from any existing phone), and scalable to the entire workforce (everyone in the company can use it). In addition, E2Go provides a customized alert and reminder system using SMS (text messaging) which notifies users of important updates such as urgent emails or meeting changes.
Mobile professionals are demanding anytime access to email. However, most large corporations are saying ‘no to buying expensive devices and the recurring monthly fees that go with those devices", said Ram Kedlaya, CEO of Vialto. Our goal with E2Go is to make mobile email access affordable and ubiquitous, just like voicemail. E2Go provides unique value for the business user – the ability to instantly enable a companys entire sales, services and executive teams to access specific email, calendar and contact information – with a powerful query capability – from any phone."
Intuitive Voice User Interface for efficient mobile access
Typically, mobile business users need to check their email several times a day and retrieve specific information. E2Go was specifically designed for this style of intra-day" and metro-mobility" access. Mobile employees can speak naturally and issue conversational voice requests such as:
Appointments for Thursday after 3pm
Email regarding sales meeting
E2Go has been optimized for efficient mobile and voice access. Key features include:
An intuitive and powerful voice query capability - users can quickly access specific information.
Interactive email – users can retrieve, forward and reply to their email messages.
Interactive calendaring– users can look up, create appointments and accept invitations.
Contact look up and voice dialing from personal or corporate directories.
E2Go is standards-based and requires no voice training. The product uses the latest VoiceXML, Automated Speech Recognition and Text to Speech technologies from Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN). Vialto has delivered a product that makes mobile access to information incredibly easy and affordable," said Lynda Kate Smith, Chief Marketing Officer of Nuance Communications. The combination of Nuances highly accurate speech recognition and Vialtos intuitive multimodal interface makes for an extremely compelling mobile solution for every company."
Enterprise-Secure, Leveraging Existing Infrastructure
The E2Go server application is deployed behind a companys firewall, meeting even the most stringent security requirements. E2Go is easy to install and delivers enterprise-grade scalability to support thousands of users in a company. The powerful data aggregation capability in E2Go provides seamless access to information from multiple data sources, including .NET web services.
E2Go provides network flexibility by supporting a companys existing telecommunications (PBX, T1) systems and effectively leveraging emerging network infrastructures with Voice over Packet (VoP) systems. E2Go is architected to support an array of telephone types with increasing multimodal capabilities – standard telephones with voice only interfaces, standard cell phones with voice and SMS (text messaging) capabilities, PBX connected phones, VoIP handsets from vendors like Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) with voice and text displays, or the rich text and graphics display capabilities in future 2.5G and 3G cell phones.
Availability, Configuration and Free Trial
E2Go is now available directly from Vialto or its value added resellers and integrators. Vialto uses standard interfaces to interact with an existing Exchange Server and can be configured in a few hours. Once installed, anyone within the company with a valid user account on Exchange may access the E2Go server.
Pricing is available on request. There are no monthly subscription fees or requirements to purchase special devices.
For qualified users, Vialto is offering a free E2Go trial. Please send a blank email to vinfo@vialto.com with the word trial" in the subject line.
About Vialto
Vialto is enabling mobile professionals by providing affordable, simple to use, voice-driven multimodal business productivity applications. Vialto applications exploit both existing and emerging and messaging, telecommunications and network infrastructures. Vialto platform is architected to work with the most popular devices that exist today (any standard cell phone) and also support multi-modal devices using MMS, WML and other standards on emerging networks (2.5G, 3G). Vialto is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For additional information call (408) 725-7222 or visit www.vialto.com.
E2Go, Vialto and related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties of Vialto Corporation. All other brands, products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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