Pronexus expands VAD Program to deliver telephony and speech solutions to Japanese market.

Newest member, Proton Ltd. addresses growing demand for IP telephony with VBVoice's VoIP capabilities.

Ottawa, Canada (PRWEB) September 5, 2003 -- Pronexus Inc., the leading provider of computer telephony and speech software solutions, today announced that Proton Ltd. has joined the Pronexus VAD program. As the newest member, Proton will be distributing Pronexus' award winning development tool, VBVoice, to the Japanese marketplace.

The Pronexus Value Added Distributor (VAD) program is designed to provide members with a way to maximize their market opportunity and to promote, market and deliver complete communications solutions to resellers in the computer telephony and speech areas. Among other benefits, program members receive technical assistance, exclusive technology previews, and preferred pricing on Pronexus' products, training, support and consulting services.

Proton's Softboat division is a leading system software distributor based in Japan, with a focus on software development tools and components, as well as computer and Internet Telephony management utilities. The company also provides comprehensive customer support through its expert technical engineers.

"We are very pleased that Proton has joined our expanding VAD program," commented Chris Biber, Marketing Director at Pronexus. "Our cooperation with dedicated companies such as Proton maximizes the joint opportunity to meet the needs of the dynamic telephony and speech markets in Japan."

Japan, a top telecommunications market, is also projected to be one of the fastest growing Voice-over-IP services markets in the world. According to research firm IDC, the VoIP services market will grow from 3.1 billion yen ($26m USD) to 720 billion yen ($6.20b USD) during the years 2002 to 2007. VBVoice addresses the Japanese market needs through its extensive support for IP telephony. It also leverages the power of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and features extensive support for voice recognition, speech synthesis, and a highly scalable modular architecture. Today, VBVoice is the most comprehensive and flexible development environment for business critical Computer Telephony (CT) and speech solutions.

"We have been a Pronexus distributor for many years now, and have always been very satisfied with the staff's professionalism and technical expertise. We are very pleased by the opportunity to further solidify our relationship with such a well-known leader in CT through this newer, more formal agreement", commented Masao Takeda, Managing Director of Softboat Division Company at Proton Ltd. "The depth and wide range of VBVoice features - and in particular the introduction of VoIP support, enables us to offer our customers in Japan sophisticated and robust telephony and speech solutions."

About Proton Ltd.
Proton Co., Ltd. was established in 1997, and through the merger in 2002 aims at being a solution provider capable of providing both hardware and software solutions. Softboat, a software division company of Proton, is widely recognized as a leading distributor of imported software products in Japan with its high level of expertise in sales and support of leading software products in multiple arenas of Enterprise system, Utility system as well as Development component system.

About Pronexus Inc.
With nearly a decade of experience and more than 3000 clients and partners in over 110 countries around the world, Pronexus Inc. has established itself as a leader in Computer Telephony Integration for wired and wireless environments. The company is the developer of the award-winning VBVoice(tm), a Rapid Application Development tool for building business-critical CT solutions. It also provides professional services for businesses requiring custom applications and develops OnCall(tm), a line of turnkey CT business solutions for a variety of industries and applications. Comprehensive support services and acclaimed training complete the firm's offerings.

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More information:

Sonia Tercler
Marketing Communications
Pronexus Inc.
Tel: (613) 271 8989 ext.541
sonia.tercler@pronexus.com