NEW ORLEANS, LA--(Marketwired - Jan 18, 2016) - Booth #202 -- This week at the ACUTA 2016 Winter Seminar, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is addressing top IT trends that will impact higher education decision makers in 2016. Chief among these trends are mobility and cloud. At ACUTA, AVST will spotlight its CX-E Unified Communications (UC) solution that empowers colleges and universities across the country to begin the transition to their digital future.
Today's empowered mobile workers have a strong do-it-yourself mindset, wanting to get information fast, on their own terms, at any time. Organizations face an urgent need to better define and develop harmonious relationships between people and their mobile devices. With smart technologies now everywhere, colleges and universities continue to seek ways to keep up with this digital revolution.
To that end, AVST will spotlight Atom®, a solution that keeps faculty and staff connected and accessible everywhere they go. Atom acts as a 24/7 personal assistant that understands the context of any given individual's work situation. Through geo-awareness within the mobile client, or by sensing which Wi-Fi network is near, Atom syncs with a user's calendar and instant messaging presence status to optimize call routing. Atom's powerful, multilingual speech interface enables users to safely and efficiently complete tasks, while mobile or stationary, through simple voice commands such as, "Call John Smith," "Get new messages" or "Get my calendar for today."
The UC market is rapidly evolving with the exponential growth of new cloud providers and technologies. AVST's unique UC solutions are ideally suited to enable the evolutionary transition of enterprises to their digital future -- no matter what their UC landscape is today, or how it will look in the future. It all starts with AVST's best-of-breed interoperability to all major telephony/call control, email, IM, calendar, enterprise data and mobile devices -- whether they are located on-premise or in the cloud.
"Our UC solutions have been adopted by more than 1,200 educational institutions, including the top public and private universities in the United States," said Denny Michael, AVST Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing. "With the ability to add productive applications to any call control environment from Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco, GENBAND, Microsoft, NEC and more, we look forward to aiding colleges' and universities' transition to their digital future."
For more than a decade, AVST has been a strong supporter of The Association for College & University Technology Advancement (ACUTA). The organization is an international non-profit educational association representing over 1,800 individuals at more than 500 colleges and universities, with members ranging from small schools and community colleges to the 50 largest U.S. institutions. ACUTA's core purpose is to support higher education in achieving optimal use of communications technologies. AVST is a corporate affiliate of ACUTA and has been acknowledged for its support of the organization's regional and national events.
For more information about AVST's products for the higher education marketplace, visit the company's website at www.avst.com/education.
About AVST
With more than 30 years of continuous innovation, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a trusted developer of software-based Unified Communications (UC) solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Our passion is to develop communications solutions that transform the productivity of individual workers, teams and businesses while leveraging the value of their existing and evolving IT infrastructure.
Thousands of businesses worldwide rely on AVST to meet their "mission-critical" communications requirements today, align their business with key trends and, with the world-class interoperability of AVST's UC solutions, provide a bridge to their digital future.
Headquartered in Orange County, California, AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Washington, Victoria B.C., Canada and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's UC solutions are sold and supported worldwide by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. To learn more about AVST, our products and partners, please visit www.avst.com or you can follow us at Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
