Press Release
March 21, 2001
Novarra Instantly Extends Vocal Link's Cross Media Messaging Applications to Interact with Palm and RIM devices
Las Vegas, CA - CTIA Booth # L-8- Novarra, Inc. (Arlington Heights, Ill.), a leading provider of instant wireless software empowering the mobile workforce with wireless access to eBusiness applications, today announced that Vocal Link will use Novarra's instant wireless software to give customers access to its Cross Media Messaging™ applications via Palm and RIM devices. Novarra was able to deploy Vocal Link's applications to these devices in less than one day.
Vocal Link is a provider of speech-activated business-to-business communication services for mobile professionals, enterprises and telephone carriers. Using a proprietary unified messaging technology called Cross Media Messaging™, Vocal Link enables any message to be transmitted or received by voice, email, fax, pager, or wireless device, using text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion. An email or a fax can be listened to in its entirety on the phone, while a fax or an email can be sent simply by speaking the message into the phone, and so on. Users can receive, reply, forward and send new messages using a variety of media.
"Our goal was to provide our customers with unified communications capabilities via any wireless device of their choice," said Bobby Newman, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Vocal Link. "Novarra's technology enabled us to extend this critical functionality to our customers via the devices they were demanding - a huge step in the industry and a tremendous addition to our value proposition."
Novarra Delivers the Fastest Speed-to-Wireless
With Novarra WirelessWeb Enterprise Suite, Vocal Link was able to achieve the fastest speed-to-wireless for their extended messaging solution because Novarra's technology instantly enables existing web-based applications to go wireless. Using its proprietary, patent-pending Adaptive Content Accelerator to instantly adapt web content for a high-quality mobile user experience on small-screened devices, Novarra delivers wireless eBusiness in days or weeks, rather than the months-long deployment times required by wireless application development projects.
"Novarra's instant wireless software gives our customers immediate access to their applications. It enables our customers to gain greater return on their eBusiness investments by instantly enabling their applications to go wireless without re-authoring content," said Art Roldan, president and CEO of Novarra. "With Vocal Link, our ability to extend their messaging solution to RIM and Palm devices in mere hours, was a great accomplishment, and one simply unheard of in the wireless industry. We will continue to execute on our business goal to provide our customers with the fastest time-to-market for their wireless strategies."
The Novarra WirelessWeb Enterprise Suite is a complete wireless solution that delivers eBusiness applications across multiple networks and on multiple device platforms. Novarra WirelessWeb Server simply plugs into an organization's existing eBusiness infrastructure to deliver wireless interaction with handheld devices, eliminating the need for customers such as Vocal Link to re-develop applications or to perform intrusive application integration. Novarra's software performs three major functions that are core to delivering viable applications for wireless interaction; that is, it instantly adapts applications for wireless access, manages wireless connectivity and implements end-to-end security. Novarra also provided Vocal Link with its device software, Novarra WirelessWeb microBrowser for the Palm and RIM devices.
Availability of the Novarra WirelessWeb Enterprise Suite
The Novarra WirelessWeb Enterprise Suite 3.0 is now released for general availability. Contact sales@novarra.com or call 847-368-7800 for more information.
Novarra also shares a reseller partnership with Motient Corporation. Novarra's software is available as an enhancement to Motient's eLinkSM service and BlackBerry by Motient service, both carried on the most pervasive wireless data network in the country.
Novarra can be visited at booth L-8 in the Wireless Developer's Pavilion at CTIA, Sands Expo Center, Las Vegas, March 20 - 22, 2001.
About Novarra
Novarra, Inc. provides enterprises with the fastest speed-to-wireless, empowering the mobile workforce with wireless access to eBusiness applications. Novarra's patent-pending software offers a complete solution that adapts web-based applications to handheld devices, manages wireless connectivity and delivers end-to-end security. Novarra's WirelessWeb Enterprise Suite simply plugs into an organization's existing eBusiness infrastructure to deliver instant wireless interaction with handheld devices. With Novarra, enterprises leverage eBusiness investments while gaining the competitive advantage of an always-connected mobile workforce. For more information, visit www.novarra.com.
