Whether you an engineer, a banker or an IT administrator, telephone conferences, whether audio/video, are common in today’s work environment. These business professionals are increasingly reliant on their mobile phones. Although the conferences are proving valuable to companies, the task of dialing into conference calls, setting up appointments and sending messages to meeting participants is taking away time. And sometimes it gets frustrating if there is an error in dialing or entering the long passcode.
Now, start-up MobileDay promises to address this problem with the launch of a new app, mobile One-Touch conference calling. According to MobileDay, the mission of the company is to enable business professionals to work smarter from anywhere through a series of one-touch functions for iPhone and Android (News - Alert) devices.
“Conference calling is a major hassle for mobile users and none of the conferencing vendors, phone manufacturers, or application vendors have tackled it well,” said Elliot Gold, industry veteran and teleconferencing analyst at TeleSpan. “MobileDay has addressed this pain point for millions of business users with their innovative new app.”
According to MobileDay, key features of the One-Touch dialing app include automatic dialing into all conference calls without the need for the mobile user to enter any codes, pound signs, 1s or any other characters, support for any conference calling service, call notification, communication with meeting attendees, and calendar integration.
Whether a host or guest of any conference call, MobileDay provides access with a single tap of the ‘Join’ button, said the maker. Plus, it notifies the user 30 seconds before each call with options to join, dismiss or snooze the alert with one-touch and enables users to quickly and easily email or text their fellow meeting or conference call attendees with standard messages like, “I’m running late.” or, “Are we still meeting?” or even a custom message. Likewise, it integrates seamlessly with a user’s calendar to detect any conference calls.
“With tens of millions of conference call users worldwide, MobileDay is attacking a large market with an innovative approach," said Brad Feld, managing director, Foundry Group, one of the investors in the new company. Other investors include SoftBank Capital, SoftTech VC, Google (News - Alert) Ventures, Box Group, DH Capital and David Cohen.
MobileDay was founded by Rajat Bhargava, Jim Haid, Brad Dupee and Priyan Guneratne, four business executives that understood the pain first hand of trying to do business while being mobile.
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Edited by Rachel Ramsey