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CommuniGate's Pronto! Wins TMC's Unified Communications Magazine Product of the Year Award
(Market Wire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) MILL VALLEY, CA, March 27 / MARKET WIRE/ --
CommuniGate Systems, the leader in
carrier-class Rich Media Internet Communications, today announced that
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) named CommuniGate's Pronto!
flash-based Unified Communications (UC) client as a 2007 Product of the
Year winner from Unified Communications magazine. In its first annual
product of the year awards, Unified Communications honors the products and
companies that have brought groundbreaking advancement to UC technologies
over the past year.
As the world's only Web 2.0 Unified Communications client, CommuniGate's
lightweight Pronto! brings together e-mail, voice, messaging, and
groupware, along with HD multimedia entertainment applications. With
Pronto! 2.0, users can chat with friends, send e-mail, place a VoIP call,
catch up on their favorite HDTV show, stream HD quality audio, and more --
all from a sleek, easy-to-use interface. Based on Adobe Flash? and Adobe
Flex(TM) 3 technology, Pronto! maintains the same look and feel across any
operating system and choice of internet browser. Pronto!'s modular
framework enables service providers and third party developers to create
customized Web 2.0 applications that give consumers a richer, more social
web experience with unique applications like IPTV with integrated chat,
shopping carts, and community voting.
"Unified Communications magazine bestows Product of the Year awards on
companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement
and application refinements. These winners have demonstrated to the editors
of Unified Communications that their products or services have gone the
extra mile to help improve both the customer experience and the ROI for the
companies that use them," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group
Editor-in-Chief of Unified Communications. "CommuniGate Systems deserves
this great honor for driving industry innovation with their Pronto! Unified
Communications dashboard."
"We're honored to be recognized by Unified Communications in their
inaugural awards. Both the award and publications are a great testament to
the fact that Unified Communications is without a doubt changing the way
people work, play, communicate, and collaborate," said Jon R. Doyle, VP
Business Development at CommuniGate Systems. "Pronto! unifies all the new
forms of Internet Communications and rich media in a highly intuitive,
easy-to-use framework. And the newly launched Pronto! 2.0 delivers an even
more engaging media experience with support for HD video and audio."
Pronto! is available today as an open and free service at www.TalktoIP.com
where users can take Pronto! for a test drive. Additionally, an installable
"Community" version is located at www.communigate.com/community which
allows free use of the CommuniGate Pro Server and Pronto! for five accounts
or less, making it a smart choice for small businesses or the home office
network. For installations over five users, the CommuniGate Pro full
featured unified communication server is priced starting at US$899 for 25
users. ISPs, broadband and mobile operators can contact
sales@communigate.com for pricing information.
About CommuniGate Systems
Founded in 1991 and based in Mill Valley, California, CommuniGate Systems
develops carrier-class Unified Communications and media delivery software
for broadband and mobile operators to deliver value-added services and SaaS
solutions. CommuniGate Systems delivers powerful mashups of Unified
Communications technology mixed with media and entertainment applications
for portals, social networks, enterprises and mobile communities.
CommuniGate Systems is revolutionizing the Unified Communications industry
with a unique Flash-based client framework Pronto! bringing together all
forms of communication and breaking the leash to the desktop with Web 2.0
mobility.
CommuniGate Systems is the first choice in technology solutions for over
12,000 customers with over 130 million subscribers unifying e-mail,
collaboration, IM, presence and VoIP with a single identity. The Unified
Communications platform provides flexibility, performance, and scalability
with benchmark proven architecture remaining unchallenged in the industry.
Our technology powers OEM partner products ranging from embedded real time
systems to powerful unified messaging platforms at top tier global network
operators. The open development environment's simple APIs deliver
extensible flexibility with a unique clustering technology for 99.999%
uptime for the most demanding application environments
The company is a trusted and financially stable vendor, maintaining the
highest customer satisfaction levels in the Unified Communications industry
with over 175 members in its partner network worldwide.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Brian Blank
FutureWorks, Inc.
(408) 720-8228 Ext 114brianb@future-works.com
Andrea Kimpflinger
CommuniGate Systems
(415) 383-7164 Ext 219akimpflinger@communigate.com
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