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Teleserverphone calls online 'good for business'
(Western Mail Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Using the internet as a telephone will boost your company's bottom line, claim the two graduates behind Teleserver. Dan Ros and Sebastian Clarke, from Aberystwyth, have developed a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) device they will launch later this summer after spending a year on research and development.
Mr Ros said, 'Teleserver is a computer-based system which can manage an office's phone communications. In contrast to difficult-to-use and expensive traditional [systems], we have made the Teleserver easy to use yet powerful by building upon the popular open source Asterix software platform.
'VoIP technology makes phone systems more flexible, powerful, easy to use and saves money on phone calls by diverting them on to the internet. For example, a company can make free phone calls between its different offices or home workers over the internet. Teleserver differs from other products on the market because of the ease of use it offers.'
The two friends, who graduated from University of Wales, Aberystwyth, last year, initially planned to market Teleserver to small and medium-sized businesses in Wales before expanding nationwide. Mr Ros, 25, a computer science graduate, and Mr Clarke, 23, a software engineering graduate, hit on the idea at university and have been helped to set up Omnicea Ltd, by three business start-up support programmes. They are receiving support from the Welsh Assembly Government's Graduating to Enterprise (G2E) scheme, the Knowledge Exploitation Fund (KEF) Scholarship and the Wales Spinout project.
Omnicea gained momentum after they attended the G2E Business Start-Up Week workshops at their local university last June. Mr Ros said, 'It got us in the right frame of mind to think about running our own business and we found the presentations by other entrepreneurs really useful.
'We wanted to stay in Aberystwyth and the amount of support we've had has been great.
'The KEF scholarship is very important to someone who has just graduated and needs time to get a business idea off the ground and being able to talk to business mentors about problems has also been very useful.'
Budding entrepreneurs keen to follow in their footsteps will be able to access thousands of pounds' worth of free advice and training during this year's Start-Up Week in Aberystwyth, which begins on June 5.
The G2E programme is designed to be flexible to meet the individual needs of participants by providing free mentoring and specialist consultancy support from business experts for a year.
The KEF Scholarship, which is supported by European Social Funds, encourages entrepreneurial graduates to start their own business by providing them with a personal allowance for the first nine months.
The Wales Spinout programme helps new businesses 'spin out' from Welsh universities.
Ten Welsh universities and colleges are hosting a Start-Up Week.
Events will take place at:
University of Wales, Lampeter, on June 1;
Newi (North East Wales Institute of Higher Education), Wrexham, Cardiff University and Coleg Sir Gr, Carmarthen, from June 12-16;
University of Wales, Bangor, from June 19-22;
Coleg Menai from June 19-21;
University of Wales, Swansea, from June 19-23;
Merthyr Tydfil College from June 20-22, and
Ystrad Mynach College from June 27-29
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