[October 21, 2003] Venali Internet Fax Service Integrated With Microsoft Office System Venali Incorporated, a global provider of Internet Fax messaging solutions, announced its leading Internet Fax service is seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft Office System. Users can now send faxes over Venali’s secure IP Fax network directly from any Microsoft Office System application, or receive faxes as images or text directly into their Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 email inbox. This convenient new fax feature makes sending faxes as easy and accessible as sending email. All Microsoft Office System customers also benefit from the new Venali Fax Protector™, which protects your fax number from spam by blocking incoming junk faxes from your email inbox. “Venali customers have always enjoyed the benefits of Fax over Internet, such as secure and reliable transmission, lower costs, and the ability to electronically archive documents. Now, by working with Microsoft, these features are even easier to access for users of the Microsoft Office System,” said Ralph Musgrove, Vice President of Market Development for Venali. “In addition, we’re delighted about the information workers Venali will reach through the many worldwide users of Microsoft products.” “The desktop-based Internet Fax solution that Venali provides has contributed to a faster and more efficient workflow,”stated Jerry Cave, Operations Supervisor - Image Processing at CNF, a Venali customer. “We no longer need expensive fax modems, which aren’t conducive to enabling every user with fax and are also costly to maintain.” Individuals as well as small and mid-size businesses to large enterprises are able to use Venali to leverage their business applications and existing communications platform in a simple and cost-effective manner. Instead of relying on traditional phone lines, modems or fax servers, transmissions are routed over the Internet quickly and efficiently. Faxes are sent directly from all Microsoft Office System programs to any fax number worldwide, and faxes are received into a Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 inbox as an email attachment. Users are also able to choose an individual fax number from hundreds of area codes worldwide. “The Microsoft Office System provides tremendous value to customers, by connecting people and organizations to information, processes and each other within familiar applications they use regularly,” said Gytis Barzdukas, director of Office Product Management at Microsoft Corp. “Microsoft is excited to be working with Venali to extend this value by offering customers a powerful, easy, more secure and seamless way to fax over the Internet directly from the Microsoft Office System.” Venali also offers special support for the Microsoft Tablet PC platform - supporting ink-annotation directly into a fax preview. Venali users may add a signature to a fax by signing directly on the screen, and send it instantly - replicating the experience of a fax machine without the hassles of paper, toner, and busy signals. “A joint solution from Venali and Microsoft will be a major benefit to customers,” said Ronald Gruia, analyst firm Frost & Sullivan's Program Leader for Enterprise Communications Solutions. “Microsoft Office System users will get convenient access to Venali’s powerful IP Fax network, while existing Venali customers will be able to send and receive faxes more easily than ever.” Another great feature of the fax service is the Venali Fax Protector™, a patent-pending and sophisticated technology that detects and eliminates unsolicited spam faxes with close to 100% accuracy. Incoming fax transmissions are processed using Venali’s proprietary technology - developed by analyzing over three million junk faxes - to identify and remove likely junk faxes. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]