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Oracle Retail Applications Become Voice-enabled with Wavelink SpeakeasySAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- Oracle (News - Alert) OpenWorld 2009, Booth 234 Moscone South - Wavelink Corporation (www.wavelink.com), a member of the Oracle® PartnerNetwork, today announced its Wavelink Speakeasy (News - Alert)™ platform can be used to voice-enable Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management (SIM). Wavelink will be demonstrating the solution at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 in booth 234. Wavelink Speakeasy, with its unique speech-to-text and text-to-speech functionality, adds voice capabilities to Oracle's solution for managing retail inventory. This allows customers to use voice commands for hands-free data entry, providing increased data accuracy and improved employee productivity. Given the complexity of inventory management and a competitive retail environment that demands real-time inventory data communication between retail locations and the corporate office, this translates to significant cost savings for a business. "The largest retailers worldwide use solutions from both Oracle and Wavelink, so this relationship just makes sense for us and our retail customers," said Lamar Van Wagenen, Wavelink CEO. "Wavelink enables Oracle customers to easily add voice capabilities to their existing Oracle retail applications without all the hurdles and additional costs that have hindered the adoption of voice solutions in the past. They can do this without acquiring additional mobile devices or modifying their applications." Wavelink Speakeasy delivers voice-driven data collection into existing host connectivity applications to increase workforce productivity and fully leverage mobile applications and devices. Administrators can easily add voice to their emulation applications without revising the host application or purchasing additional hardware and software. Speakeasy provides high-quality speech-to-text and text-to-speech functionality and supports multiple languages out of the box. Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management streamlines in-store activities, improves merchandise management and productivity, reduces labor costs, supports remote store processes and manages store-level profit and loss. Using portable or handheld wireless devices, store managers and personnel can quickly and easily perform an array of in-store operations, including receiving merchandise, managing physical inventories, conducting stock counts, ordering merchandise and transferring stock. For more information about Wavelink Speakeasy and Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management, visit http://www.wavelink.com/speakeasy and http://www.oracle.com/applications/retail.html, respectively. About Wavelink Founded in 1992, Wavelink Corporation is the leading provider of multi-vendor mobile application development and mobile device and infrastructure management software. Wavelink's technology solves the unique challenges involved in deploying, managing and controlling auto-ID data collection (AIDC) systems and RFID, and facilitates peak performance from frontline staff. Wavelink's emulation product family is the industry standard in providing host connectivity solutions. More than 10,000 companies in the retail, manufacturing, government and logistics industries rely on Wavelink to accelerate application delivery, reduce device management and support costs, and tighten network security. For more information, please visit www.wavelink.com or call 888-697-9283 from the USA and Canada or +800-9283-5465 outside the USA and Canada. Wavelink is a registered trademark and Speakeasy is a trademark of Wavelink Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
