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SAN MATEO, Calif.(BUSINESS WIRE)
Avistar Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:AVSR), a leader in unified visual
communications solutions, today announced the launch of Visual
Insights,? a program that allows application vendors to quickly and
easily embed software applications with visual communications while
promoting their brand and enhancing the value of their products in the
market. Based on Avistar's
award-winning C3? platform, Visual Insights comes equipped with a
suite of embeddable components that provide a quick and seamless
integration of desktop videoconferencing into any application.
With Avistar's Prove Before You Purchase? License Credit Program,
application vendors can now experience a new level of visual
communications and can greatly expand the value of their current
software offerings while using integration costs as a credit against
future product licenses*. These Avistar components offer business-class,
standards-based video and audio communications that can be quickly and
seamlessly embedded into any software application without Avistar's
assistance, enabling the true integration of video, audio and
collaboration into a seamless, completely customized user experience.
This is yet another valuable release in a string of software releases
made by Avistar in the last year,? reported Ira
Weinstein, analyst and partner at Wainhouse
Research. Wainhouse Research has long believed that
videoconferencing would provide significant value as a feature within
the software applications and tools used by information workers every
day. Visual Insights represents a significant leap forward toward
realizing this concept.?
According to Stephen
Epstein, Chief Marketing Officer, Avistar, There is nothing like
this in the market. As we refocused Avistar and our product strategy
over the last year, we concluded that communications and business
applications need to be united to offer the type of business
opportunities that unified communications promises. Traditional
offerings often have not delivered, or they presented communications as
a standalone solution offering poor quality or integration difficulties.
Now any company can integrate industrially scaled, pre-proven video and
audio functionality into their software applications. We believe Visual
Insights provides true synergy between applications and communication
and offers massive competitive and business value to any software
application company or internal development function.?
Game-Changing Innovations
In the last year we have brought to the market game-changing
innovations including firsts in: a software MCU, with Avistar
C3 Conference?, which offers comparable functionality of hardware
MCUs that are ten times more expensive; an integrated software gateway
component that links any video endpoint to any other product,
seamlessly; a network bandwidth management component that enables video
and audio quality unmatched in the market; and video plug-ins that
enables software applications to provide out-of-the-box visual
communications. This visual communications portfolio of software
components offers significant opportunity to any technology company
looking to differentiate itself and its software products in the market,
while using standards based technology,? said Chris
Lauwers, CTO, Avistar.
Our projects with IBM, Lifesize, Logitech, Zultys and other firms have
given us the ability to offer components that any company can download,
embed and offer their customers industrial strength video and audio
capabilities as part of their portfolio in a matter of days,? said Simon
Moss, CEO, Avistar. The Visual Insights components can be embedded
without Avistar's assistance, and are completely customizable to the
software application's look, feel, workflow, aesthetics and branding,
while offering the type of quality of service and experience that no
similar software can match. Any application company CRM,
pharmaceuticals, legal, financial markets, healthcare, manufacturing,
SaaS, or whomever can now, in a matter of days, offer seamlessly
integrated, high volume video/audio communication to any of their
customers.?
Enabling any application to seamlessly integrate communications as part
of its workflow increases the productivity and power of the business
interaction as a whole. We believe that is what unified communications
is all about,? Moss added.
Visual Insights is also available to Avistar's
entire global reseller community, to introduce to firms that want to
expand the capabilities of the internal solutions or to their software
application clients that seek to add powerful visual communications and
collaboration to their products.
For more information on Visual Insights, terms and conditions please go
to www.avistar.com
for contact information or email Avistar at info@avistar.com.
About Avistar Communications Corporation
Avistar (Nasdaq:AVSR)
is an innovation leader in the unified visual communications industry,
providing proven business-class desktop videoconferencing technology.
Avistar's installations include more than 100,000 committed desktop
seats worldwide, bringing together business users anytime and anyplace.
Companies such as IBM, LifeSize, Logitech, Polycom and Sony use Avistar
technology to power their unified communications solutions. Avistar also
works with leading channel partners and resellers including AVI-SPL,
CityIS, ESCO, Fontel, Datamart and Jenne in more than 40 countries. For
more information, please visit www.avistar.com.
*Terms & conditions do apply.
Avistar
Angela Smith, +1-650-525-3388
asmith@avistar.com
or
Birnbach
Communications for Avistar
Margaret Bonilla, +1-603-548-0693
mbonilla@birnbachcom.com
Source: Avistar Communications Corp.
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