SandCherry Partners With BEA Systems to Bring Speech and Multimodal Capabilities to Web Applications
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SandCherry's SoftServer Platform Offers Businesses Using BEA's WebLogic Server and Portal Compelling New Solutions for Phones, PDAs, and Smartphones
SandCherry, Inc. (www.sandcherry.com), a leader in multi-service broker software for applications and media resources, announced a partnership with BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, to offer speech and multimodal capabilities to businesses that already rely on BEA WebLogic Server and BEA WebLogic Portal for customer service, workforce management, content, and messaging applications. The complementary solution uses BEA WebLogic Server and is designed to provide a reliable, high-performance platform to run Web applications, service elements to the media components on the SandCherry SoftServer platform, and integrate with back-office systems and databases.
"SandCherry's platform adds another dimension to applications that have been built on the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform," said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, global software partners, BEA Systems. "With enterprises spending millions of dollars a year on application infrastructure, complementary solutions such as this will be extremely valuable in increasing the versatility and utility of those investments."
SandCherry's SoftServer platform can provide applications with dynamic, reliable, managed access to a variety of speech recognition, text-to-speech, and announcement components from leading vendors such as AT&T Labs, Elan, Nuance, SpeechWorks, and Telisma to deliver the audio components for voice and multimodal applications.
"We are very pleased to be a BEA Star Partner and look forward to even closer collaboration on innovative enterprise solutions," remarked Dale Hartzell, vice president of marketing at SandCherry. "With this solution, enterprises can extend the reach of their Web-enabled applications to virtually everyone by using phones, voice-enabled PDAs, and smartphones, providing a powerful tool that can help improve customer service, simplify workforce management, and increase revenue."
About SandCherry
SandCherry, Inc. (www.sandcherry.com) develops software platforms that are critical for affordable mass deployment of touch-tone, speech-enabled, multimodal and multimedia enhanced services by upgrading existing Web and telecom software technology with superior media management and control software. As a result, SandCherry's products empower service providers and enterprises to unleash the combined value of speech recognition software, application servers, and media servers to deliver these enhanced services that can increase carrier revenues or reduce enterprise costs. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, the company was founded by telecom and software industry veterans from companies including AT&T, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Telcordia Technologies and Alcatel. For more information about SandCherry please visit www.sandcherry.com.
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