AVST Selects Oak as UK Distribution Partner

LONDON--(Marketwire - 11/10/10) - Oak today announced that it has been selected by Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST), a leading provider of enterprise communications solutions, as a distribution partner in the UK. Oak has expanded its product portfolio and now offers AVST's advanced Unified Communications (UC) platform, CallXpress®.AVST's CallXpress is the industry's most interoperable UC platform with over 400 TDM and IP telephony integrations and the ability to support multiple telephony switches on a single system. CallXpress delivers world class applications including advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech, and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can protect and extend its existing data and telephony infrastructure investment -- now and into the future.On the worldwide stage, CallXpress has been hugely successful in helping companies to seamlessly transition to next generation communications platforms. Whilst there are over 2000 installations in the UK, AVST is expanding distribution to address the growing market requirements for CallXpress and unified messaging into the UK market."Oak is a great distribution partner for AVST," said Ian Massingham, AVST Sales Director, EMEA. "They are woven into the fabric of the UK telecoms channel, having worked in this marketplace for many years, and are well placed to move CallXpress forward within the partner community.""The CallXpress product set enables our channel partners to easily address new and legacy market opportunities and drive incremental revenues, especially in this challenging market," said James Emm, Oak Joint CEO. "With CallXpress a customer can keep the PBX they have and extend its value by delivering UC capabilities such as unified messaging, mobility, call processing, and the award winning speech capabilities, such as the voice-driven automated attendant and personal assistant. We look forward to bringing CallXpress to customers looking to enhance user and business efficiency."To learn more about Oak, please visit www.oak.co.uk.About Oak
Oak (www.oak.co.uk) is a leading provider of innovative Communications Management Solutions to UK businesses and call centres of all sizes. Oak products are available from professional accredited channel partners across the UK. Oak also works closely with all leading telecoms manufacturers. Oak, an ISO9001:2008 quality accredited UK company, has been serving the channel since 1985 and today employs over 50 staff.About AVST
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a leading developer of Unified Communications solutions with over 15 million users relying on its products and services to maximize their productivity. With three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is solely focused on delivering communications solutions that increase individual, group and enterprise productivity. Its flagship Unified Communications platform, CallXpress®, offers best in class interoperability, scalability and resiliency while delivering advanced call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech and notification capabilities. With CallXpress, an organization can uniquely protect and extend its existing IT and telephony infrastructure investments -- now and into the future.Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Wash. and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's Unified Communications solutions are sold and supported internationally by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. For more information contact Denny Michael, Vice President of Marketing, at 949-699-2300 or access the company's website at www.avst.com.