SimpleSignal hosted VoIP lets Mobile Workers Listen to Emails and Manage Microsoft Outlook Calendar with Voice Commands

Today, SimpleSignal is announcing that it has successfully married Microsoft Exchange 2007 with its BroadSoft-based Hosted PBX offering to offer a new solution called SimplyMobile. SimplyMobile offers some really cool features, such as the ability to listen to emails from any phone -- even a mobile device by leveraging TTS (text-to-speech). Also, it features the ability for users to use voice commands to call the people who emailed them. They espouse the ability to be driving and listening to your emails and then verbally deleting them. So as you commute to the office, instead of having 200 emails to read when you arrive in the office, you only have 50.

Definitely a useful tool for multitaskers like myself. Guess you email fanatics won't need to be checking your Blackberry at dinner any more.

SimplyMobile also allows SMBs to use voice commands over a mobile phone to make changes to their Outlook calendar. For instance, if you are running behind for an appointment so you want to push it back 15 minutes. You call into your SimplyMobile unified communications service and move the appointment back. Exchange then sends out an email notification of the change to the meeting participants. I like how SimplyMobile uses Active Directory as the center of user provisioning. Because it is a part of Exchange Server 2007, users can take advantage of usernames, full names, and department names that are already in the system. Additionally, incoming calls are automatically synced with Exchange contact information; instead of just seeing a phone number, the name of the person leaving a message is also displayed. Any user listed in our on-line Self-Service Portal can be quickly enabled for Hosted Unified Communications. Full release after the jump... Continue reading SimpleSignal hosted VoIP lets Mobile Workers Listen to Emails and Manage Microsoft Outlook Calendar with Voice Commands... Tags: calendar, emails, hosted VoIP, Microsoft, mobile workers, Outlook, SimpleSignal, SimplyMobile, voice commands

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