(pressebox) Zürich, 31.01.2011 – The IBM Lotus Award 2011 jury for the category „Demonstrating Business Value through Social Business“ has nominated iscoord ag, a leading provider of award-winning Unified Communications (UC) clients, as finalist. The Award nomination includes the new is-phone Assistant for BroadWorks Lotus Edition. iscoord’s is-phone solution is certified by BroadSoft and currently the only IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Sametime softphone plug-in with full CTI support for the BroadWorks platform. Users can make/receive calls and control their hardphone or any other device supported by is-phone like e.g. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Android mobile phones with the is-phone plug-in and is-phone Assistant add-on.
„We are very proud to be nominated as finalist for the fifth time and to have the chance to win our fourth award at Lotusphere 2011“, states Markus Sieger, CEO of iscoord. „There are many IBM Lotus Notes/Sametime customers using the BroadWorks platform. With our certified is-phone softphones and UC clients, we give them freedom of choice concerning their preferred phone device and can deliver our enterprise-grade is-phone UC clients now also to all BroadSoft customers. Telecom providers can offer OEM versions to their customers, from integrated UC clients to stand-alone solutions and also mobile devices are supported.“
„Once again we have proven that our underlying SIP platform enables enterprise-grade communication solutions, interoperable with leading IP telephony platforms“, says Rolf Kuster, Head of Development at iscoord. „BroadWorks customers need solutions for any kind of OS like Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS or Android and with our portfolio of UC clients, we can cover all these needs. Due to the implemented provisioning, roll-out of is-phone products for a BroadWorks platform is easy and fast.“
„Our is-phone products are built to cover business needs and to support social business by delivering device- and place-independent communication. We are able to offer not only audio calls to the BroadWorks community, but also video calls, audio and video conference calls“, stats Chris Peter, VP Marketing. „With the new is-phone plug-in release 9 we even support HD video calls and conferences and users can dial into video conference platforms based on SIP like e.g. Polycom or Tandberg without the need for any additional middleware.“
iscoord offers OEM versions for large corporate and telecom/service providers with rebranded/customized design and feature sets. Please contact sales@iscoord.com for a quote.
iscoord will showcase the is-phone softphones/UC clients at Lotusphere 2011 (booth #512) and Enterprise Connect 2011 (booth #636) in Orlando including the new is-phone for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch v2 and the new plug-in release 9.