IPCELERATE INTRODUCES NEXT GENERATION OF AWARD-WINNING NIPA FRAMEWORK

NIPA 2.0 offers advanced technologies and solutions for unified communications across multiple vendors and platforms

September 21, 2009

IPcelerate, Inc., today introduced NIPA 2.0, the next generation framework for the delivery of advanced unified communications products and services across multiple vendor platforms. Core enhancements open the well-established framework and its embedded capabilities and applications to multiple vendors, multiple information sources and multiple devices – at the desktop and for mobile users.

“With this release, we continue to define unified communications, so that it consistently delivers what the name implies –unifying companies and enhancing the way their employees communicate and socialize, and how they interact with one another and with technology in ways that drive business results,” stated Alok Jain, Chief Technology Officer for IPcelerate. “These changes also accelerate the timeline for our company and our development partners to create and bring to market new applications and products that insert unified communications into the fabric of business operations – the fundamental goal of NIPA 2.0.”

Included in NIPA 2.0 are the following:

• A Web Services module which extends the embedded applications and capabilities of the NIPA framework to social networking and business communications applications and databases
• A comprehensive alert, notification, collaboration and messaging engine
• The NIPA 2.0 Thin Client Framework for Mobile Devices (with Web Services embedded), which resides on mobile devices, extending the embedded applications and capabilities of the NIPA framework to the mobile device
• IPfusion 2.0, the next generation drag-and-drop Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which provides easy tools and methodology for IPcelerate and its integrators/development partners to create new products and applications for unified communications, social networking, mobile devices and business process integration

“NIPA 2.0, with the embedded Web Services module, will allow partners to mesh unified communications applications with the business communication and social networking environment, while using the infrastructure resources in which their customers have already invested and are committed,” commented Jain. “NIPA 2.0 products and services will be used to improve collaboration, messaging, alerting, notification and socialization initiatives in conjunction with their unified communications investments. This will help customers meet today’s challenges while protecting – and extending the life of – their investments, which is something most business leaders are looking to do.”

NIPA 2.0 is designed to integrate with many aspects of a customer’s business, as its design focuses not on products but initiatives, processes and results. It inserts unified communications into an organization’s everyday tasks and interactions, maximizing an organization’s utilization of existing technology investments.

“In the economic conditions that exist today, unified communications is no longer about “productivity” – it is about measurable business results,” Kevin Brown, CEO and President of IPcelerate, said. “Can it increase safety in schools? Create a better experience for hospital patients? Help employees get paid faster? Help control employee expenses? Assist in alumni fund-raising activities? Yes, solutions built on NIPA 2.0 can address all these initiatives, and many more.”

NIPA 2.0 also creates a more personal experience – at the desktop computer, desktop phone, or mobile device. This drives higher utilization of a company’s unified communications solutions, and ultimately higher levels of business impact for the organization. For example, NIPA 2.0 customers can create – on the fly, in minutes – personal messaging groups on their IP phone, mobile device or social networking applications. From these groups they can send messages, start conference calls, record conversations – all without administrative intervention.

IPcelerate has experienced strong double digit growth, year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter, in 2009, which has fueled R&D for the company. “Our products and solutions, driven by our partners, are as relevant today in these economic conditions as ever,” stated Brown. “We’ve taken the opportunity over the past year to revisit the business and technology challenges our customers and partners are facing, and we have used this information to make major changes to our framework that will accelerate our joint abilities to bring new solutions to market.”

IPCELERATE ANNOUNCES UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATION SUITE FOR iPHONE AND iPOD TOUCH

Webur™ bridges the chasm between the corporate desktop and the social mobile user by bringing existing business communications applications to mobile devices

September 21, 2009

IPcelerate, Inc. today announced Webur™ for the iPhone and iPod Touch, a new, innovative business telephony experience for the mobile user. Built on the new NIPA 2.0 Mobile Thin Client and Web Services module, Webur™ offers a comprehensive suite of communications, socialization and collaborative solutions. It delivers a wide range of capabilities for the mobile user, including creating and managing personal and corporate groups that are used for messaging, alerting, recording, conferencing, dial-out, and social presence.

Service providers and partners can choose to host Webur™ services, creating recurring revenue streams for themselves. By providing Webur™ in a hosted environment, these partners can offer subscription-based or usage-based services for their customers, delivering business-oriented communications solutions such as recording of mobile calls, mobile-initiated pre-programmed conferences, mass alert notifications, and dial-out applications.

Companies that have deployed corporate unified communications internally (on-premise) can use Webur™ to extend their unified communications features and experience to the mobile user. This enables corporate and social users to use unified communications – beyond physical, geographic or cultural boundaries – in new and more effective ways.

“Webur™ gives the mobile user the freedom to create personal or corporate contact groups that can be used for messaging, dial-out, pre-programmed conferences, paging, alerting, notification – the full suite of corporate communications capabilities provided by unified communications,” said Alok Jain, Chief Technology Officer for IPcelerate. “Webur™ allows users to create, send and manage advanced multi-media messages - using text, audio, image, and location-based information - from their iPhone.”

Additional features offered by Webur™ include:

• Record any or all phone calls made from the mobile device
• Download recorded calls to the mobile device to use for messaging applications
• One-touch initiation of personal conference calls, using personal or corporate groups
• Create a profile of both friends and colleagues for a single point of information
• Check the status of colleagues and the location of other iPhone/iPod Touch users for work and/or security purposes
• Access corporate messaging groups resident on corporate IPsession and add personal contacts to these groups
• Access and initiate a dial-out program resident on corporate IPsession
• Utilize paging and conferencing groups on corporate IPsession

“With Webur™, we wanted to create next generation revenue services for our partners, for service providers, centered around extending critical capabilities like messaging, recording, conferencing, and social presence for the mobile user,” stated Kevin Brown, CEO and President of IPcelerate. “Whether they choose to deliver Webur™ as a hosted offering, a managed service, or an extension of their on-premise offerings, our partners now have the ability to offer yet another highly relevant solution to their customers with new revenue opportunities consistent with their business model and preferences, without regard to the type of unified communications or PBX investment already in place for that customer.”

In the coming months, IPcelerate will introduce future applications for the iPhone to further enhance the mobile user experience and tie back to existing corporate infrastructure investments already in place. “Additionally, using the NIPA 2.0 Mobile Thin Client and the advanced IDE available for the NIPA 2.0 framework, partners and developers will create and deliver new applications and services under their own brand,” commented Jain. “In the end, their success will be driven not only by applications we create, but by their ability and desire to create their own branded applications and services. With Webur™, we have made it significantly easier for them to do so.”