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StrikeIron to Demonstrate Cloud-Based Data Quality and Data Communications Solutions at Shop.org Annual Summit
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Denver, CO (PRWEB) September 11, 2012
StrikeIron will be demonstrating its real-time ecommerce suite of data quality and data communications solutions at Shop.org Annual Summit at Booth 861.
We are excited about demoing email verification, address verification, phone validation, sales tax calculation, and SMS text messaging solutions at the Shop.org Annual Summit, said Chris Atkinson, Executive Vice President and General Manager at StrikeIron. Our product portfolio adds significant value for online retailers.
StrikeIrons real-time ecommerce suite ensures online merchants have valid, accurate data on their customers. These data cleansing solutions provide verified email addresses, shipping addresses, and phone numbers.
In addition, StrikeIrons ecommerce suite includes sales tax calculation Web services, which allow tax rates to be calculated from within any shopping cart platform. StrikeIron will also demonstrate its SMS Text Message Solution at the Shop.org Annual Summit. This solution allows you to communicate and engage with customers anytime and anywhere. It enables etailers to easily and instantly send text messages to virtually any cell phone in the world.
If you are interested in meeting a StrikeIron representative at the Shop.org Annual Summit, please email info@strikeiron.com or visit booth 861.
About StrikeIron:
StrikeIron is the leader in Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), delivering data quality and communications solutions via our cloud platform IronCloud. We provide email verification, address verification, phone validation, phone/address/email append, SMS text messaging, and sales tax solutions to customers in a variety of markets. Our solutions are delivered as Web services that can be easily integrated into any application or system. Additionally, our solutions are pre-integrated into leading platforms like: Magento, MarketLive, Eloqua, Salesforce.com, Informatica, Oracle CRM On-Demand and more. Visit us on the web at http://www.strikeiron.com.
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Trucking St. Louis News: Real-Time Communications and Tracking Bolster Efficiency at FW Trucking
Sauget, Illinois (PRWEB) May 21, 2012
The use of real-time communications and GPS tracking for fleet management have made a positive impact at trucking St. Louis leader FW Trucking, lowering costs and improving service for its customers, according to Mark Cusumano, President and CEO of FW Trucking.
Cost savings from the firms real-time communications and monitoring tools have resulted from improvements in three key areas: lower fuel consumption, labor savings and increased productivity. Were seeing better mpg, less idling, more direct routes and fewer extra stops, said Cusumano. In addition to better fuel economy, we are able to more efficiently manage our labor, which in turn has increased our productivity. Each of our employees and each of our vehicles are getting more done. Were able to pass these savings on to our trucking St. Louis customers as well as our customers across the Midwest.
The other major benefit of real-time communications and tracking is improved customer service. FW can keep its customers apprised of each loads exact arrival time and do so in real time. Better communications also means that dispatch and drivers can more effectively work together as a team and can respond faster and more efficiently to emergencies and last minute changes.
FW Trucking is a professionally managed, privately held trucking company centrally located in the St. Louis metropolitan area in Sauget, Illinois. FW offers general trucking, freight shuttle, container transportation and low-cost LTL. The firms primary service areas include: St. Louis, Indianapolis and the following seven states: Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas.
For more information about this leading trucking St. Louis company and its capabilities, visit the Services page of the FW Trucking web site.
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Registration Fee Slashed for Leading Health Care Communications Event at Mayo Clinic
CHICAGO, Ill. (PRWEB) May 09, 2012
Health care communicators wishing to learn from social media experts at the world-famous Mayo Clinic can save $ 500 dollars on the fee for the 4th Annual Health Care Social Media Summit this week only, Ragan Communications reported.
Ragan has temporarily lowered the registration fee for its Annual Health Care Social Media Summit at Mayo Clinics campus in Rochester, Minn., October 16-18.
The price for Engaging patients, employees, and the media in the digital agethe top event on the years health care communications calendarhas dropped to $ 695 from the standard rate of $ 1,195 for those who register by 12 midnight Friday, May 11th.
Those with unlimited budgets can dawdle and pay the full price, said CEO Mark Ragan. But since we always sell out, they risk missing out altogether on this health care ideas bazaar.
The discount applies to multiple employees of the same organization who register for the event. For example, organizations that send four people will pocket $ 2,000 in savings.
Experts will present cutting-edge practices from Mayo Clinics Center for Social Media, Inova Health System, Fox Chase Cancer Center, and Centers for Disease Control (CDC), among others.
Here are just a few of the topics that will be covered in a wide range of sessions:
Unison Is World’s First Free Unified Communications Software
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 9, 2008
Unison, the only fully-unified communications software, is now available free of charge as the world’s first sponsor-supported enterprise application. This move gives millions of SMBs worldwide an exciting zero-cost alternative to high-cost solutions like Microsoft Exchange or simplistic hosted offerings such as Google Apps.
With sponsor-supported Unison now available, any organization can download the Linux and Windows-based software at http://www.unison.com, then deploy it without needing to buy licenses. Unison is:
Free — unlike expensive traditional software such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange unified communications, which costs a typical 50-employee business over $ 100,000 per year to buy and run, according to recent findings by Ferris Research*
More Powerful — Superior to legacy solutions like Exchange or Notes, Unison is the only fully-unified communications available today which integrates email, IM, telephony, calendars and contacts into a single server and client
Secure and Private — Unison runs on-premise, on a Linux server behind the firewall, in contrast to “SaaS-only” hosted solutions like Google Apps
Michael Choupak, chief executive officer of Unison Technologies, the creator of Unison, said, “This represents a new era for the software industry – and a direct challenge to the traditional model of overpriced software. As the first sponsor-supported free business software, Unison gives businesses the combined power of applications like Microsoft Exchange and a Cisco PBX – but at zero cost.”
The first Unison sponsors are Canonical, Inc., the London-based commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu operating system, and Intermedia, the New York-based hosted business applications provider.
Unison provides powerful enterprise unified communications like Microsoft, but with no license fees; and it offers the low cost of Google Apps, except that it runs securely, on-premise, behind the company firewall, so businesses are not forced to host their vital data with Google or any other third party. Unison is the only enterprise-grade unified communications system available at no cost.
Unison combines e-mail, telephone, instant messaging, calendars and contacts into a single system. It includes a Linux-based server, Unison Server, which powers all text and voice communications for an organization, and Unison Desktop, a Windows or Linux-based desktop client that gives employees all communication inside one application, including e-mail, IM, voicemail, telephony and more.
“Microsoft’s CEO said last year that his two greatest challenges are Linux and ad-supported software,” said Rurik Bradbury, Unison Technologies Chief Marketing Officer. “Unison is both of these – fast, powerful, easy-to-use software that is powered by Linux and also sponsor-supported, so it is totally free to use.
With our new enterprise software model, Unison will mount a serious challenge to Microsoft’s highly-profitable Exchange franchise all over the world, especially in developing countries.”
With a single server handling all business messaging, the IT department drastically reduces costs because it no longer needs to purchase and maintain an expensive email or groupware server, a directory server or instant messaging system and a separate PBX system.
In addition, end users get Unison Desktop, which runs on Microsoft Windows or on Linux. Unison Desktop provides broader functionality than traditional e-mail and groupware clients which offer only e-mail, contacts and calendar management because it gives users always-synchronized access to their e-mail, instant messages, telephone calls, voicemails, calendars, address books and more, all from a single application.
Unison is available for any organization to download and use at http://www.unison.com.
*Source: Ferris Research, The Total Cost of Ownership of Microsoft Unified Communications, November 2008. The research concluded that buying and operating the Microsoft solution will cost a typical 50-employee company an average of $ 180 per user per month, which equates to $ 2160 per user each year or $ 108,000 per year for the company.
About Unison and Unison Technologies:
Unison Technologies is the developer of Unison, the world’s first fully-unified communications system. Combining telephony, e-mail, instant messaging and collaboration in a single Linux server and Windows or Linux desktop client, Unison allows companies to work more quickly and intelligently. By bringing all communication into a single platform, it makes unified communications attainable for millions of businesses worldwide. A privately held company, Unison Technologies is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Boston and St Petersburg, Russia. More information is available at http://www.unison.com.
Media contacts:
EMEA/Asia:
Nathalie van Krimpen
Bite Communications for Unison
Nathalie.Vankrimpen at bitepr dot com
+44 (0)20 8 834 3415
Pamela Block
Bite Communications for Unison
Pamela.Block at bitepr dot com
+1 212 857 9384
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Unison Is World’s First Free Unified Communications Software
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 9, 2008
Unison, the only fully-unified communications software, is now available free of charge as the world’s first sponsor-supported enterprise application. This move gives millions of SMBs worldwide an exciting zero-cost alternative to high-cost solutions like Microsoft Exchange or simplistic hosted offerings such as Google Apps.
With sponsor-supported Unison now available, any organization can download the Linux and Windows-based software at http://www.unison.com, then deploy it without needing to buy licenses. Unison is:
Free — unlike expensive traditional software such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange unified communications, which costs a typical 50-employee business over $ 100,000 per year to buy and run, according to recent findings by Ferris Research*
More Powerful — Superior to legacy solutions like Exchange or Notes, Unison is the only fully-unified communications available today which integrates email, IM, telephony, calendars and contacts into a single server and client
Secure and Private — Unison runs on-premise, on a Linux server behind the firewall, in contrast to “SaaS-only” hosted solutions like Google Apps
Michael Choupak, chief executive officer of Unison Technologies, the creator of Unison, said, “This represents a new era for the software industry – and a direct challenge to the traditional model of overpriced software. As the first sponsor-supported free business software, Unison gives businesses the combined power of applications like Microsoft Exchange and a Cisco PBX – but at zero cost.”
The first Unison sponsors are Canonical, Inc., the London-based commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu operating system, and Intermedia, the New York-based hosted business applications provider.
Unison provides powerful enterprise unified communications like Microsoft, but with no license fees; and it offers the low cost of Google Apps, except that it runs securely, on-premise, behind the company firewall, so businesses are not forced to host their vital data with Google or any other third party. Unison is the only enterprise-grade unified communications system available at no cost.
Unison combines e-mail, telephone, instant messaging, calendars and contacts into a single system. It includes a Linux-based server, Unison Server, which powers all text and voice communications for an organization, and Unison Desktop, a Windows or Linux-based desktop client that gives employees all communication inside one application, including e-mail, IM, voicemail, telephony and more.
“Microsoft’s CEO said last year that his two greatest challenges are Linux and ad-supported software,” said Rurik Bradbury, Unison Technologies Chief Marketing Officer. “Unison is both of these – fast, powerful, easy-to-use software that is powered by Linux and also sponsor-supported, so it is totally free to use.
With our new enterprise software model, Unison will mount a serious challenge to Microsoft’s highly-profitable Exchange franchise all over the world, especially in developing countries.”
With a single server handling all business messaging, the IT department drastically reduces costs because it no longer needs to purchase and maintain an expensive email or groupware server, a directory server or instant messaging system and a separate PBX system.
In addition, end users get Unison Desktop, which runs on Microsoft Windows or on Linux. Unison Desktop provides broader functionality than traditional e-mail and groupware clients which offer only e-mail, contacts and calendar management because it gives users always-synchronized access to their e-mail, instant messages, telephone calls, voicemails, calendars, address books and more, all from a single application.
Unison is available for any organization to download and use at http://www.unison.com.
*Source: Ferris Research, The Total Cost of Ownership of Microsoft Unified Communications, November 2008. The research concluded that buying and operating the Microsoft solution will cost a typical 50-employee company an average of $ 180 per user per month, which equates to $ 2160 per user each year or $ 108,000 per year for the company.
About Unison and Unison Technologies:
Unison Technologies is the developer of Unison, the world’s first fully-unified communications system. Combining telephony, e-mail, instant messaging and collaboration in a single Linux server and Windows or Linux desktop client, Unison allows companies to work more quickly and intelligently. By bringing all communication into a single platform, it makes unified communications attainable for millions of businesses worldwide. A privately held company, Unison Technologies is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Boston and St Petersburg, Russia. More information is available at http://www.unison.com.
Media contacts:
EMEA/Asia:
Nathalie van Krimpen
Bite Communications for Unison
Nathalie.Vankrimpen at bitepr dot com
+44 (0)20 8 834 3415
Pamela Block
Bite Communications for Unison
Pamela.Block at bitepr dot com
+1 212 857 9384
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Unison Extends Free Unified Communications to Ubuntu
New York, NY (Vocus) February 25, 2009
Unison unified communications, the world’s first free enterprise software, has released a Linux version of its software in addition to the Windows version. Now out of beta, Unison Desktop for Ubuntu will challenge Microsoft’s Outlook/Exchange and communications franchise with a more powerful – yet free – alternative. Unison Technologies also released a production version of Unison Server for Ubuntu, in addition to the existing version for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.
Because Unison for Ubuntu combines all communication – telephone, voicemail, e-mail, IM and more – into a single server and desktop client, it gives millions of SMBs worldwide the option of a ‘Microsoft-free desktop’.
Aimed at small and medium businesses with up to 2000 staff, Unison gives users even more power than traditional e-mail and groupware tools like Exchange or Domino, but at zero cost, thanks to the new advertising-supported version. It is available as a free download at http://www.unison.com.
“We are excited to expand unified communications to Ubuntu users at zero cost,” said Rurik Bradbury, CMO of Unison Technologies. “Instead of deploying the Windows version of Unison Desktop, companies can run the client on Ubuntu, which is just as powerful, yet far less costly than overpriced traditional software such as Microsoft Windows and Outlook.”
Unison is a complete replacement for both PBX systems and legacy e-mail servers like Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino. Unison Server integrates a powerful IP-PBX system together with a messaging server. This allows it to power e-mail, instant messaging and real-time presence (free/busy status) alongside telephony, with connections to IP telephones, desktop softphones, mobile devices and traditional telephone lines – all from a single system.
Any organization can now download the free or paid edition – either for Linux or Windows – at http://www.unison.com, and deploy it without needing to buy licenses.
About Unison and Unison Technologies
Unison unified communications is the world’s first free enterprise software. Combining telephony, e-mail, instant messaging and collaboration in a single Linux server and single Windows or Linux desktop client, Unison allows companies to work more quickly and intelligently. By bringing all communication into a single platform, supported by sponsors and free of charge, Unison makes unified communications attainable for millions of businesses worldwide.
Unison Technologies is the developer of Unison, the world’s first fully-unified communications system. A privately held company, Unison Technologies is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Boston and St Petersburg, Russia. More information is available at http://www.unison.com.
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Visual Communications Industry Group, VCI-Group, hosts The Open Visual Communications Consortium, OVCC, Virtual Education Session on April 26, 2012
Minneapolis, Minnisota (PRWEB) April 25, 2012
Visual Communications Industry Group, VCI-Group, hosts The Open Visual Communications Consortium, OVCC, Virtual Education Session on April 26, 2012.
The Visual Communications Industry Group, VCI-Group, will host a virtual education session led by The Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) Vice President and Polycom Director John Poole. The session, entitled ‘Interoperability: An OVCC / Carrier Industry Update & Status’, will focus on the status of interoperability in the videoconferencing industry and is offered at no cost to VCI-Group members.
This session will focus on the importance of interoperability for worldwide adoption and deployment of visual communications products and services. The session will also explore the impact and isolation created in the business and social communities when visual solutions are not interoperable.
The Open Visual Communications Consortium, OVCC, is a non-profit organization of worldwide communications technology leaders working together to enable video collaboration across any network, vendor platform and device. OVCC membership is open to any video communications network service provider (NSP), video communications managed or hosted service provider (MSP) or video network operations center (VNOC) provider interested in bringing ubiquitous video to the marketplace.
The Visual Communications and Industry Group, VCI-Group, the knowledge-sharing user community that shapes the Visual Communications Industry, is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to working to influence the development of industry-based standards for multimedia collaboration technologies and applications, to improve industry products and services, and to facilitate the exchange of information among its members.
We are pleased to work closely with the OVCC, to deliver learning sessions like this one to our membership, said Stephen Demmings, President of VCI-Group. One of the goals of the VCI-Group is to keep our constituency up to date and informed about the most important and member impacting industry issues and opportunities, and our regular Brown Bag education sessions are one tool that helps us achieve that goal.
Our unique community of end-user members, he continued, includes equipment resellers, integrators, and manufacturers. This complete community allows us to be the single voice for the Industry, and we always strive to keep our members well informed and up to date on the status of key issues within the industry. This is but one of the many issues we address during the information and training track of our annual event to be held in Monterey, California in October of this year.
VCI-Group focuses on facilitating educational and peer networking in the conferencing and collaboration industry. In addition to providing access to education, training, learning programs and hot-off-the-press news and information, VCI-Groups driving force is to keep the membership very well informed and connected to their network of member professionals.
VCI-Group members can register for this session at http://www.vci-group.org/events/BrownBagSchedule.aspx. For more information about VCI-Group and becoming a member, visit http://www.vci-group.org. The VCI-Group 2012 annual conference will be held in Monterey, California, on October 22-24, 2012. For more information on membership and the 2012 VCI-Group Annual Conference in Monterey, California at the Monterey Hyatt Regency Hotel and Spa, go to http://www.vci-group.org.
First-ever PR Daily Awards Finalists Announced by Ragan Communications
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 20, 2012
Ragan Communications and its public relations news website, PRDaily.com, announced today the finalists in Ragans first annual public relations contest, the PR Daily Awards presented by Ragan and Dow Jones.
PRDaily.com is the No. 1 international online news site in the industry.
The PR Daily Awards finalist list comprises more than 250 entries from corporations, public relations and government agencies and nonprofits contending in 45 categories in traditional and social-media public relations.
The winners will be announced at a special luncheon ceremony in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2012, in conjunction with the Public Relations Best Practices Summit conference held at the Newseum. The conference is sponsored by Ragan and Dow Jones.
Lauren Yanow, the Awards Coordinator for Ragan, noted that the response to the PR Daily Awards exceeded everyones expectations: We received hundreds and hundreds of entries. It was a bit overwhelmingbut very satisfying.
Mark Ragan, CEO, Ragan Communications, said, Three facts about the PR Daily Awards really struck me:
Ragan Communications and PR Daily Announce All-Intensive PR Measurement Workshop
New York, NY (PRWEB) April 18, 2012
Ragan’s PR Dailys one-day training event for PR communicators:
PR Measurement Boot Camp:
A practical, how-to workshop on measuring your PR and proving and improving the ROI of your PR
May 15, 2012
New York, NY
Dr. David Rockland and Jennifer Fravel, two Ketchum Global Research executives, will instruct this PR measurement boot camp. They provide more than 20 years of experience in public relations.
Rockland and Fravel will teach boot camp attenders how to:
