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Vangard Voice Systems and Excalibur Integrated Systems Partner to Deliver New Voice Productivity to Enterprise-Wide Mobile Applications
Excalibur Customer, Shaw Industries Adopts Vangard Mobile Voice Platform to Further Cut Operational Costs and Improve Customer Service
IRVINE, Calif., May 12, 2009 Vangard Voice Systems, Inc. (Vangard), the innovative provider of the AccuSpeech® Mobile Voice Platform (MVP) for voice powering mobile enterprise applications, announced the company's partnership with Excalibur Integrated Systems, a recognized industry leader specializing in solutions for field mobility, data collection and secure wireless networks. Using Vangard's Mobile Voice Platform, Excalibur will offer its enterprise-class customers the ability to add voice-directed data capture, navigation and control capabilities to their existing mobile applications.
Excalibur's customers include industry leaders like Shaw Industries, the world's leading floor manufacturer. Shaw Industries, in collaboration with Excalibur, recently adopted Vangard's Mobile Voice Platform to optimize their existing mobile supply chain applications and business processes with high productivity 'hands-free, eyes-free' voice-directed capabilities. Shaw will exploit Vangard's MVP wherever they see opportunities to further speed product delivery, improve customer service and reduce operational costs.
"Vangard's Mobile Voice Platform is an ideal and timely solution for complementing Excalibur's enterprise productivity mobility solutions," said, Rodger Jenkins, chief executive officer of Excalibur Integrated Systems. "MVP's device-resident approach for adding voice-productivity to existing server, web or device-based mobile applications, enables our customers to further voice-optimize a broader base of mobile business processes."
"Particularly now, in a struggling economy, our partnership with Excalibur represents a significant business opportunity for enterprise customers to significantly impact operational costs," said Bob Bova, president and chief executive officer of Vangard Voice Systems. "The combination of Excalibur's expertise in high-impact field mobility and data collection solutions combined with our Mobile Voice Platform provides enterprise customers with new cost-efficient solutions for achieving new levels of mobile worker productivity, driving down operational costs and protecting profit margins."
About Excalibur Integrated Systems
Founded in 1981, Excalibur Integrated Systems is a leading provider of reliable total wireless and mobile communications solutions. Excalibur provides its customers with professional design, implementation and support for systems that provide mobile access to mission-critical information. The company's solutions make business operations more efficient and more profitable by using the latest wireless network and Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) technologies. Excalibur Integrated Systems has been recognized by Inc. 5000 in 2007 and 2008 as one of the fastest growing companies in America. For more information: www.excaliburis.com
About Vangard Voice Systems
Vangard Voice Systems is the innovative provider of the AccuSpeech® Mobile Voice Platform (MVP) for enterprise-wide voice productivity deployment. MVP enables enterprises to achieve tactical, operational and strategic advantage by adding voice-directed hardware and application controls, navigation and data entry capabilities to existing mobile applications and business processes. The Mobile Voice Platform: provides one common, full lifecycle, platform solution; voice-enabling existing web-device, and server-based mobile applications, using complete device-resident voice operations. MVP complies with enterprise standards with device-, application- and network-independence.
Vangard's partners include Wavelink Corporation, Agilysys, Excalibur Integrated Systems, Nuance Communications, Avnet and Ingram Micro. Vangard solutions are available to government agencies on the GSA schedule. Vangard Voice is a Motorola PartnerSelect ISV partner and its voice technology is proven to operate effectively on a wide variety of devices including Motorola, Intermec, LXE, PsionTeklogix, Opticon and others. For more information, go to www.vangardvoice.com.
AccuSPEECH® is a registered trademark of Vangard Voice Systems, Inc. in the United States.