Post# 43891 of 89565 QUOTE: Amanda Company (OBB : AMNA)
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The Amanda Company Announces Availability of Amanda Global Attendant
PR Newswire via COMTEX
May 7, 2002 7:00:00 AM
IRVINE, Calif., May 7, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
The Amanda Company (OTC Bulletin Board: AMNA) ( www.theamandacompany.com ), a leading supplier of call processing software, integrated solutions, and systems for industry-standard PC platforms, announced today the availability of their enterprise solution Amanda Global Attendant.
The Amanda Global Attendant is built as an enterprise solution on the Amanda Portal platform, a network centric call processing and messaging platform. 'This enterprise application implemented using Amanda Portal is an ideal example of the extensible, network architecture that we specifically designed into the product from the ground up over four years of research and development,'said Dr. Tim Morgan, Vice President of Technology.
'The Amanda Global Attendant allows for a company's multiple offices to have their incoming calls managed by a network of Amanda Portals to present to their callers a single, seamless, system that allows for call routing, call transfers, busy queuing, call distribution, and voice messaging, company wide regardless of location,'Dr. Morgan said. 'Furthermore, it can manage those calls using VoIP or the traditional PSTN.'
'One of the major value propositions for the Amanda Global Attendant is the ability to distribute calls over multiple offices,'said Mr. Brian Bonar, Chairman of the Board. 'This allows a company to leverage its employees for sales and support coverage by better managing call loads and time zones over geographically dispersed office locations.'
Mr. Stephen Fryer, Director, added that, 'Amanda Global Attendant is an ideal solution for those companies that want to present a single, memorable, telephone number to their customers and be able to transfer those calls cost effectively to any of the company's offices. Getting callers to the right people regardless of their location.'
The Amanda Company ( www.theamandacompany.com ), of Irvine, California, is a convergence and innovation technology company with roots in the voice-processing space. Amanda's principal software product is a client server telephony enabled software solution optimized for Microsoft's Windows operating systems. Utilizing the worldwide public switched telephone network and both Intranet and Internet computer based technologies, Amanda seamlessly integrates the computer and the telephone enabling the PC to be the communications medium. The Amanda Company currently has a network of over 500 dealers that resell the Amanda Company line of products to the small business market and four distribution houses strategically located in the country serving more than 25,000 independent dealers. Amanda based software has been sold to more than 60,000 small business users.
Statements in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including the failure to complete successfully the development of new or enhanced products, the Company's future capital needs, the lack of market demand for any new or enhanced products the Company may develop, any actions by the Company's partners that may be adverse to the Company, the success of competitive products, other economic factors affecting the Company and its markets, seasonal changes, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The actual results may differ materially from those contained in this press release. The Company disclaims any obligation to update any statements in this press release.
CONTACT: Stephen J. Fryer of The Amanda Company, +1-949-859-6279, steve.fryer@taa.com
