Vangard's Mobile Voice Platform to Power Agilysys Suite

Agilysys and Vangard Voice Systems announced today a partnership to voice-enable a wide selection of  Agilysys’ retail solutions. 

Vangard’s Mobile Voice Platform (MVP) is now used to voice-enable applications offered in the NextVision by Agilysys Web-based mobile and wireless retail software suite. Customers using NextVision can now further optimize retail operations by selecting optional voice-powered capabilities for data entry, application function commands, and navigation.
 
Agilysys chose Vangard’s Mobile Voice Platform due to its capabilities to quickly and non-invasively add sophisticated voice capabilities to the company’s Web-based retail applications. NextVision mobile and wireless solutions can now deliver complete device-resident voice capabilities on a wide variety of mobile devices.
 
“Our partnership with Vangard Voice Systems reflects the continuing innovation of Agilysys’ retail mobility strategy,” said Paul Civils, senior vice president and general manager of Agilysys Retail Solutions Group. “Voice-enabling our NextVision mobile and wireless solutions provides our customers with new expanded levels of mobile retail productivity, customer responsiveness, operational efficiency and competitive advantage.”
 
“Vangard’s partnership with Agilysys is a win-win proposition for NextVision customers, offering MVP’s comprehensive mobile voice capabilities with Agilysys’ market leading retail mobile solutions and expertise,” said Bob Bova, president and CEO of Vangard Voice Systems. “Agilysys customers can benefit from the combined excellence of NextVision retail solutions and easily upgrade to new voice capabilities to achieve the next generation of retail operational excellence.”
 
First Voice Powered NextVision Upgrades
The first NextVision voice-enabled applications planned for customer availability include mobile shelf price verification, inventory management and instant alert notification applications offered in the NextCollection and NextManager by Agilysys software solutions. These initial NextVision applications include sophisticated, voice-directed capabilities for data collection, application function commands and navigation.