Lyrix, a provider of speech-enabled collaboration solutions for mobile and distributed enterprises, announced today the availability of Mobiso, a breakthrough Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution.
Mobiso is a pay-as-you go application that works with existing mobile phones to tie together corporate, personal, and social contacts into a voice-enabled Intelligent Address Book and uses the power of Lyrix’s patented PeopleFind technology to deliver built-in features, including voice dialing, voicemail delivery to email, voice message/broadcast, and instant voice conferencing through Mobiso’s voice recognition interface.
Mobiso makes life easier for the mobile worker and for the IT/Telecom management of the company. For the worker, no more thumbling. By centralizing the key resources a mobile person needs in the cloud and making them available on demand, mobile workers do not have to spend time managing directories with their thumbs, making calls to obsolete numbers, scheduling conferences, or fumbling for numbers. For IT management, Mobiso tracks and reports all business use of the service, eliminating the need for expense reporting and reducing the costs associated with personal liability plans. Further, Mobiso regains control over company information on devices and customer communications to mobile people.
Stewart Hampton, director of sales and marketing at Lyrix, commented: “Users are going to love the features included with Mobiso, but IT and telecom managers will love it more. In these times of rising costs of managing personal and corporate liability plans, the need to separate personal and business calls, and making sure business calls are done safely, our customers appreciate the immediate savings, risk reduction, and mobile employee productivity gains enabled by Mobiso. We’ve created Mobiso with key collaboration features built–in as a CaaS solution without the high upfront and ongoing costs of standard SEAA, UC, or fixed-mobile integration solutions. Mobiso has no requirements for long term contracts and is extremely affordable and easy to deploy. We’ve seen examples of $500 a year ROI per employee as a result of cost reductions alone. With displacement of premise investments I expect we will see a lot more savings than that”
Mobiso features an easy-to-use, IT-free setup, with Web-based administrator interface to allow simple setup of a customized company directory in minutes and customization of employee and outside caller experiences, including speech directory, calling, voice messaging, follow me, and conferencing options with full reports available of each Mobiso users calling records for convenient business expense reporting.
Mobiso 5.2 is the current release with a voice interface that adapts to calling patterns to anticipate collaboration needs. Lyrix has successfully delivered similar customized solutions for centralizing business use and to eliminate expense reports for Ernst & Young and other enterprise clients. Now the company is generalizing it for the market and adding the Blackberry Agent.
Mobiso 6.0, coming in September, will add an “Automated Mobile Intelligent Address Book” incorporating corporate and personal teams and Blackberry and Web features.
>Mobiso 5.2 is available for free trial at www.mobiso.com. Businesses can create or upload a phone directory and play with the Mobiso features for themselves.
Jeff Graham, founder and CEO of Lyrix, added: “Wireless devices are essential for business. They enable unprecedented mobility with their capabilities improving every day. But along with the benefits of mobility and handheld technology, so come costs, problems, and risks, such as the rising costs of managing personal and corporate liability plans. Mobiso, built upon the PeopleFind intelligent address book, is one of a new generation of cloud-based CaaS services designed to improve how increasingly mobile teams connect safely, accurately, and at low cost. With the increasing issues of rapidly expanding wireless use, Mobiso also delivers the enhanced control and visibility over wireless usage so that employers can deploy smarter wireless management programs that reduce costs and risks to the business.
Lyrix will be demonstrating Mobiso at SpeechTEK 2009, August 24-26 in New York.
About Lyrix, Mobiso, and PeopleFind
Mobiso is a cloud-based service for enterprises built upon Lyrix’s PeopleFind technology. PeopleFind, a cloud-based intelligent address book, is a combination of speech engines, proprietary software logic, and proprietary Day2 linguistic services. PeopleFind software is licensed to OEM partners as a foundation for their speech products. Mobiso combines PeopleFind with partner technologies, such as Alcatel’s MyTeamwork, Funambol, and Gotvoice, to provide a cloud-based speech assistant helping mobile workforces better connect and collaborate in the “numberless enterprise.”
Mobiso is an enterprise-grade collaboration solution without the sticker shock. Pay as you go for only what you need. Getting started is easy. Send us your phone list and we’ll set you up with a phone number and secure Web login. For more information please go to: http://www.mobiso.com