LocusDialog Parnters with NACR; LocusDialog Teams Up With NEC Business Network Solutions

MONTREAL, CANADA - LocusDialog announces an agreement with North American Communications Resources (NACR) to market and distribute its LocusDialogSTS suite of speech telephony solutions. LocusDialog designs and creates multi-lingual speech-enabled call-routing solutions for small, medium and large organizations in a range of vertical markets. Minnesota-based NACR is a provider of complete AVAYA communications systems and solutions. The first National Avaya Business Partner to win the AVAYA ALTI award for outstanding business performance and achievements for two years in a row, NACR is widely recognized as AVAYA's foremost call center solution provider. The agreement gives LocusDialog access to the AVAYA customer base, and enables the company to continue its drive towards mass-market acceptance of speech as the preferred telephony interface. Larry Lisser, vice president, sales and marketing for LocusDialog is emphatic, "Offering our speech solutions through such a distinguished AVAYA distributor as NACR underscores LocusDialog's continuing success in delivering state-of-the -art enterprise speech telephony applications through today's leading telecom distributors." "We are greatly pleased that our company is now associated with LocusDialog," declares Tom Roles, NACR president and CEO. "The speech recognition application s developed by LocusDialog perfectly complement the advanced AVAYA telecom solutions we offer our clients. We're convinced that many of our clients will derive enormous advantages from adding speech applications and functionali ty to their infrastructures." LocusDialog Teams Up With NEC Business Network Solutions MONTREAL, CANADA - LocusDialog announces an agreement with NEC Business Network Solutions (NEC BNS) to market and distribute its LocusDialogSTS suite of speech telephony solutions. NEC "Fusion-Certified" LocusDialogSTS systems offer enterprises and contact centers speech-enabled call routing applications and personal assistance capabilities. Callers ask for whom they want and get connected without needing a live operator. The systems offer digital integratio n to the full NEC NEAX line. Larry Lisser, vice president, sales and marketing for LocusDialog notes, "Offering our speech solutions through NEC BNS marks another milestone in our continuing corporate success in delivering advanced, easily implemented enterprise speech telephony solutions through prestigious and well established channels." LocusDialog's current installed base of more than 600 speech-enabled systems operating worldwide is already unequalled in the speech telephony industry. "We are pleased that NEC BNS is now a distributor of the LocusDialogSTS product suite" says William Holman, senior vice president of sales for NEC BNS. "LocusDialog's speech applications fully complement the full suite of network services and solutions we offer. We are confident that our customers will derive enormous advantages from adding speech applications and functionality to their infrastructures."