Avaya
IP Office Applications: Voicemail
Voicemail Pro
IP Office Voicemail Pro offers all the features and
facilities of Voicemail Lite and can be tailored to meet
the individual needs of a business. It has higher call
capacity by scaling up from 4 to 30 simultaneous calls.
All options are available in a choice of languages; both
spoken voice prompts and graphical programming
interfaces and have the choice of IP Office TUI and
INTUITY emulation TUI.
At the heart of Voicemail Pro is the ability to
construct call flows from a series of different building
blocks. These building blocks allow automation over
tasks like answer a call, listen for tone-dialed digits,
make a call etc. Voicemail Pro call flows allow far more
than just guiding a user to the group or extension they
require. Call flows allow Voicemail Pro to dial back
users as soon as a voicemail message is left for them,
it provides remote access to phone forwarding settings
should a user wish to change their Forwarding or Follow
Me number from an external telephone.
Voicemail Pro provides message handling for individuals
or groups, audio information to callers so assisting the
operator during periods of heavy call activity and links
to business applications through services such as
Text-to-Speech. Voicemail Pro provides a full telephony
applications environment where call flows can be set up
and interact in real time with business workflow
callers can interact via menus and data entry and
Voicemail Pro applications can speak back results. For
example, users can listen to their email messages
through the telephone.
A single PC based Voicemail Pro server can provide
voicemail services to multiple IP Office systems in a
Small Community Network over the LAN, WAN or a Frame
Relay network. This is referred to as 'Centralized
Voicemail' and can reduce costs, while facilitating
communication between IP Office sites.
Other uses for Voicemail Pro include:
Whisper Announce that prompts callers for information
(usually their name) which is recorded and passed on to
the user's extension on answer, allowing them to choose
to accept the call or not. This is particularly useful
on "CLI/ANI withheld" numbers - usually calls from
telesales companies where somebody is trying to sell you
something. Voicemail Pro will not intrude onto busy
extensions.
Assisted Transfer allows transfer of a call to a
destination, but allows the call to return to Voicemail
Pro automatically for other options should the called
party be engaged, or not answer within a pre-determined
time.
Conditional routing of calls. Conditions are
constructed from a set of basic elements. These elements
can be combined within a single condition to create
complex rules. For example, the Week Planner can be used
to define the company's standard working hours, and then
combined with the calendar to define exception days such
as public holidays / vacation.
Call modules. Modules allow you to create sequences of
actions that you want to share between a number of
different call routing scenarios like a macro in PC
applications. These modules can be used to create a
library of vertical voicemail applications or just easy
dissemination to other IP Office voicemail sites, thanks
to its import and export functionality.
Activation of the external relays on the IP Office
system. For example, remotely checking the status of the
office heating and then turning it on from your
Mobile/Cell Phone on your drive in to work.
Finally, a Speaking Clock, that takes its time from
the Voicemail server, is built into Voicemail Pro to
minimize call charges. |