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BroadSoft and Dialog Telecom DialNet
Masters Xtended Contest Challenges Students to Develop Applications
MARKETWIRE via COMTEX
March 27, 2012
Secondary and High School Students Provide Concepts for Consumer and
Enterprise BroadSoft Applications Development That Could Enhance
Dialog's Services
GAITHERSBURG, MD, - BroadSoft, Inc. BSFT +3.33% today announced that
Dialog Telecom/Netia Group, one of the largest telecommunications
service providers in Poland, recently completed an innovative
contest for secondary and high school students to develop
voice-enabled communications applications leveraging BroadSoft
Xtended(TM), the firm's open source development program. |
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Dialog Telecom offers a full portfolio of
communications services (fiber, Internet, voice, IPTV) to business
and residential customers throughout Poland, and recently deployed
the BroadWorks(R) voice application platform to further enable the
delivery of enhanced communications services to its customers.
Last year, BroadSoft(R) partnered with Dialog Telecom for the
DialNet Masters Internet Knowledge Contest, which attracted more
than 40,000 secondary and high school students seeking to showcase
their technology savvy. In 2011, to build on growing enthusiasm
among participants, DialNet added Masters Xtended, a new contest
inviting secondary and high school students to design concepts for
an Xtended application that could be used to enhance communications
services in either Dialog Telecom's consumer or enterprise segments.
BroadSoft Xtended is a ecosystem that gives
developers the opportunity to reach end-users with their
applications and earn ongoing revenues. In addition, BroadSoft's
customer base of global telecommunications service providers can
leverage these innovative communications applications to bring
greater value to their customers. For the Dialnet Masters Xtended
contest, more than 40 new Xtended application concepts for consumers
and enterprises were submitted by secondary and high school
students, ranging from an application for unified communications
integration with social networks to call center plugins and priority
voicemail.
"We were truly amazed by the quality and quantity of Xtended
applications submitted by secondary and high school students -- a
testament to their innovation and the fact that BroadSoft Xtended
leverages open APIs so the applications can be quickly and easily
integrated with BroadWorks-enabled services," said Marta
Pietranik-Pacula, public relations manager, Dialog Telecom. "The
contest is an ideal platform to identify and deliver innovative
services to our customer base."
The three winning applications were:
-- (1stPlace) Prioritizer - Enables users to proactively prioritize
the
most important calls to be received for different situations and
sends
all other calls directly to voicemail based on defined parameters.
The
application is valuable for users' important business meetings or
vacations.
-- (2ndPlace) Social Call Center - A Facebook plugin that enables
voice
access directly from a business's Facebook page, with optional
profile
information that can be passed to a Call Center for quick response
times.
-- (3rdPlace) iKanteen - An application that integrates with
Facebook to
provide a directory of local service companies, black lists and
birthday notifications.
"Dialog has fully embraced the intent of our Xtended program,
utilizing talented developers who leverage our open source
environment to create practical communications applications that can
benefit their customers," said Leslie Ferry, vice president of
marketing, BroadSoft. "We are truly amazed by the creativity of
these high school students, and we hope to partner with Dialog
Telecom and Netia Group on similar initiatives in the future."
For additional information on BroadSoft Xtended and benefits to
service providers visit http://marketplace.broadsoft.com .
About BroadSoft:
BroadSoft provides software that enables
mobile, fixed-line and cable service providers to deliver voice and
multimedia services over their IP-based networks. The Company's
software, BroadWorks(R), enables service providers to provide
enterprises and consumers with a range of cloud-based, or hosted, IP
multimedia communications, such as hosted IP private branch
exchanges, video calling, unified communications, collaboration and
converged mobile and fixed-line services.
BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks of BroadSoft,
Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective owners.
About Dialog:
DIALOG offers fixed line and mobile telecommunication as well as
IPTV services. In December 2011 Dialog joined Netia Group, one of
the largest and the fastest growing telecommunications operator in
Poland, providing comprehensive, integrated and user-friendly
on-line solutions. |
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