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Meridian Call Pilot

Increasing enterprise productivity through global unified messaging. Maximizing the effectiveness of your workforce is a constant challenge. In the enterprise business environment, it is crucial to recognize new technologies that can help you accelerate business success. With Call Pilot* Unified Messaging, Avaya Networks delivers a solid platform that will provide improvements in user productivity and allow your business to operate more efficiently.

Call Pilot combines voicemail, fax, and email into a single location that can be accessed from anywhere, whether over the Internet or by telephone. How many hours does your workforce spend running to and from a shared fax machine? How often are your employees unable to check e-mail or faxes while traveling or working off-site?

Call Pilot will give you the ability to bring disparate messaging together and take back the countless hours that are lost during a typical business day.   CallPilot provides powerful mobility solutions that are designed to enhance the efficiency of your employees. Imagine the convenience of being able to check your e-mail from any touchtone phone— including your cell phone! Or being able to access voicemail, e-mail, and even incoming faxes from any Web-enabled multimedia PC.

Key Features

Provides access to e-mail, faxes, and voice-mail from any touchtone phone or PC that is browser-enabled

Improved user productivity and organization through a single messaging access point

Improved user productivity and organization through a single messaging access point

Does not impact e-mail servers or generate high volumes of LAN or WAN traffic

Can be used with a variety of client environments, including Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise, Macintosh, and Citrix

Supports multiple systems, including Meridian V, Succession* 1000, Meridian* SL-100, and CPE Centrex

Call Pilot Unified Messaging

Call Pilot provides you with two powerful ways to maximize the effectiveness of your global workforce:

  1. Access to e-mail, fax, and voicemail via the phone
  2. Access to |e-mail, voicemail, and fax messages from any Web browser-enabled PC

These advanced capabilities will help your employees work more efficiently, both as individuals and as members of workgroups, and are designed to help your business provide best-in-class service and support to your customers and business partners.

 


 

Access By Phone

With Call Pilot, retrieving voice and e-mail messages from any touchtone phone is as easy as speaking the word “Play.” Users can review their e-mail by phone using the powerful Call Pilot Text-to-Speech (TTS) feature, which is capable of reading e-mail aloud in 18 different languages and dialects!

Just pick up any touchtone phone, including a cell phone, and you’ll be able to listen to your e-mail, or print it out on any fax machine. You can also respond to e-mails with a voicemail. And of course, users can easily scan, play back, save, or forward their regular voicemail messages. This cutting-edge technology gives your employees a key advantage over the competition, and can make the difference between missed opportunities and creating successful business relationships.

Empowering users to retrieve e-mail by phone can also deliver very real gains in productivity. Ideal for employees working in the field, Call Pilot eliminates the need to have a computer available to check e-mail. Faxes can also be directed to another user or to other fax machines by using either spoken commands or die telephone dial pad.

 


 

A Winning Choice

Staying connected to customers and business affiliates, while increasing productivity and reducing operating expenses, is key in todays fast-paced business environment. Call Pilot can give your business the advantage it needs to become successful in a world where customers require an immediate response. Whether it’s boosting employee productivity for office workers or enabling better productivity for an organization with mobile workers, Call Pilot Unified Messaging has delivered on its promise of messaging anywhere, anytime, without limits.

 


 

System Compatibility

Call Pilot 2.02

  • Meridian 1 Option 11C
  • Meridian 1 Option 51C
  • Meridian 1 Option 61C
  • Meridian 1 Option 81C
  • Succession 1000

Call Pilot 2.5

  • Meridian SL-100
  • CPE Centrex
  • DMS-100

Does not include Symposium

 


 

Access by PC

Call Pilot gives employees unified access to their messages, including voicemail, faxes, and e-mail, over the Internet from any browser-enabled PC. Instead of simply seeing an envelope icon onscreen that represents e-mail, users will also see telephone and fax machine icons that represent voicemail and incoming faxes. Users can control their mailbox preferences from remote locations, and can access end-user documentation and other useful information online via the My Call Pilot browser interface. For Macintosh users, a Macintosh My Call Pilot Web client is available for customers running Macintosh operating systems 9.0 and 9.1. Additionally, customers using Citrix Metaframe in a Windows terminal server environment can also provide Call Pilot Unified Messaging capabilities to their users.

  • Voice messages can be retrieved and composed with the click of a mouse. Voice messages can be played and recorded using PC speakers and a microphone, a headset, or the users desktop phone, and then sent to other voicemail users or as an attachment via e-mail.
  • Faxes can be received directly into the users Call Pilot voice mailbox. Faxes can be printed locally on a desktop or network printer, printed on another fax machine, or forwarded to another user. In addition, an e-mail or voicemail can be sent in response to a fax that was received. New faxes can also be created and sent, using a custom cover page, to one or multiple users.
  • E-mail can be accessed and replied to quickly and easily, whether the user is in dieir office at the corporate site or halfway around the world. Supported e-mail servers include MS Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Novell GroupWise.

 


 

Symposium Integration

Companies that have implemented a Avaya Networks Symposium* contact center can also take advantage of powerful new voice services offered by the synergy delivered by the integration of Call Pilot 2.02 and Symposium 4.2.

  • Callers who are waiting to speak with an agent can briefly leave the queue, leave a voice message, and then re-enter the queue without losing their place in lineBroadcast announcements can be played informing callers of special promotions, with up to 50 callers supported by a single Call Pilot port
  • Saves money by eliminating the need for Meridian Mail* in contact centers, and facilitates a quick migration from Meridian Mail by importing existing scripts
  • Open voice sessions prompt callers for information and supply expected wait times

Available for Meridian 1 and Succession 1000 systems only.

 


 

Call Pilot In The Network

Call Pilot provides several key network functions, including:

  • Compatibility with Meridian Mail location-specific and network-wide broadcasts
  • Enables a single Call Pilot server to meet die needs of enterprise networks spanning multiple time zones, resulting in reduced equipment costs and simplified system management
  • Supports “Names Across the Network” name dialing, name addressing, and spoken name verification via IP-based VPIM networking. This advanced technology improves network transparency to users, and reduces the potential for misdelivered messages

 


 

Security

Call Pilot also provides several key security features, including strong authentication options as well as message encryption options. CRAM-MD5 Challenge-Response verifies that users and servers are who they claim to be, decreasing the likelihood of a hacker being able to “spoof” a user or messaging server. In addition, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption provides an even greater level of security for your Call Pilot Unified Messaging system.

 


 

Web-based Network Management

Call Pilot Manager provides Web-based administration, reporting, and configuration capabilities from any location. By enabling the network to be managed either from the central site or from a remote location, this innovative Web-based solution increases the effectiveness of key administrative personnel, reducing the total cost of network ownership. The Call Pilot Manager application can be accessed from any browser-enabled PC, eliminating the need to install client software on the remote workstations. Four major management capabilities are provided through the browser-based interface:

  • Routine system management
  • Report generation on operation and performance of the Call Pilot system
  • Wizard-based setup or update for Call Pilot system configurations, typically after an initial install or upgrade of the server
  • Call Pilot documentation

Installation Services


 

The task of equipment installation is conducted in two phases — Evaluation, Recommendation, and Implementation. This service assures your organization that the equipment you purchase will provide the features you need today, and anticipate future needs and technological developments. EARTEL provides you with a complete examination of the market and what is available.

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