NUANCE AND INFORMATICA JOIN TO DELIVER A NEW GENERATION OF VOICE-ENABLED ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
Business information now accessible over the phone through a natural voice interface
MENLO PARK, Calif. - October 22, 2001 - Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN), the leader in Voice Web software, today announced that Informatica (Nasdaq: INFA), the leading provider of enterprise analytics software, is using Nuance's speech recognition software to voice-enable its Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform. Using a voice interface, Informatica will provide real-time access to critical corporate information from any telephone, anywhere in the world, using simple spoken commands.
The Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform offers real-time delivery of personalized key business metrics to corporate decision-makers, customers and suppliers via voice and a variety of other dashboard-style interfaces. The platform delivers specific alerts, indicators, reports and other views of enterprise information to mobile professionals that need easy to use, real-time access to data away from their computers. Users can ask questions about interdependencies, performance, bottlenecks and breakdowns, strategies and a myriad of other issues.
For instance, on the way to a client meeting, an executive could call the Informatica Mobile solution and ask, “How many widgets were purchased last month,” and immediately receive a spoken answer. With support for multi-modal access delivered from a single server, users are able to request information via voice, keep data in context, and view the same information via another device, such as a WAP-enabled phone. This enables the most appropriate access mechanism to be used. In addition, Informatica Mobile supports remote print-to-fax capability via the voice dashboard as an aid to viewing analytic information, in paper format, while on the road.
“The Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform is unique in integrating voice, wireless, Web and multi-modal access to analytics dashboards and communications tools from a single server. It provides insight throughout the extended enterprise with real-time, point-of-work analytics designed for use by all information consumers,” said Girish Pancha, senior vice president and general manager, platform technologies, Informatica. “It makes sense to integrate with complementary market leaders such as Nuance, who lead the speech recognition space.”
“As businesses become increasingly mobile, it is important to enable employees with access to critical information from anywhere, at anytime,” said Steve Ehrlich, vice president of marketing, Nuance. “Nuance is pleased to help companies like Informatica offer customers real-world solutions that fit the current needs of the market.”
Informatica is leveraging Nuance's market-leading speech recognition engine, Nuance 7.0, to voice-automate the navigation of its analytics platform. In addition, Informatica tapped Nuance's voice interface consulting services to help design the persona, or consistent character of the application and improve overall usability of the voice-driven Informatica implementation. Specifically, the Informatica system leverages Nuance's suite of standard personas. This family of personas enables partners to accelerate application development and decrease time to market while ensuring a consistent, high-quality user experience.
About Informatica
Informatica provides enterprise analytic software that enables decision makers to transform business insight into competitive advantage. Informatica provides the industry's only integrated set of analytic products, including a powerful data integration platform, a suite of cross value chain analytic applications, and real-time delivery of analytics via Web, wireless and voice. More than 1,370 customers, including 60 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica software to integrate, analyze, personalize and deliver critical information to managers, executives and other decision makers to optimize business performance.
Our list of global customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Borders Group, Brocade, Brunswick, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife, Motorola, Orbitz, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint, UBS, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Postal Service. For more information, call +1-800-970-1179, or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/
About Nuance
Nuance is the leader in Voice Web software - speech recognition, voice authentication, text-to-speech and voice-browsing products that make the information and services of enterprises, telecommunications networks and the Internet accessible from any telephone. Every day, millions of people interact with Nuance systems at companies like Japan Telecom, OnStar, Sprint PCS, Sears and UBS. Nuance is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., with global sales offices and partners supporting solutions in multiple languages around the world. For more information about Nuance, visit http://www.nuance.com/or call 1-888-NUANCE-8.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, for example, those relating to the anticipated success of the voice-enabled Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform. There is no assurance that the results contemplated by any forward-looking statements will be realized. The following factors, risks and uncertainties, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described or implied in this press release's forward-looking statements: the risk that Informatica will be unable to implement the voice-enabled application; the risk that voice-enabled application will not result in anticipated productivity gains; and other factors described in Nuance's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to Nuance's last-filed prospectus and quarterly report on form 10-Q. Nuance does not undertake to update any oral or written forward-looking statements that may be made by or on behalf of Nuance.
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BSMG Worldwide
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