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Press Release
BROADSOFT ENABLES BULLDOG TELEWORKS TO OFFER ENHANCED
VOICE SERVICES INTEGRATED WITH SPECIALIZED BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
TO VERTICAL MARKETS
Applications Target Professional Services Firms
such as Legal, Accounting, Consulting and Real Estate
GAITHERSBURG, MD, December 4, 2002 - BroadSoft®,
Inc., the leading provider of voice applications and servers, today
announced that BullDog TeleWorks, Inc., an innovative provider of
advanced voice, data and information technology services, will use
BroadSoft's award-winning BroadWorks platform to provide integrated
voice and business-process solutions to professional services firms.
BullDog TeleWorks is the first provider of business-process solutions
to use the advantages of a next-generation network to bring economies
of scale, lower operational costs and advanced information systems
to small and mid-sized companies that would otherwise be unable
to afford these services. BullDog TeleWorks is initially targeting
law firms with its solution that integrates a customized BroadWorks
platform with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) features. The company will then expand to
offer enhanced services to other small and mid-size professional
services firms such as accounting, consulting and real estate.
For the legal market, BullDog delivers voice services such as advanced
call screening and provides billing integration with the phone system,
capabilities previously affordable only to large enterprises. Advanced
call screening allows attorneys to become more accessible to their
clients, while protecting personal time from the intrusion of non-urgent
matters. Billing integration enables attorneys to automate a laborious,
non-billable task, thereby saving time while also improving billing
accuracy.
"This is a strategic partnership for BullDog TeleWorks, as
voice services are a key differentiator for our clients. We selected
BroadSoft because BroadWorks has the most comprehensive feature
set that we have found in the industry," said Jon Jaroker,
CEO of BullDog TeleWorks. "BroadWorks has extremely flexible
and robust service creation and web interface customization capabilities
that allow seamless integration with a wide array of databases and
back-office systems."
Several law firms are currently using BullDog TeleWorks' services,
which will be generally available in the first quarter of 2003.
One user, Robert J. deBrauwere of the New York intellectual property
and media law firm Jacobs deBrauwere LLP, commented, "Almost
everything I do is on my desktop computer. Controlling my phone
service - modifying the features, transferring calls, and receiving
voicemail as a wave file in email - contributes significantly to
my productivity. The call screening and simultaneous ringing functions
also greatly help by enabling me to prioritize client access in
urgent situations, ensuring that critical calls always get through."
Another BullDog TeleWorks user, Michael J. Marcin of the New York
intellectual property law firm of Fay Kaplun & Marcin LLP, added,
"Tying the phone system to a billing application is a major
asset that saves time. BullDog is a very powerful service and easy
to use - you can learn to use it in ten minutes."
"BullDog TeleWorks is demonstrating to the industry the business
advantage of integrating critical business functions and making
them easy-to-use and competitively priced," said Mike Tessler,
president and CEO, BroadSoft. "BullDog fulfills the vision
of serving vertical markets in a way that was never before possible.
The BroadWorks' feature set enables BullDog to deliver on their
commitment of providing small and medium-sized customers with the
same types of communications features and application benefits available
to Fortune 500 enterprises. We are very enthusiastic about continuing
to work with them to further develop advanced communication solutions."
BroadWorks is the industry's first integrated system of voice applications
and servers enabling service providers to deliver basic and enhanced
voice services to enterprises. BroadWorks' voice applications and
servers enable providers to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy
a comprehensive portfolio of carrier-class telephony services such
as IP Centrex, hosted PBX, voice VPN, and enhanced network applications.
Using BroadWorks, service providers and customer administrators
can manage administrative functions with BroadSoft's patented web-based
portal, CommPilot. The BroadWorks architecture can
scale to support millions of subscribers and deliver 99.999% total
system availability.
ABOUT BULLDOG TELEWORKS
BullDog TeleWorks develops and markets advanced voice and data solutions
to small and mid-sized professional service firms that enable these
businesses (for the first time) to afford sophisticated communications
applications that improve productivity, reduce costs and streamline
operations. BullDog's services are integrated with and delivered
through a centrally managed phone system (generally known as a PBX)
that has all of the features and benefits of a large company PBX
but without any upfront capital costs or recurring maintenance expense.
Using BullDog TeleWorks' services, attorneys, accountants, consultants
and other types of knowledge-based and communications-intensive
professionals obtain business-process solutions specifically tailored
to their business needs - such as billing and client management
- by simply picking up a telephone.
BullDog TeleWorks' patent-pending technology includes a process
for high-accuracy, real-time transcription of telephone calls and
voice mail, as well as a process for the delivery of enhanced services
in parallel with an incumbent phone company, providing its customers
a way to obtain advanced communications services in a risk-free
manner. Additional information can be found at www.BullDogTel.com.
ABOUT BROADSOFT
BroadSoft, Inc. is the leading provider of voice applications and
servers for service providers. BroadWorks, the company's flagship
product, allows service providers to rapidly and economically design
and deploy web-enabled enhanced telephony services to their customers.
BroadSoft holds the largest market share in the IP Centrex and Hosted
PBX space with the most announced customers to date. BroadSoft has
received extensive industry acknowledgement including recognition
as a "Hot Start-Up" by America's Network and Telecommunications
magazines, two of the leading telecommunications industry publications.
Communications Solutions, Internet Telephony and Network Magazine
recognized BroadWorks as Product of the Year. BroadSoft is located
near Washington, DC, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and also maintains
a research and development facility in Montreal, Canada. Additional
information can be found at www.broadsoft.com.
For further information contact:
BroadSoft
Hilary Tomasson
+ (240) 364-5147
htomasson@broadsoft.com
For BullDog TeleWorks
Barbara Krasnoff
BullDog TeleWorks, Inc.
+ (212) 292-4969
bkrasnoff@bulldogtel.com
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BroadSoft is a registered trademark and BroadWorks and CommPilot
are trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. All other names are trademarks
of their respective companies.
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