TechSpan Teams With General Magic to Expand Voice Practice
Companies Form Alliance to Deliver Integrated Voice Solutions to Fortune 100 Companies
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sep 6, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- General Magic, Inc. (Nasdaq: GMGC chart, msgs), a leader in voice infrastructure software, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance with TechSpan, a worldwide leader in distributed consulting. The combination of General Magic's voice technologies and TechSpan's consulting strengths will enable the companies to deliver powerful voice-enabled e-business solutions to Fortune 100 enterprises. TechSpan has licensed General Magic's Enterprise Platform for its development teams and will begin developing voice solutions for its clients using the magicTalk(R) Enterprise Platform. The magicTalk Enterprise Platform will serve as the foundation for TechSpan's expanding voice practice, which has a number of enterprise customers looking to implement voice solutions.
"With this alliance, we can now offer exceptional voice solutions to the B2B collaboration, enterprise information portal, CRM, and supply chain management arenas," said Kathie Layton, chief executive officer and president of General Magic. "TechSpan's distributed consulting business combines competencies in voice, Web infrastructure, networking and software development and their strengths are exemplified by their impressive list of customers and partners including BEA Systems, Sun Microsytems, Cisco, and AT&T."
General Magic's innovative magicTalk Enterprise Platform software represents an "industry first" in combining standards-based VoiceXML with dynamic reusable voice components architected in compliance with Java(TM) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)). The combination enables Java developers to extend the boundaries of e-business through the rapid integration of personalized, conversational voice applications with existing enterprise systems. In addition, the magicTalk Enterprise Platform will leverage existing enterprise and e-business infrastructure investments while reducing application development time.
"The relationship between TechSpan and General Magic demonstrates both companies' commitment to proliferating high-value, cost-effective voice solutions integrating best-of-breed software with comprehensive consulting services," said Nicki Mehra, managing partner of TechSpan. "General Magic's magicTalk Enterprise Platform will be the foundation for the voice solutions we will offer our customers."
Using the magicTalk Enterprise Platform, General Magic and TechSpan will offer Fortune 100 companies voice solutions that boost employee productivity, increase revenues and enhance the customer experience, while extending existing application functionality.
About General Magic
General Magic is a leading voice infrastructure company that provides enterprise-grade software and supporting voice dialog design and hosting services that enable companies to quickly and efficiently provide anytime, anywhere access to information and services over the telephone. General Magic's VoiceXML & J2EE(TM)-based solutions enable enterprises to easily integrate voice access into enterprise applications using a broad selection of speech recognition technologies and telephony interfaces. These solutions make voice a strategic tool in helping businesses improve the customer experience, reduce transaction costs, and provide high quality, voice branded access to content and services. General Magic is headquartered in Sunnyvale. For additional information, visit www.generalmagic.com.
About TechSpan
TechSpan is an e-Business integration company delivering end-2-end web enablement solutions. TechSpan's collaborative solutions assist its clients and vendor partners to address their critical IT issues to stay ahead of the increasing demand for web enablement. TechSpan leverages its client solutions through its global Distributed Consulting(TM) architecture to harness and deploy the appropriate resources to each task.
TechSpan has six focused areas of expertise: B2B Markets, Enterprise Application Enablement (EAI), Enterprise Information Portal enablement (EIP), Quality Assurance (QA), Mobile Internet enablement (m-commerce) and Application Management. TechSpan, Inc. is a privately held firm founded in 1998. Venture investors include Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS chart, msgs) and Walden International Investment Group. For more information on TechSpan please visit them on the World Wide Web at www.techspan.com.
General Magic notes that the forward-looking statements in this press release involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause industry trends, or actual results, performance or achievement to be materially different from any future trends, results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these statements. These include, among others, risks and uncertainties concerning the adequacy of the Company's financial resources to execute its business plan; including the Company's ability to raise capital in the current financial markets; market acceptance of the Company's voice application products and services; the Company's ability to generate sufficient revenues from its products and services to operate profitably; the risk that the Company's stock maybe delisted from The Nasdaq National Market; the Company's ability to attract, retain and motivate key technical, marketing and management personnel; the ability of the Company to establish and maintain relationships with businesses that have high volume customer interactions, and to establish alliances with companies that offer technology solutions for such businesses; the challenges inherent in the development, delivery and implementation of complex technologies; the ability of the Company's third party technology partners to timely develop, license or support technology necessary to the Company's services; and the Company's ability to respond to competitive developments. These and other risks and uncertainties are detailed in General Magic's Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 14, 2001.
Note to Editors: General Magic and magicTalk are trademarks of General Magic, Inc., which are registered in some jurisdictions.
Contact:
General Magic, Sunnyvale
Erin Collopy, 408/774-4225
erin@generalmagic.com
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TSI Communications
Andrea Gordon, 650/635-0200 ext. 203
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