re: interface to corporate e-mail
at the NYC annual meeting, dr. markmann inidicated that when they start targeting the large corporate user market (the current strategy is to tackle one market at a time, starting with small businesses a.k.a. without firewalls, then PIM manufacturers, then cellular service providers, then corporate users) they will have 3rd party "bridge" software that will allow portico to interface with your company's Octel and internal e-mail system.
so, your company has to make a corporate decision to utilize portico for it's people in order to get the 100% seamless integration. and you will probably have to wait until '99 for the corporate market activities to heat up.
in the meantime, you can instruct portico to ring your office phone 4 times (one short of your company voice mail picking up) and then to transfer the caller to your portico voice mail. for e-mail, you may have to set up the forwarding option on your current mail, which has some obvious drawbacks.
for your quesion about replying, it was my understanding that you can voice-queue a reply message, and that the content of your reply would be in a .wav file (i.e., the recipient double-clicks it and hears your actual voice reply)
-mg |
