SOURCE: BroadSoft, Inc.
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March 19, 2008 14:13 ET
VON Magazine Recognizes BroadSoft With Top 10 Innovator Award
VON Magazine Acknowledges BroadSoft's Leadership in Mashing Up Voice With Web 2.0 Applications
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - March 19, 2008) - BroadSoft Inc. today announced that it has
been recognized by VON Magazine as one of the publication's Top 10
Innovator Award winners for its Web 2.0 mashup of the BroadWorks® VoIP
application platform with the Salesforce.com CRM application.
The award comes on the heels of the launch of BroadSoft Xtended,
the company's Web 2.0 initiative that provides tools and an online
marketplace for third-party developers to create and distribute
applications that integrate with the advanced voice and video calling
features of BroadSoft's BroadWorks platform. BroadSoft Xtended brings voice
to the web-based services and applications that millions of people use
every day.
The Innovator Award honored BroadSoft for its Unified Connector for
Salesforce, which enables enterprises to use their carrier-grade VoIP
calling features -- such as call control, call hold and call transfer --
within the customer relationship management features in Salesforce.
"This recognition from VON Magazine underscores BroadSoft's efforts to
remain a leader in the VoIP Industry and beyond," said Scott Wharton, vice
president of Marketing. "BroadSoft has always been committed to innovation,
and this award is further testament to the hard work, ingenuity and
creativity of the many talented people who work here."
Offered by Pulver Media and VON Magazine, the VON Innovator Awards honor
start-ups and publicly traded companies that represent the future of
Internet Communications.
"The VON Magazine Innovator Awards recognize the Internet Communications
industry's best and brightest companies, and we're pleased to include
BroadSoft as an inaugural winner," said Bill Sell, Publisher, VON Media
Group. "Companies like BroadSoft should take pride in their
accomplishments, because the selection committee unanimously felt as though
they stood apart from the large field of companies that participated in the
nomination process."
About the VON Magazine Innovator Awards
Building on the legacy of the Pulver 100, the VON Innovator Awards have
evolved to recognize all companies -- from start-ups to those publicly
traded -- which represent the future of Internet Communications. Each
participating company completed a lengthy and comprehensive nomination
process, and the recipients have been selected from a committee made up of
VON Magazine editors, columnists, and contributors, as well as the leading
content producer for the VON.x conferences. For additional information,
please visit: http://www.vonmag.com/innovators/.
About the BroadWorks Platform
BroadSoft's IMS-compliant BroadWorks® platform provides a comprehensive
range of VoIP applications, including Hosted PBX/IP Centrex, Mobile PBX,
Business Trunking and residential broadband services fully integrated into
a single VoIP application platform. BroadWorks is capable of providing
these applications with the reliability, redundancy, scalability and
regulatory capabilities required to deliver carrier-class service.
About BroadSoft®
BroadSoft provides VoIP application software that enables the delivery of
hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its award-winning flagship
BroadWorks® technology empowers wireless, wireline and cable carriers to
deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced
features that enable them to increase revenue, enhance competitive
differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. BroadSoft's family of
carrier-class software products delivers the scale, open architecture and
reliability that the world's leading telecommunications companies demand to
serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers.
BroadSoft provides VoIP applications to seven of the top 10 and 13 of the
top 25 largest carriers worldwide, as measured by recent annual revenue,
including Korea Telecom, KPN, SingTel, Sprint, Telefonica de Espana,
Telstra, T-Systems, and Verizon. For additional information, go to www.BroadSoft.com.
BroadSoft® and BroadWorks® are registered trademarks and CommPilot is a
trademark of BroadSoft®, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their
respective companies.