Learn more about the new features in the upcoming release of InformaCast 7.1 from Singlewire Software.
Transcript
We are talking with Ken Bywaters Executive Vice President of Product Management with singlewire. I want to quickly ask about InformaCast 7.1 which has a release date coming up here in the next month or two we are looking at May-June timeline.
Yes
You want to talk about what’s going to be in that release?
Yes there’s going to be a handful of things. Predominantly, I think a lot of people will want to know is if it fully supports CallManager 8.0 as well a whole new suite of phones Cisco has developed. There’s some additions and some improvements in how we access a group as well as direct dial numbers including those in a group.
And also we are paving the way for similar products in this release that are going to be very very important. With 7.1 we are going to support dynamic audio. So, that means is you can hand audio from another source off to an InformaCast server and we will send it out for you. You no longer have to have a pre recorded message or a live message you can pull it in from somewhere else. That’s going to set the stage for product we are going to announce over the summer which will take advantage of this.
Is there another example that you can give now of how that would work as for as audio coming in and being played.
Yes, a good one would be probably an audio alert from the National Weather Service which is a common one in certain parts of the country. They will issue a tornado warning or something like that. We could take the audio from that warning and send it out automatically to whatever InformaCast group which you like.
And you mentioned got CallManager 8.0 thats been out now and is just coming out with now from Cisco
Yes we had actually had it in house for quite a while in testing against it. We’ve gone through rigorous testing cycle with Cisco that not only tests against 8.0 but does regression testing through previous versions. I should also mention that with that we are following Cisco’s sunset cycle and with InformaCast 7.1 we will no longer be supporting CallManager 4 in this release. So customers that have CallManager 4 should certainly be aware of that.
Ok giving this if you are current on maintenance that’s the best way.
That is the best way. And if you lapsed in maintenance that’s ok. we renew people as well
Very good. We can look to this arriving in the May-June timeline?
Yeah, May 2010
Ok very soon, right. Thank’s again
Thank you
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