Avotus Meets Avaya's DeveloperConnection Program Requirements For Interoperability

    OAKVILLE, Ontario--July 9, 2003--Avotus Corporation announced today that it has completed interoperability testing and has certified its flagship products for Avaya's DeveloperConnection (DevConnect) Program. As a premier partner in the Avaya DevConnect Partner program, the Avotus Professional and Avotus Enterprise application suites provide Avaya customers with management applications and services to boost productivity and reduce the cost of communications.
    Avotus has a successful ten-year relationship with Avaya. Through Avaya's DevConnect Program, Avotus is continually enhancing its applications to ensure compatibility with Avaya's traditional and newest generation IP telephony systems. DevConnect also allows Avotus to promote its solutions through Avaya's extensive direct sales and distribution network.
    Avotus Professional is a fully integrated voice and data network management solution that helps businesses monitor their voice and data communications assets. Avotus Enterprise is a comprehensive suite of fully integrated communications management applications. It scales to support large multi-site organizations using voice and data equipment from multiple vendors. The solution provides valuable information on long distance costs, mobile (cell) phone and calling card bills, trunk traffic through a web browser user interface.
    Avotus and Avaya support open, standards-based architectures and share a commitment to interoperable solutions. With Avaya DevConnect Program offerings from Avotus, customers can deploy a broad range of management solutions that foster innovation and drive rapid adoption of business-critical technologies.
    The Avaya DevConnect Program sets criteria for interoperability testing and is a co-marketing program enabling leading product and services firms to deploy innovative business communications solutions. The program provides enterprise customers with information regarding Avaya DevConnect products and services that are certified to interoperate with Avaya networking technology.

    About Avotus Corporation

    Avotus is the leader in Intelligent Communications Management solutions that monitor, analyze and control communications information traveling over voice and data networks. These solutions help enterprises reduce costs, provide better service to their customers and enhance employee productivity. The company has a premier client base that includes 42% of the Fortune 100 and 28% of the Global Fortune 500 companies. Avotus is a public company trading on the Canadian Venture Exchange. For more information, please visit www.avotus.com.

    About Avaya

    Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than 1 million businesses worldwide, including 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500(R). Focused on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader in secure and reliable Internet Protocol (IP) telephony systems and communications software applications and services.
    Driving the convergence of voice and data communications with business applications - and distinguished by comprehensive worldwide services -Avaya helps customers leverage existing and new networks to achieve superior business results. For more information visit the Avaya website: http://www.avaya.com

    About DevConnect

    The DeveloperConnection Program (DevConnect) is a comprehensive set of innovative sales, support, marketing and services programs through which Avaya works with members to develop, promote and sell their products and solutions that interoperate with Avaya solutions. For more information, visit DevConnect at http://www.devconnectprogram.com
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