News, 1999

January 18, 1999

The biggest cellular carrier in Ukraine "Ukrainian Mobile Communications" purchased Artix BroadsWord notifer to inform its customers about their debts.

January 20, 1999

Voice messaging system Artix BroadsWord was rebuilt in Delphi 4.0 programming environment.

January 27, 1999

Task monitoring and control were greatly optimized in the mass notification system. This affects the system performance for calling several tens thousand of recipients.

February 9, 1999

The first commercial release of a new universal integrated voice and fax processing platform Artix Calliseum 1.0. This platform supports both analog and digital telephone interfaces and allows to run multiple call-processing units or so-called "voice prompts". Each voice prompt realized as a separate DLL, which can handle one or more telephone lines. Default voice prompt is the corporate Voice & Fax Mail.

March 18, 1999

It was optimized forward of incoming messages and notification by email for a large number of subscribers in a specific forward-list.

April 5, 1999

Hot swapping of configuration settings in Artix Calliseum 1.0 has been developed.

April 7, 1999

Artix Calliseum 1.0 is localized in English language.

April 12, 1999

A new voice prompt added to Artix Calliseum voice & fax processing platform. It is the Banking, which can be useful for small banks to offer new telephone services to their clients.

April 16, 1999

Now information on the system users and new users can be imported from external databases and text files into Artix Calliseum.

May 15, 1999

The new features of hot swapping of voice prompts and the ability to set the schedule of voice prompts will help an administrator to configure time schedule easily.

June 24, 1999

One more voice prompt on the base of Artix Calliseum platform is appeared. This is the Televoting prompt with a new utility, which allows operators to run mass calling events such as voting and research questionnaires. Callers or recipients can show the results of votings through the Internet.

June 26, 1999

Artix Line started to develop the Voice Message Delivery through Internet on the base of Artix BroadsWord and existing email server. The system will receive the customers orders to deliver a voice message through Internet at any point round the world and to send it by phone to the message recipient.

July 9, 1999

Release of a new Calliseum utility that allows to import data automatically. Now the system administrator can once select the data source and the system will automatically import data in specified time periods.

July 16, 1999

The company started working under the contract with Murmansk Mobile Net on integration of the Artix Calliseum 1.0 corporate platform with local Billing system.

August 6, 1999

The first release of a new Artix Calliseum add-on: Interactive Televoting that supports the viewing results on the Internet by any Web browser that can run ActiveX controls.

August 10, 1999

Artix Line signed a contract with Azerbaijan Ministry of Communications on shipping Artix BroadsWord mass notification system.

August 16, 1999

Artix InterCall beta version is released. Artix InterCall is a new hi-tech tool based on the Artix Calliseum platform, which is to provide audio conferencing for up to 1024 conferees depending on the hardware installed on PC.

August 23, 1999

A new useful feature was added to Voice&Fax Mail: notification by phone. Now the system can make outbound calls to the users on a new message arrival.

September 3, 1999

The new prompt ScratchCard for cellular companies was added into the telephony platform Calliseum. This prompt with an additional utility allows customers of the cellular company to make payments through telephony cards by phone.

September 19, 1999

Artix Line started adaptation of its products for ISDN BRI protocol.

October 15, 1999

Artix Line signed a contract for delivery of fax server ISDN PRI. This is the first delivery of the digital fax board (for Siemens).

November 29, 1999

The adaptation for ISDN BRI of the telephony systems is finished. Now all products support the whole line of Dialogic boards (both loop start and digital).

December 1, 1999

Artix Line took part in the conference devoted to the problems of computer telephony in Russia.

December 15, 1999

Artix Line added new capabilities into the audio conferencing InterCall. Now the participants of the audio conference can vote by the phones during the conference.

December 21, 1999

Company won a tender for installation of the telephony banking system for Absolute bank.