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Come join us at the BroadSoft Connections Executive Users Conference 2008:
Xtend - Focuses on Extending Your Network of Opportunities, October 5 - 8 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Response Point General Manager Xuedong Huang presents "The Magic of Software and Business Communications" at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO West 2008 in Los Angeles.
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Watch Bill Gates greet attendees at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston as he celebrates the availability of SP1.
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Aastra debuts its Response Point system with cordless phone option; Junction Networks is newest VoIP provider for Response Point SP1.
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Response Point small-business phone system from hardware manufacturer Quanta Computer is now available for purchase directly from Costco.com.
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Cbeyond and New Global Telecom will offer leading digital voice service for Response Point SP1.
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U.S. small businesses can soon take advantage of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phone service on Microsoft Response Point phone systems to improve their business communications.
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Aastralink RP Debut Coincides with Microsoft Response Point SP1 release
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Product review: Microsoft Response Point 1.0
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Response Point: VoIP For SMBs
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What You Need to Know About ... : Microsoft Response Point
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Smart, Simple VoIP from Syspine (and Friends)
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Microsoft Pumps Up Small Business VoIP
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"[Response Point] certainly is a phone system that has some features that used to be found in medium and enterprise level VoIP environments," says Trevor Dierdorff, president of AMNet, a Colorado Springs, CO-based solution provider.
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"The fact that it works with VoIP and non-VoIP lines is a plus for smaller customers who may want to try out VoIP...This product lets customers try VoIP and add it as they want," says Jason Harrison, president of Harrison Technology Consulting, a Nashville, NC-based small business specialist.
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"By allowing customers to use VoIP, Response Point with SP1 can save customers that have between 10 to 19 employees an average of $8,000 in their first year after installing VoIP...Businesses with between 25 to 49 employees will save on average about $25,000 in the first year," says Sanjeev Aggarwal, vice president of Infrastructure Solutions at AMI Partners, in New York.
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Response Point SP1 will enable small business to supplement its traditional phone service with VoIP services, Microsoft said as it noted that the VoIP flexibility of SP1 will allow small businesses to scale quickly and cost-effectively compared with the effort they would have to expend to carry out similar operations using public switched telephone network (PSTN) lines.
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"Excuse the ebullient praise here, but Response Point is awesome," raves news editor Paul Thurrot. "My wife and I both work at home in separate offices, and with Response Point we can appear to be running a huge and successful business."
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"Simply head on over to Best Buy or Circuit City, pick up a copy of Microsoft's Halo 3, and while you're at it buy your corporation a new fandangled phone system that you can install in minutes. [Response Point] has 99.9% of the everyday features you need, makes them easier to use, and it does so at a reasonable price."
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"The speech engine is the really impressive part of this phone system. Microsoft's Response Point team borrowed this speech technology from its Speech Server developers — and it shows. This is good stuff and way beyond the hit-or-miss, need-to-be-voice-trained solutions we've seen before."
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"Microsoft has hit the sweet spot for small businesses with Response Point. It has the right mix of features and price to let small businesses implement a professional IP phone system, without the overhead of managing and maintaining something designed for far larger enterprises."
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"Traditionally [VARS and channel partners] face a challenge to branch out into telephony. Telephony has a [reputation] for being very hard to learn. It takes a long time to be certified because it's complex and requires specialized expertise. Response Point is going to change that," said Xuedong Huang, General Manager, Response Point."
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"It may sound a little kooky, but the biggest thing is that [Response Point] lends us some credibility because it gives people the impression we're a big company with resources. We look like a company that's going to be around tomorrow. When you call most of our competitors, you get someone's cell phone," says Mark McCracken, president of Comenity, a Seattle-area custom audio-video installer.
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"[Response Point is] impressively easy to set up and, depending on the company providing the hardware, either is wireless or uses the existing Ethernet that is likely already running to the desks.... This, along with the new Zune and the Microsoft Home Server, are demonstrating a capability in Microsoft—simple, easy-to-use products."
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"Microsoft addresses [small business] needs with its Response Point solution that gives small businesses a whole slew of "big business" phone features at an affordable price"
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"Mike Gotta, Industry Analyst with Burton Group, gets some answers from Xuedong Huang, General Manager, Response Point."
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Hear Mark McCracken, CEO of Comenity, tell Bill Gates how Response Point has helped his company.
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