AITP Southwest Florida Chapter Meeting
Minutes

February 9, 1998 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
SpectraFax Corp. 3050 N. Horseshoe Dr., Suite 100 Naples, Florida


Members Present
Linda Busby
Artoto Brignoni Jr.
Orv Curry
Robert Franz
Suzanne Johns
David Johnson
Mike Keller
Matthew LeLievre
Tim Lynch
Tammy McElroy
Kazuo Nakatani
Ken Reber
Paul Sikkenga
Tony Simms
Vicki Simms
Brian Stewart

Guest Speaker
Kaush Chokshi, the VP of Operations at SpectraFax Corp.
Marc Michels, Regional Sales Manager

Topics Discussed
1. Welcome and Introductions by Paul Sikkenga. 

2. Paul Sikkenga talked about the next meeting (Sony Help Desk)

3. Attendees introduced themselves.

Presentation
Marc Michels, Regional Sales Manager and Kaush Chokshi, the VP of Operations at SpectraFax Corp.

Background and History of SpectraFax Corp.

  • SpectraFax Corp. provides high performance, turnkey hard/soft fax server solutions.
  • Design and install voice/fax systems since 1984.
  • Invented a fax board and sold the license to Intel.
  • Helped IBM, HP, etc. streamline flow of enterprise information.
Fax Liaison Products 
  • Fax Liaison is a fax server that integrates seamlessly with many email systems and provides high volume fax broadcast and fax-on-demand functions. 
  • Fax server + NT4.0 + voice- and e-mails.
  • How well does your company manage fax is critical:
15% of secretarial time is used for faxing.
40% of telecommunication cost at Fortune 2000 is fax.
80% of faxed documentation is originated on computers.
1/3 of US business calls is fax.
Less than 25% if US population has access to Internet.
85% has access to fax.
  • SpectraFax Corp.'s customers saved 30-40% of long distance charge.
  • Security and confidentiality is guaranteed.
Functionality of Fax Liaison Products 
  • Network faxing/e-mail integration using MS Exchange or Lotus Notes.
  • Fax on demand.  Document retrieval through Interactive Voice Response with one-call or two-call retrieval.
  • Fax Broadcast: same documentation to multiple destinations.
  • Full fax feature without individual modems, fax boards, and phone lines.
  • Can send attachment.
  • Retrieve fax in "in-box" of MS Exchange or Lotus Notes as a TIF file.
  • Maintain confidentiality using individual fax numbers.
  • Voice mail notification: when a fax is received, a notice will be automatically sent to voice message machine.
  • Remote retrieval using a fax.
  • Maintain detailed log.
Example: HP saved $2000 per month.

Future: Integrated messaging: SpectraFax Corp. tries to provide a system that integrates the traditionally networked computers and PBX, fax server, voice mail server, e-mail server, video server, OCR, Voice recognition, Internet/Intranet, etc. 

For more information about SpectraFax Corp., http://www.spectrafax.com.