Telephony2  is an interesting company that I'm seeing more and more of. I had a great chat with Jim Heising, there's CEO at the recent O'Reilly ETel conference, and i'm looking forward to finding time to get up and visit their office. Today they released the German-language version of CallButler, an Internet-based telephony system that provides the power of a PBX system at a fraction of the price for the small office/home office and small businesses.

TELEPHONY2 INTRODUCES GERMAN-LANGUAGE VERSION OF CALLBUTLER™
Strong Demand Seen for Internet Telephony System in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

REDMOND, Wash. – March 27, 2007 – Telephony2 Corporation today announced availability of a German-language version of its CallButler™ Internet telephony system ( http://callbutler.com ). CallButler gives small office/home office (SOHO) and small businesses (SMB) powerful office communication capabilities to quickly and easily project a professional image to callers, communicate more effectively, and grow their businesses while saving time and money.

“We are very excited about this release,” said Telephony2 CEO Jim Heising. “Early on, we designed CallButler to be a global solution. The reality is that small businesses around the world face similar challenges – trying to deliver outstanding customer service, trying to grow their businesses, making every sale count, and all this on a limited budget. Historically, small businesses have paid too much and received too little from traditional telephone services. We aim to change that.”

Heising added that the company is also evaluating options for developing versions of CallButler in other languages, such as French, Spanish and Chinese.

Telephony2 teamed with its German partner SIP-Telefon.de to develop the German-language version of CallButler. “There are more than 2.5 million small businesses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland that need a solution like CallButler,” said SIP-Telefon.de CEO Bernd Heppner. “What makes CallButler so attractive is the combination of powerful features, ease-of-use and affordability. Small businesses traditionally paid thousands for a telephone/PBX system – now they can implement a comprehensive telephone system themselves in just a few minutes and at a fraction of the cost.”

“Our agency uses CallButler as an alternative to complicated and inflexible PBX systems,” said M. Ruerup, CEO at IntelliAd Media GmbH, an Internet-services firm in Hünfelden, Germany. “CallButler allows us to be more responsive to our customers and build sophisticated office-telecommunications scenarios including advanced call routing and database inquiries. CallButler gives our employees great flexibility. We strongly recommend CallButler.” IntelliAd Media provides solutions to centrally integrate, analyze and optimize search-engine marketing campaigns across different marketers like Google AdWords and Microsoft AdCenter.

CallButler’s hallmark feature is its ease of use. Through a well-conceived interface and visual call-flow designer, CallButler enables small businesses to set-up a telephone system in minutes with powerful features like auto-attendant, multi-lingual prompts, advance call personalization and routing, call screening, dial-by-name directory, music on hold, extensions, voicemail, and integration with Microsoft Outlook.

CallButler is priced to be affordable for even the smallest companies. Unlike many other small business telephone systems, CallButler charges a low, one-time license fee rather than recurring monthly payments. Unlike hosted or hardware-based solutions, CallButler enables small businesses to easily customize their system and integrate with databases and other applications to create innovative voice applications.

Customers can download a free trial version of CallButler in German from http://callbutler.com/download or http://callbutler.de .

About Telephony2
Telephony2 ( http://www.telephony2.com ) is a leading provider of Internet-based telephony solutions to the small business market. Telephony2’s vision is to redefine small business communications by delivering powerful software solutions that are affordable, easy to install/easy to use, intuitive and deliver dramatically more functionality at a fraction of the cost of traditional offerings. Designed specifically for small businesses, Telephony2 products help “level the playing field” for the little guy.

Founded in 2005 and based in Redmond, Wash., Telephony2 is successfully bringing Internet-based technologies within reach of the average business with voiceware that combines the telephone, the human voice and artificial intelligence to take complex processes and information and turn them into something that can be easily comprehended, retained and used.

About SIP-Telefon.de
SIP-Telefon.de http://www.sip-telefon.de is a leader in bringing complete VoIP business solutions to market with VoIP software, phones/softphones, adaptors and support in German and English. The German-version of CallButler is developed and supported through a joint effort between SIP-Telefon.de and Telephony2.