Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with Sundeep Gupta, Director of Product Management and Marketing at Orative Corporation about an intriguing approach to solving some of the real-time communications problems many of us face every single day.

Orative develops mobile software solutions that improve the efficiency of voice communications for business mobile phone users. With Orative Enterprise Software, mobile phone users can quickly reach the Right Resource, Right Now! Users can coordinate conversations, collaborate with colleagues, screen unwanted calls and interruptions, and securely access personal and corporate phone books. Orative transforms the mobile phone into a true business phone.

Background Information about Orative Corporation
Orative has developed an exciting new way to use mobile phones for business. By layering intelligent software on top of existing mobile phone technology, Orative offers businesses the opportunity to combine the freedom and flexibility of mobile phones with the rich functionality and control typical of other enterprise communications systems.

Orative Enterprise Software is a robust solution suite that lets mobile phone users quickly reach the Right Resource, Right Now! Orative software enables users to coordinate conversations, collaborate with colleagues, screen unwanted calls and interruptions, and access personal and corporate phone books. Orative transforms the mobile phone into a true business phone.

Network Diagram

Orative Enterprise Software brings freedom and time-saving efficiency to mainstream employees in sales, service, operations and management who depend on mobile phones to communicate with their teams, customers, and suppliers. Better communications easily translates into better results - saving both you and your organization time and money.

Orative Enterprise Software relies upon Orative Enterprise Server and Orative Client Software to deliver an end-to-end solution. Orative Enterprise Server runs on a standards-based, Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform that operates securely behind the enterprise firewall. Orative Client Software runs on a variety of popular mobile handsets, and leverages the latest application development environments including Symbian OS, Java and BREW.

Client Screens

Background Information about Sundeep


Sundeep Gupta is Director of Product Management & Marketing at Orative Corporation responsible for the management and marketing activities including product requirements for existing and new products, market entry strategy, positioning, sales and partner training. He bring over 14 years of experience in building market leading high-technology products with specialization in new products and market development. Prior to Orative, Sundeep spent seven years at Nuance communications, a leading provider of speech self-service platforms, where he contributed to the growth of the company from a pre-IPO startup to a successful publicly traded company. Most recently at Nuance he managed the roll out of the top ranked Nuance Voice Platform to Fortune 500 enterprises and carriers and was instrumental in successful early adoption by customers and partners. During his tenure at Nuance, he also managed International products covering over 35 countries, Nuance's developer platform and launched the company's first developer program. Prior to Nuance, Sundeep was at the IBM Santa Teresa Labs. He led the effort to deliver multi-media solutions based on the IBM Digital Library. In this capacity he worked with the worlds leading museums and libraries to create digital archives of their collections and make then accessible on the Web. Sundeep began his career at Caere Corporation, developing neural network algorithms for optical character recognition. He has been awarded two patents. Sundeep holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani in India and a Master's degree in Engineering Management from Stanford University.

First I'd like to thank Sundeep for taking the time to chat with me and share Orative's vision of the market and how to solve many of today's communications problems using a real-time approach to facilitating conversation.. also want to thank Rick Loughery with Three-Forty Communications for helping put this together.

I have to say, I was very impressed with what Orative's solutions can bring to business to help manage presence and imrpove real-time communications. I encourage you to visit their web site and watch the demo online.

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