Avaya web.alive 2.5 enhanced with new features and capabilities and now available for any size business through monthly or annual subscription

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Avaya Inc., a global leader in business collaboration systems, software and services, announced the launch of new cloud-based, on-demand purchasing options and features for Avaya web.alive, the company’s innovative, immersive web collaboration platform designed for businesses and organizations.

Avaya web.alive is a secure, immersive collaboration platform that uses personalized avatars and rich, spatial audio and visuals to expand on current modes of conferencing and collaboration. Using high-quality voice, visuals and content sharing capabilities, Avaya web.alive helps solve a number challenges to business collaboration with an easy and fun to use environment.

The new purchasing options make Avaya web.alive available as a service through a monthly subscription for individual hosts or via annual concurrent user based pricing. Customers can also opt to install and manage the software on their own servers. The flexibility of purchase options enables any size business or organization to use Avaya web.alive for meetings, training, or sales and service opportunities involving both internal and external participants.

In addition to the purchasing options, new features and capabilities in Avaya web.alive include:

* New 3D audio engine for dramatic spatial audio that helps participants better identify and understand who is speaking and their location within the environment
* Built-in collaboration tools including desktop sharing and cooperative web browsing
* Avaya Aura SIP interface for integration with existing communications infrastructure enabling participants to join a collaboration session via the telephone or inside of the web.alive environment
* New templates that make it easy to design environments that meet the needs of a company or host
* Downloadable SDK to enable customers or hosts to independently create and upload their own custom content
* Analytics that provide the data to enhance collaboration, selling or learning efforts. For example, insight can be gained into traffic and conversation patterns, sales and presentation effectiveness, travel savings, etc. The notification engine can email contact center agents when customers have entered an Avaya web.alive sales or service.

“Meetings, seminars, classes, and even hallway conversations over the web can now be more social and truly engaging with Avaya web.alive,” said Brett Shockley, vice president, Emerging Products and Technologies. “The cutting edge spatial audio and immersive collaboration technology allows our customers to achieve new levels effectiveness in remote collaboration. Avaya web.alive continues Avaya’s innovative ‘people-first’ approach to delivering business collaboration solutions.”

Avaya web.alive will be available from www.avayalive.com beginning March 1, 2011 in the U.S. via credit card purchase for $49/month for a single, named host that allows up to eight participants per session. MasterCard, Visa or American Express will be accepted online for monthly subscriptions. Annual concurrent user subscriptions are also available via purchase order.