"LegionONE and RedOxygen team up to offer effective and affordable SMS capability to Australian business." RedOxygen, an Australian software development company, announced today that their desktop-to-SMS services are now being offered to Australian businesses by LegionONE, a leading provider of corporate messaging services. LegionONE, the business division of Australia's leading interactive communications company, Legion Interactive, is now offering a customised version of RedOxygen's desktop-to-SMS service on their website (www.legionone.com/outlooksms). These solutions allow users of the popular email applications Microsoft Outlook (97, 98, 2000 & XP), Outlook Express and Lotus Notes to send and receive SMS messages and calendar reminders from their desktops, all as easily as sending an email. With RedOxygen's solutions, LegionONE customers can now effectively deploy SMS communications without the need for any additional applications or hardware. LegionONE's General Manager, Products and Services, Andrew Grill, believes that SMS technology is now becoming a must for competitive businesses. "With mobiles now an increasingly important part of how business is done, the costs associated with mobile communications have become a significant expense for many businesses", says Mr. Grill. "A recent report from the Australian Telecommunications Users Group suggested that a third of the phone costs incurred by big business were from fixed-to-mobile calls. With RedOxygen's email-to-SMS products, we are now offering our customers a practical, effective means to substantially reduce that expenditure." "SMS is fast becoming an integral part of business as it allows information to be sent instantaneously", comments Grill. "The beauty of OutlookSMS and NotesSMS services is that they combine established communication channels into an even more effective tool - both in terms of time, and ultimately, cost." RedOxygen CEO, Tom Sheahan, notes that reduced costs are only one component of the value of SMS communications. "SMS messaging is growing up", said Mr. Sheahan. "People used to think that SMS was only for kids, but we believe that SMS is extremely important to the future of business communications". "There is currently a significant, unfulfilled demand for SMS solutions in the business market", continues Sheahan. "Many leading analysts have reported that SMS will become as mission critical to business as email, but until now companies have not had access to the kinds of tools needed to integrate SMS into their businesses. RedOxygen has made SMS simple to use, secure to operate, cost effective to utilise and easy to integrate with existing technology. Through our partnership with LegionONE, Australian businesses of all sizes can now make SMS a key part of their business communications environment".
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