telecom founded 1999 headquarters orlando fl key people ceo jonathan taylor cto rj auburn revenue unknown number of employees 150 slogan unlocked communications . customer obsession . communications passion . website www.voxeo.com voxeo corporation is a technology company that specializes in providing development platforms for unified customer experience self service and unified communications real time communications applications . voxeo s products are all available as saas platform as a service public cloud on premises software private cloud or hybrid clouds that combine the public cloud and on premises components . voxeo products include prophecy interactive voice response ivr platform voiceobjects multi channel ivr sms im web social service creation environment prism sip http xmpp java application server and media server previously sipmethod tropo multi lingual cloud based communications platform for voice sms im and twitter imified hosted instant messaging application development and deployment platform smsified hosted sms text messaging application development and deployment platform phono web based softphone and coloboration sdk customers have developed a wide range of applications on voxeo s platform ranging from traditional customer service ivr systems to conferencing systems to outbound notification systems . as of september 2011 the company reported that over 220 000 developers have joined voxeo s developer programs . 1 voxeo is headquartered in orlando florida with main offices in cologne germany ; beijing china ; london uk and san francisco us . in 2013 voxeo was acquired by aspect software . 2 contents 1 history 2 services 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit voxeo was founded by jonathan taylor and others in 1999 3 with the goal of making it easy for web developers to create telephony applications . in 2000 and 2001 the company received around 40 million in investments from crosspoint venture partners the mayfield fund and others . 4 in september 2004 an employee and management led buyout of the investment firms 5 moved the company into being an employee owned private company . as noted above voxeo was acquired in 2013 by aspect software . voxeo has grown its services through both internal development and acquisition . in october 2005 voxeo acquired the voicexml ivr platform and customers of vocomo . 6 in may 2006 voxeo launched a european subsidiary . 7 and followed that in july 2006 with the acquisition of voiceready which provided voxeo with their designer graphical tool . 8 in august 2008 voxeo acquired micromethod technologies of beijing china gaining a presence in asia and also sip servlet technology . 9 in december 2008 voxeo announced the acquisition of voiceobjects of cologne germany adding a rich application development tool to voxeo s portfolio . 10 those acquisitions were followed by hosted im application provider imiifed in may 2009 11 open source telephony framework adhearsion in july 2009 12 motorola s voicexml browser business in october 2009 13 and web collaboration platform clackpoint in january 2010 . 14 voxeo acquired cloud communications platform teleku in august 2010 15 and application provider webforphone in november 2010 . 16 over the years voxeo has received industry recognition recently including placement in gartner s magic quadrant for ivr in 2008 17 listing as one of only two shortlist vendors by analyst firm datamonitor in 2009 18 and receiving the highest rating of strong positive in gartner s 2011 marketscope for ivr systems and enterprise voice portals . 19 competitors include tellme networks west corporation genesys avaya and others . services edit voxeo provides the prophecy application platform for premises deployment or via its global hosted infrastructure . the company began initially providing hosted saas services in 2000 and then offered a premises platform in 2006 . in march 2009 voxeo launched the tropo.com 20 21 platform that allows developers to create voice telephony applications using the languages of ruby python php groovy and javascript or via a webapi that utilizes a request response model and talks to an application running on a web server using http and json . in may 2011 voxeo launched smsified a new service for developers wanting to build inbound and outbound sms text messaging applications . 22 the voxeo platform is based on open standards like voicexml ccxml and sip and the company puts a strong emphasis on standards . voxeo employee dan burnett chairs the w3c voice browser working group and is co editor in chief of voicexml 3 . cto rj auburn chairs the w3c ccxml working group . 23 see also edit list of speech recognition software speech recognition ivr telemarketing voice saas telephone services references edit voxeo blog what types of applications do people create with voxeo platform december 29 2008 aspect software announces completion of acquisition of voxeo july 26 2013 jonathan taylor on the origins and near future of voxeo ecomm february 20 2009 voxeo tries to untangle net phone mess forbes january 23 2001november 12 2001 voxeo news release january 25 2005 voxeo acquires vocomo customer base and voicexml ivr platform technology speech tech magazine october 1 2005 voxeo launches european subsidiary hosting center and sales office speech tech magazine may 16 2006 voxeo acquires voiceready tmc ip communications community july 20 2006 voxeo acquires san jose based micromethod technologies silicon valley wire august 20 2008 voxeo acquires voiceobjects information week december 9 2008 voxeo acquires imified to add im agents to voice services gigaom may 27 2009 adhearsion voxeo voxeo labs plus a free trip down memory lane voip insider july 22 2009 voxeo acquires motorola s voicexml browser technology techcrunch october 5 2009 orlando based voxeo buys web meeting site orlando sentinel january 20 2010 voxeo gobbles up teleku gigaom august 11 2010 webforphone joins expanding voxeo family insidecti november 18 2010 microsoft and nuance get muted by gartner magic quadrant for ivr speech technology magazine april 4 2008 voxeo makes datamonitor shortlist of ivr vendors tmc ivr community may 12 2009 voxeo news release september 7 2011 voxeo launches tropo.com opus research march 3 2009 voxeo puts api in the clouds speech technology magazine march 6 2009 voxeo to launch smsified will charge 1 cent per text venturebeat may 10 2011 ccxml becomes a proposed recommendation prweb july 2011 external links edit voxeo website voxeo blogs site voxeo developer portal voiceobjects website micromethod website tropo website smsified website imified website phono website contact center solutions retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title voxeo & oldid 741404392 categories telecommunications companies of the united statescompanies established in 1999companies based in orlando floridacloud communication platformshidden categories use mdy dates from june 2014 navigation menu personal 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