Merit Systems announces GIFTefax

BANGALORE: Merit Systems, a software development company, has launched its

latest email to fax gateway product, GIFTefax. It integrates the email network

to the fax system and claims to provide an economic and convenient solution for

an enterprise communication requirement.

"Despite the proliferation of the Internet, people rely on fax as an

integral part of office communication. Hence, we took up the challenge of

extending the convenience and cost effectiveness of email network to fax

communications," said B S Gopal Rao, managing director, Merit Systems.

"Using this product would mean receiving all your communication, be it an

email or a fax, at your desktop. Furthermore, since the process is totally

automated, it eliminates the need for printing and manually faxing. This would

lead to significant cost savings in the long run."

Functionally, GIFTefax uses email backbone for fax communications. A fax

message would originate as an email from the GIFTefax subscriber’s system and

would travel via the Internet and arrive as a fax at the destination system or

the fax machine. Should a company executive be travelling, he could save on the

cost of sending overseas faxes by routing the message through his local GIFTefax

server to the recipient fax machine, thus incurring only the cost of a local

call.

Gopal said, "A recent survey showed that 50 per cent of an executive’s

time is spent searching for prior communications and messages. There is also the

frustration of not being able to locate that crucial piece of information due to

distributed means of receiving and sending communications. GIFTefax will change

this so that a company can save time and resources."

With GIFTefax incoming fax can be received as an email into one or more

mailboxes. An incoming fax message can also be automatically copied to a mailbox

for archiving purposes, if required.

Established in 1995, Bangalore-based Merit Systems has engineered a series of products, namely GIFTefax, GIFTultemail, httpGIFT, ftpGIFT and pop@GIFT, primarily in the communications segment.