Each month, system integrator NACR takes to the mic to host a complimentary, hour-long webinar on a topic pertinent to business communications industry and this month is no exception.

Next week, on Nov. 17, NACR’s Mark Whitacre, national director of UC will take part in a webinar titled, “Have You Been Notified? Learn the Value of Avaya (News - Alert) Aura Messaging.” The webinar, taking place at 2 p.m. EST, will shed light on how the Avaya Aura Messaging, including Voice Recognition, Reach Me, and Notify Me features, increase collaboration and streamline communications.

“Like most communication technologies, messaging systems are evolving from proprietary, isolated systems to more open, efficient and intelligent IP Based communications solution,” NACR officials wrote on their site about the webinar. “Avaya Aura Messaging is Avaya's next generation solution and existing technology and expertise within the Avaya Aura architecture in Linux based server environment.”

Companies are encouraged to attend the webinar to learn about how new features like Voice Recognition, Reach Me, Notify Me, Speech to Text and Unified Messaging are helping businesses streamline communications processes. And in so doing, companies are enjoying enhanced staff productivity and improved customer response, according to the system integrator.

The webinar will help participants: discover how to save time by ensuring that important calls get to the right person, at the right time; learn how to alert employees to critical, new messages; improve customer service with tools that enable better and faster decision making; reduce costs by maintaining existing dialing plans through consolidation of multiple systems; understand the best migration path for legacy messaging to Avaya Aura platform; and figure out the best deployment options for your solution.

Whitacre has 20 plus years in the communications industry and expertise with messaging solutions including Avaya, Octel, Nortel, Siemens (News - Alert), AVST and Active Voice with advanced applications.

To register for the webinar, click here.

NACR, an independent system integrator of best-in-class communications, collaboration and customer interaction solutions for businesses, is one of Avaya’s largest Channel Partners worldwide.

In other company news, customers wanting to learn more about notification solutions for higher education and other industries can now register to win a private technology briefing and tickets to an NCAA basketball game, offered by system integrator NACR and its application partner Mutare Software.

Targeted at mostly colleges and universities, the briefing can provide institutions with information about the industry-leading Enterprise Notification System (ENS), a powerful yet affordable solution for broadcasting important messages and alerts to targeted groups or specific locations, according to NACR officials.