This is a marketing brochure for a collaborative communications platform developed over a decade ago that has features and functionality just reaching the market in 2011 in competing products.

1. US E D T O B E
C O M M U N I C AT I O N
T H I S S I MP L E

2. T H I S P E R S O N A L
T H I S D I R E C T
THIS I M M E D I AT E

3. Communication is the engine that
drives your business.
You need to talk. Debate. Ask. Answer. Learn.
Make decisions. And you need to do it all faster
than ever before.
Ironically, many of the new networks, systems,
and devices designed to streamline communication
have actually made it even more complicated. That’s
because so many of them can’t seem to communicate
with one another.
D É J À V U Yes, they can.
Ossia™ is a revolutionary new enterprise
software-based solution from Axiom8 that makes
person-to-person communication simpler, faster,
and more immediate than ever before. It harnesses
the speed, intelligence, and ubiquity of managed
networks, enabling people to communicate in
precisely the ways that work for them.
With Ossia, finding and communicating with
people — one or a dozen, wherever they are, and
wherever you are — is as easy as clicking a mouse or
speaking a simple voice command over a telephone.
You are immediately brought together. And
your business will never be the same again.

4. A revolutionary new concept in business
communication.
Using an intuitive PC interface or simple voice
commands from any telephone, you can locate, contact,
➤➤ Contact
and communicate with others virtually instantaneously. Find the people you need. Even if you don’t
Actually communicating. Ossia allows you to choose the format—voice-only, know who or where they are.
voice and video, or instant text messaging—that will
No one knows how many hours are lost each make your communication most effective and efficient. Ossia uses your company’s existing directory
day as people literally chase one another with voice information to create a searchable registry of users and
mail messages, pages, and e-mails — all in a futile effort Yo u ’ v e n e v e r c o m m u n i c a t e d their contact information—where they can be reached,
to simply share information, make decisions and plans, like this before. and how. And, Ossia lets you build a personal contact
and move their business forward. list of the people you most often need to reach, including
Ossia will forever change the way you interact important contacts outside of your company, such as
That’s not communication. with colleagues, clients, customers and suppliers, customers, vendors, consultants, and the like.
whether they’re just down the hall or on the other side
True communication is direct. Person-to-person. Each user provides Ossia with a “routing profile”
of the globe:
Immediate. Productive. And easy. indicating where best to reach him or her at given
Contact people with greater ease and speed times. It’s a one-time task that takes just a few minutes.
Communication is Ossia. than ever before.
Ossia’s intelligence does the rest, managing all
Ossia is the first true Dynamic Collaborative Communicate spontaneously, in real time, with communications routing based on user routing profiles.
Communications Environment for enterprises large and as many people as necessary, via phone, PC, or both. When you wish to contact one or more people, Ossia
small. It was developed to satisfy your urgent need determines where to find them, and immediately begins
to reach a live person, right now, and to get work done. Choose the communication mode that serves the contact process.
your needs best…audio, audio/video, text messaging;
An innovative software-based solution that single- or multi-party; spontaneous or scheduled. Multi-criteria search. Ossia’s powerful multi-
bridges telephone (PSTN) and Internet (IP) networks, criteria search engine enables you to find someone
Ossia enables you to spontaneously communicate Control your inbound communications: when, based on occupation, skills, department, geographical
PC-to-PC, PC-to-phone, and phone-to-phone, in either where, how, and by whom you can be contacted. location, or other criteria entered in the database. So,
one-to-one or multi-party conferencing mode. you can tell Ossia to find you a “copyright attorney
In short, Ossia is an entirely new kind of enterprise in our Seattle office who speaks fluent Japanese,” and
communication solution: a powerful, flexible, easy-to-use the next thing you know, you’ll be talking to her.
system that can help you manage all your communication
activity— every day, everywhere.

5. ➤➤ Communicate ➤➤ Choose ➤➤Control
Make an immediate connection. With one Communicate the way you need to. You are your own communications gatekeeper.
person...or as many people as you need.
Now or later. From your PC, you can If faster, easier outbound communications can
From your PC. Using Ossia’s simple, intuitive immediately exchange instant text messages with any make you more productive, imagine what taking control
graphical interface, simply click on a contact name — user who’s available via PC. Initiating a spontaneous of your inbound communications can do.
or several— and choose the communication format voice conference with any Ossia user is equally easy.
you prefer: text instant messaging, audio, or video. Or, using Ossia’s integrated Meeting List, you can Ossia lets you control how, where, when, and
Ossia immediately and transparently does all the work schedule a conference, send invitations, and determine by whom you can be contacted. You create a personal
of finding them and contacting them, based on their whether invitees have accepted or declined the invitation. routing profile that Ossia uses to locate you when
routing profiles. The interface even gives you real-time others need to get in touch. You decide, for example,
information about your contacts’ current availability, Multi-party, multi-format. Ossia lets you add whether Ossia should look for you at your office PC,
which makes it easier for you to decide whom to participants and change formats “on the fly” to make office phone, laptop, home office PC, mobile phone,
contact, and when. your conferences as productive as possible. Jump from and so on, and in what order. If you don’t want to
simple text messaging to full audio-video conferencing be contacted on your mobile phone, you can specify
From any telephone. Ossia lets you use simple instantaneously, or vice versa, and immediately contact that— and you can also change your preferences at
voice commands to initiate its search-and-contact and add new participants as you need them. any time.
features. Dial in from any phone, authenticate your
user identity with a personal PIN code, and simply Most important, Ossia doesn’t force you to
tell Ossia, for example, to “find Bill, Larry, Jill, and choose between communication formats, devices, or
Louise.” Ossia will locate your contacts and conference networks — or times, places, and people. If it works
you with them in a matter of seconds. for you, it works for Ossia.
Persistent Contact Search. Ossia does what no
other “reach” technology can: it ignores answering
machines, busy signals, and “ring-no-answers,” and
keeps searching until it finds the actual, live person
who is able to begin a conversation... now.

6. ONE-TO-ONE CONFERENCING
Glenda needs to have an immediate conversation with
her colleague, Bob. She doesn’t know where Bob is, but
she doesn’t need to — she has Ossia.
Using Ossia’s simple graphical interface on her PC,
Glenda selects Bob’s name from her customized list
of frequent contacts. With one click, she tells Ossia
to find Bob and make contact with him.
Alternatively, if Glenda only had access to a telephone —
any telephone, anywhere — she would simply tell Ossia
to “find Bob,” and Ossia would get to work.
WHERE’S
BOB?
➤ ➤ OFFICE PC
TRY BOB’S ➤ ➤ TRY BOB’S
OFFICE
➤ ➤ TRY BOB’S
MOBILE
➤ ➤ TRY BOB’S
HOME OFFICE
PHONE PHONE? PHONE
Ossia accesses Bob’s Bob’s office PC is the Ossia tries Bob’s NO! CONNECTED!
routing profile, and first location in his second routing
“Find begins to search for routing profile, but location and reaches
According to his
routing profile, Bob
Ossia reaches Bob
on his home office “Hi, this
Bob” Bob. he’s not logged on. his voice mail, so it
keeps searching.
prefers not to take
calls on his mobile
phone. Bob identifies
himself to Ossia
is Bob”
phone during business using his PIN code,
hours, so Ossia does and is immediately
not attempt to reach connected with
him there, but tries Glenda to answer
the last location in her questions.
09:30:00am Bob’s routing profile.
09:31:00am
While Ossia silently locates and contacts Bob, Glenda
finishes an e-mail, prints a document, and gathers the
files she needs to discuss with Bob.

7. MULTI-PARTY CONFERENCING WHERE IS MARK? ➤ ➤ TRY MARK’S OFFICE PC
INBOUND: PRIVACY AND CONTROL WORK HOME OTHER
Glenda is at the airport, and needs to conduct an urgent conference
with her colleagues Mark, Casey, and Bob. Ossia’s routing features not OSSIA ACCESSES THE ROUTING PROFILE CONNECTED!
only make locating and contacting Glenda’s colleagues virtually effortless CURRENTLY SPECIFIED BY MARK: Mark’s at his office PC. He accepts Glenda’s invitation and
on her part, but give Mark, Casey, and Bob complete control over where, 1. Office PC joins the conference.
when, and how Glenda can contact them. 2. Office phone
3. Satellite office phone
Each has taken a few minutes to create a personal Ossia routing
profile. When Ossia attempts to locate and contact them, it uses their
routing profiles to determine which locations to try, and in what sequence.
If they prefer not to be contacted at a particular location (a home phone,
for example), they can specify that. And, they can easily change
their preferences at any time. WHERE IS CASEY? ➤ ➤ TRY CASEY’S HOME
OFFICE PHONE
➤ ➤ TRY CASEY’S HOME
OFFICE PC
WORK HOME OTHER
OSSIA ACCESSES THE ROUTING PROFILE Voice mail. Not logged on.
“Find Mark,
09:30:00am
CURRENTLY SPECIFIED BY CASEY: Ossia continues search. Ossia continues search.
Casey, & Bob!” 1. Home office phone
2. Home office PC
3. Home phone
4. Car phone
OUTBOUND: EFFICIENCY AND SIMPLICITY
Glenda forgot her PDA and mobile phone at the office, but she
WHERE IS BOB? ➤ ➤ TRY BOB’S HOME ➤ ➤ TRY BOB’S
doesn’t need either — she has Ossia. WORK HOME OTHER OFFICE PHONE MOBILE PHONE
From a pay phone, Glenda calls Ossia and, using simple voice
commands (“Find Bob!”), she tells Ossia to locate and contact Mark,
Casey, and Bob. OSSIA ACCESSES THE ROUTING PROFILE Voice mail. No answer.
Alternatively, Glenda could have connected with Ossia from her CURRENTLY SPECIFIED BY BOB: Ossia continues search. Ossia continues search.
laptop PC, and used Ossia’s desktop application to begin the search for 1. Home office phone
her colleagues. 2. Mobile phone
3. Laptop PC

8. “ Hi, Glenda,
this is Mark” 09:30:05am COMMUNICATE: YOUR WAY
Glenda initiated this Ossia conference from a
telephone. While that means that she and Casey (who
is also connected via telephone) are limited to voice
communication during this conference, Bob and Mark
have other options.
Because they’re both connected via PC, Bob
and Mark can enhance their par ticipation in the
conference to include full-motion video and /or instant
➤ ➤ TRY CASEY’S
HOME PHONE
➤ ➤ TRY CASEY’S CAR PHONE text messaging to one another (while still participating
in the audio conference with Glenda and Casey)— all
with just a click.
No answer. CONNECTED!
“Hi, everyone,
09:31:30am
Ossia continues search. Casey is sitting in traffic on her way to the dentist.
She identifies herself with her PIN code and joins
the conference.
this is Casey”
➤ ➤ TRY BOB’S
LAPTOP PC
CONNECTED!
Bob’s at a hotel in Chicago, working
“ Hi, Glenda &
Mark, this is Bob” 09:31:15am
on his laptop. He accepts Glenda’s
invitation and joins the conference.

9. A revolutionary solution ➤➤ ➤➤
(without the revolution).
If you’re concerned that a communications Ossia’s architecture is designed around the concept Pragmatic pricing. Ossia’s pricing structure is
solution as powerful as Ossia might mean huge of component-based network- and protocol-specific based on a “per-user, per-month” model, with incentives
investments in new IT infrastructure, training, and gateways that interact appropriately with Ossia’s core for charter customers, long-term contracts, and larger
administration, relax. servers. This architecture enables Ossia to seamlessly user populations. Your up-front investment is minimal,
leverage your current IT systems and deliver powerful and with Ossia’s streamlined implementation cycle, you
Ossia is a non-invasive overlay to your existing new functionality without changing your infrastructure. will soon be realizing the cost-saving and revenue-
IT infrastructure that adds tremendous value to it generating benefits of faster, easier communication.
without supplanting or disturbing your existing systems Innovative design.
and operations. It is designed specifically to avoid Clear advantages. Foresight. Ossia 1.0 is just the beginning, of
burdening either your system or your IT personnel. course. Soon, Ossia will include robust collaboration
And, its clear, intuitive interfaces make the need for Ubiquitous access. Ossia’s gateway architecture tools and still more powerful and intelligent
user training minimal—if you can use a PC and a bridges the Public Switched Telephone Network communications capabilities.
telephone, you already have all the skills you need. (PSTN) with Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Finally,
communication access is not limited to a specific And, because flexibility and scalability are
A few words about architecture. end-point device or network. universal priorities, Ossia can accommodate not only
a growing enterprise, but emerging networks, protocols,
Today’s communication infrastructure is saddled Intelligent management. Network bridging and and devices, helping to protect and extend your IT
with systems, networks and protocols that were never infrastructure utilization are irrelevant unless a simple, investments both today and in the future.
intended to work together. Ossia harnesses and merges synergistic user experience results. Ossia provides easy
the power of these existing assets without forcing access, user control, and user choice in both inbound We also understand your critical need for a
you to acquire new devices, new networks, or other and outbound modes. reliable, stable, secure, and privacy-sensitive solution. So,
costly resources. ongoing support—from implementation onward—is
Bandwidth considerations. Not all enterprise a fundamental part of our commitment to you.
networks are created equal. While faster networks
provide an optimal Ossia user experience, Ossia was
designed to accommodate a wide range of network
capabilities without dramatically taxing resources.

10. If you could change the way your
company communicates, you would.
Now, you can.
Ossia is the first communications solution
that truly merges the power of technology with the
intuitive, spontaneous nature of human interaction.
It lets your people work with one another in the
ways they want to…and need to. It puts you back
in control of your communication, your tasks, I T ’ S T I ME .
and your time.
And, Ossia does it all without disrupting your
systems, your workflow, or your budget.
If you’d like to learn more, please call Axiom8
at 860.343.5366.

11. 421 Wadsworth Street Middletown, CT 06457
860.343.5366 www.axiom8.com
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Ossia 1.0