Fax Appliance Benefits
Open Text Fax Appliance provides a secure way to integrate network faxing into office, workflow, and messaging applications.
Open Text Fax Appliance, FaxPress Edition (formerly Castelle FaxPress) offers a combined hardware and software faxing solution, providing every possible computer-based, network fax option, such as:
- Desktop faxing
- Automated, production faxing
- Faxing directly from email applications
- Faxing directly from Microsoft Office applications
- Document delivery to both fax and email recipients simultaneously
- Automatic inbound routing to groups' or individuals' fax or email boxes, shared network folders, or printers
- Document management system and electronic workflow integration
- Touch-screen faxing from copiers, scanners and MFPs
- Development tools for custom fax applications
- Fax Reporting, including both individual and system-wide fax transaction logs
- Fax management, transmission tracking, and notification features
- Scheduled broadcast/batch faxing for reduced document delivery costs
- Fax archiving, eliminating the need to keep faxed copies of documents
- Internet faxing, to minimize telephone charges
Fax Appliance servers running on Open Text FaxPress Plus for Fax Appliance software include the following addtional features:
- A secure Web interface, allowing remote internet access to end-user and administrative fax functions
- Web Services SDK lets developers create 128-bit, SSL encrypted custom fax and production fax applications, and also includes sample clients, with source code provided, written in Java, C++, C#, Visual Basic, and Perl.
- Error correction mode (ECM)
- Drag-and-drop routing to groups' or individuals' fax or email boxes, shared network folders, or printer.
- Expanded multi-language character support
- Embedded email gateways
Open Text Fax Appliance, FaxPress Edition is server-based rather than user-based, which means licensing for Fax Appliance allows an unlimited number of fax users at no additional expense.
Open Text Fax Appliance easily integrates with many popular PBXs for automatic delivery of incoming faxes to the recipient's desktop.
Open Text Fax Appliance email gateways allow fax messages to be sent and received as easily as email, right from the mail client.