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About Rackspace

Rackspace® is the #1 managed cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.

We integrate the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need. We deliver best-fit solutions by leveraging a portfolio of public cloud, private cloud, dedicated servers, and a combination of platforms. Most importantly, it's all backed by our award-winning Fanatical Support.

The company offers choice, flexibility and freedom from vendor lock-in.

About Goolara

Available as either on-premise software, or as a cloud-based, hosted solution, Goolara Symphonie features an intuitive interface that makes it a breeze to create sophisticated email marketing campaigns without the hassles of other systems. Unlike some marketing software, Goolara Symphonie comes with everything you need to segment, customize and personalize your mailings for maximum impact. Its robust assortment of report features give you the ability to analyze every aspect of your campaigns, from the A/B split results, to time of day effectiveness. Symphonie’s rich functionality and robust API provides everything marketers need to orchestrate, track and act on their email marketing initiatives. Its interface is intuitive and easy to use. Its reporting abilities and dynamic content features are some of the best in the business. The software’s security features satisfy the most demanding network and compliance requirements, including functional-based permissions, audit logs, integrated passwords and a method of secure, real-time access to external data sources.

Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, Goolara, LLC has been in business since 2005. Their Symphonie digital marketing system is a versatile and feature-rich solution popular with agencies and other companies that work across multiple sales channels. Available as either licensed on-premise software, or as a cloud-based, hosted solution, Goolara Symphonie features an intuitive interface that makes it a breeze to create sophisticated digital marketing campaigns. Its interface is intuitive and easy to use.

About Versature

Versature is a SaaS-based unified communications provider, delivering the highest-quality hosted VoIP, SIP trunking and call data solutions to the Canadian market. Trusted by clients and partners across Canada, Versature is raising the bar for business VoIP services with a suite of sophisticated features, enterprise integrations, free international calling to over 30 countries and innovative analytics tools to help businesses reach high-performance goals.

Versature is a customer-centric organization dedicated to providing the most reliable business tools to the Canadian market. From Versature’s 1:1 onboarding process to the dedicated Customer Support Managers, each Versature client receives the guidance and assistance they need to optimize their communications and customize a solution that caters to the business’ unique needs. The geo-redundant data centers and disaster recovery solutions ensures business continuity for clients regardless of natural disasters or weather impairments. Versature’s Canadian-based award-winning tech support team is reachable 24/7.

Features
All Versature plans come packed with valuable standard and not-so-standard business phone features.

Business and Operational Features

• Local Area Codes
• Unlimited International Calling to 30+ Countries
• Advanced Auto Attendant/Digital Receptionist
• Toll-Free
• Call Queues
• Ring Groups
• Custom On-Hold Music or Messaging
• Voicemail, Voicemail-to-Email, Voicemail Transcription
• Real-Time Analytics and Dashboards
• Geo-Redundant Data Centres
• Disaster Recovery
• Integrations with Leading SaaS Platforms
• Mobile App

Call Control Features

• Call Forwarding
• Call Hold
• 3-Way Call Conferencing
• Call Park and Retrieve
• Find Me, Follow Me
• Simultaneous Ring
• Call Transfer
• Do Not Disturb
• Call Pull
• Call Return

Administration Features

• Sonar, Self Service Portal
• Transparent Invoices
• Detailed Call History Short and Long-Term Call Recording
• Call Data & Analytics Softwares
• System Integrations

Salesforce: record call details and activity notes into leads, tickets, and contacts at the click of a button + inbound call functionality and record matching
Slack: effectively monitor incoming calls to specific extensions, phone numbers, or call queues and collaborate
Klipfolio: Gain deeper business insights by mashing up call data with data from CRMs, web analytics, project management tools and more.
Google Chrome: click to dial any embedded phone number from any webpage accessed through your Google Chrome web browser plus get unique social caller ID details on inbound calls through screen pops
Social Caller ID - Know more about who is calling with social business intelligence from Google, Twitter, and Facebook for all calls coming into the Versature network.
blueButler - Insurance brokers can keep detailed call recordings and an audit trail with Versature's blueButler integration.
Google Sheets - Analyze detailed call data your way to view call performance and align or mashup with operational system data.

Insights
Versature Insights is a suite of tools that enables organizations to gain unique perspectives and uncover business trends based on data generated from phone-based communications. Companies can leverage their Versature call data to create a culture of high-achievement by gamifying individual and team performance, communicate service levels transparently to improve relationships, build brand loyalty, and remain compliant with industry standards and legislative requirements.

Customer Success
From the initial phone call, businesses are rest assured that they are partnering with a company who has a vested interest in their success. Versature customers enjoy a seamless onboarding process and appreciate the continual support and learning from Versature’s Technical Support and Customer Success Teams.

The Versature TRUST Initiative
Launched in 2013, the Versature TRUST initiative provides public insight into live and historical system status updates regarding the Versature network. In an effort to maintain strong, trusted, and transparent customer and partner relations, Versature has taken it upon themselves to offer proactive and up-to-the-minute notifications on service levels affecting their user base. Customers can subscribe to updates to receive live system status updates delivered straight to their inbox in order to monitor Versature service levels that may affect their organization.

Features

• API
• Bulk Domain Management
• Calendar Management
• Dashboard
• External Integrations
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Scheduling

Features

• A/B Testing
• API
• Audience Targeting
• Brand Management
• Calendar Management
• Contact Management
• Contact Sharing
• Conversion Tracking
• Customer Management
• Dashboard
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Data Visualization
• Email Integration
• External Integrations
• Google Apps Integration
• Lead Management
• Lead Scoring
• Marketing Automation
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Scheduling
• Social-Media Integration
• Third-Party Plugins/Add-Ons

Features

• 2-Factor Authentication
• API
• Chat
• Contact Management
• Contact Sharing
• CRM Integration
• Dashboard
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Data Visualization
• External Integrations
• File Transfer
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Scheduling
• Video
• SMS
• Call Recording
• Call Tracking
• Call Disposition
• Softphone
• Click-to-Dial
• Report & Compliance
• Hardware Integration
• Mobile App
• Automatic Call Distribution
• Auto Dialer
• Call Logging
• Call Monitoring
• Call Scripting
• Interactive Voice Response
• Audio Recording

Summary

• Solutions built for your needs: Whether its one of our Cloud, Dedicated or Email & Apps offerings, we'll always help you find the best solution for your bespoke needs, not ours, If you end up spending less, that's great!

• Greenspace: From cost-effective green servers to company-wide conservation programs, our Greenspace™ initiative is dedicated to doing business in an eco-friendly way.

• The world's service leader in hosting: Hosting is all we do. We've set the standard for Cloud, Managed and Email Hosting with our support, expertise and diverse solutions. That's why in 2012 Rackspace won the prestigious UK Customer Experience Award for IT & Telecoms.

• Fanatical Support: It’s our unbeatable level of customer service. Rackspace employees are available 24/7/365 to meet and exceed customer expectations.

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• Voicemail to Email Transcriptions

• User and Administrative Portals

• Auto Attendants

• iOS and Android Mobile Apps

• Integrations with Powerful Business Tools

• Complimentary Phone Rentals

• Free International Calling to 30+ Countries

Pricing

• Starting from: $200.00/month
• Credit card required: N/A

• Hosted: $200 USD for 10,000 messages sent per month; price drops as the volume increases. On-premise: Installation fee of $3,000 for up to 25k unique recipients. No per message cost after that.

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Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Marketers who want a full-featured email marketing solution, but don't like being hit with hidden costs for additional features such as transactional mail, A/B split testing, and workflow automation.

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes, we have a very robust API.

What is this service generally used for?

• Promotional, transactional, and triggered mailings for any purpose. Email marketing that requires report metrics. Automated email systems.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Yes. Licenses are company based, so there is never a limit on how many people within a company can use the product. Each can have their own log on, and the administrator can control the access capabilities for each employee.

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• It will integrate with any app that can access an API. Salesforce integration comes built in.

What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?

• Salesforce and other CRM systems.

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Yes to all.

What platforms does this service support?

• Symphonie is browser-based software, and works with all the popular browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari, Edge, etc. It is platform independent.

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