Tellme partners up

Microsoft subsidiary Tellme has announced it has a total of ten "go-to-market" and professional service partners to build and sell voice-enabled customer self-service applications for enterprises.

Go-to-market resellers include Aspect Software (No big surprise there; Microsoft owns a chunk of Aspect, so play well with your half-sibling), Dimension Data, NEC Unified Solutions, Quilogy and Speech Cycle. Professional service partners include Gold Systems, Mackraz Design, Pivot Systems, Servion and VoxMedia. The professional service partners are working with Tellme to provide (i.e. build) voice-enabled speech apps in key vertical markets.

Tellme is preaching a partner model where the "go-to-market" partner owns the customer relationship and shares in the long-term revenue stream from the use of Tellme-billable services. There's also a bonus point being plugged - since Tellme is a hosted SaaS (software-as-a-service) service and has an in-house cloud computing infrastructure, clients have the ability to rapidly scale without having to invest in capital equipment.

It will be interesting to see if/when Tellme migrates its cloud infrastructure over to Microsoft's Azure platform/service.

For more:
- Read the Tellme release [1].

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