Kelly Walls, Chief Information Officer RSUI Group, Inc.

Senior VP of information technology Kelly Walls likes the time-saving benefits of unified messaging. Like many suburbanites, Kelly Walls used to dread his commute, a 40-minute nightmare that lay between his home and the sprawling city of Atlanta. But all that has changed thanks to the help of a unified messaging product that lets him access faxes, voice mail, and e-mail messages from his cell phone, thereby transforming dead time into some of the most productive time in his day. "Now, instead of coming into work and spending the first 30 minutes answering e-mail and voice mail, I've already taken care of that work in the car. It's turned my commute into productive time so I'm not just sitting in traffic," he says. The growing popularity and build-up of the area has given Atlanta the dubious honor of having one of the longest commutes in the country, says Walls, senior vice president of information technology at Royal Specialty Underwriting, a $350-million property and casualty insurance company, which is using Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Unified Messenger software. Email Article Walls and his peers at Royal Specialty Underwriting, in Atlanta, are not the only ones steering toward unified messaging to make better use of their time.

Unified Messenger has made our voice messaging much easier , said Kelly Walls , vice_president information technology of RSUI.With this new system , our work force is more productive and efficient , with each person saving time by having only one mailbox to access.Our work force particularly likes the ability to listen to its e-mail messages over the telephone.Unified Messenger dramatically improves our employees' productivity when they are_out of the office..Octel Unified Messenger is sold and supported through certified Octel Solution Alliance Members ( OSAMs ) .In_addition , Unified Messenger will be available through certified Octel Overture distributors , as_well_as the Octel Messaging Division sales force. ( See also press_release : Lucent_Technologies Establishes Canadian Distribution Channel For Octel Unified Messenger , November 1997. ).

"Unified Messenger has made our voice messaging much easier," said Kelly Walls, vice president information technology of RSUI."With this new system, our work force is more productive and efficient, with each person saving time by having only one mailbox to access.Our work force particularly likes the ability to listen to its e-mail messages over the telephone.Unified Messenger dramatically improves our employees' productivity when they are out of the office." Octel Unified Messenger is sold and supported through certified Octel Solution Alliance Members (OSAMs).In addition, Unified Messenger will be available through certified Octel Overture distributors, as well as the Octel Messaging Division sales force. (See also press release: Lucent Technologies Establishes Canadian Distribution Channel For Octel Unified Messenger, November 1997.)