Last Man Standing: The Future of Independent Application Development Tools

With Cisco’s recent purchase of Audium, the number of independent, voice-application development tool providers in
the market has been reduced to one: Vicorp. As the independent tool market dissolves, the focus shifts towards providers of niche functionality and service differentiation that hasn’t been addressed by the classic tool vendors. Being the last man standing, Vicorp is now positioned to build OEM relationships with Nortel, Intervoice and Genesys – the three voice self-service platform vendors with multiple platforms and without an appropriate developer tool strategy – or even become an acquisition target. As the last of the independent tool providers, Vicorp still has plenty of value.

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