SMS has proven to be the mobile phone killer application. Its penetration is such that few people (friends, partners, employees, customers, doctors, patients, family, suppliers, etc.) cannot be reached through this ubiquitous messaging medium.

While SMS is a homogeneous medium, the requirements and applications for and of SMS can be very diverse – ranging from sending a message to a colleague or loved one, confirmation of an appointment to see a doctor from a medical practice to a patient, to the real-time confirmation of financial transactions by a banking system or even as part of a priority alert mechanism for a critical business operation. SMS is already being used in mission critical areas such as sending reminders to tuberculosis patients to take their critical medication and to notify support staff when critical systems exceed their accepted operating parameters. There is a role for SMS messaging in almost every sphere of life

SimTech has developed three solutions, each aimed at addressing messaging challenges of differing complexity, while attempting to maintain an acceptable level of simplicity appropriate for the use or application of the solution.

The power of the SMSWay feature-set lies in the accessibility of each bit of functionality; enabling the chosen solution to fit into ones existing business processes rather than having to change ones business to accommodate the messaging requirement

There is an SMSWay edition to meet your needs, regardless of how simple or complex your messaging requirement.

On this page is a brief summary of the features of each SMSWay edition

• Personal address book
• Message delivery confirmation
• Customisable distribution lists
• Mail merge tags for personalised bulk messages
• Contact list import – export
• Carbon copy messages to email address
• And lots more…

• Shared address books and contact lists
• Client/Server architecture (workgroup server runs on any windows computer – does not need a dedicated server)
• Central administration for managing users, address lists, etc.
• Shared account so you don’t have to have separate accounts for all users
• Scheduled send. SMS’s can be sent in real time or you can set up a flexible schedule
• Central audit (send and delivery reports) logs
• Shared contact history
• Only the server needs to be able to access the outside world. Suitable for workgroups where users do not have internet access

• Shared address books and contact lists
• Server based. Users can use SMSWay client or browser to send SMS’s
• SMSWay client as well as intranet interface access
• Several open interfaces to integrate other corporate systems such as Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, etc.) COM, DLL, CORBA, File Upload, etc.
• Workgroups. The enterprise can be divided into workgroups, each with its own authorised users, and separate contact lists, etc.
• Budgeting. A budget can be setup for each workgroup to manage the usage by each workgroup.
• Single SMSWay account so that individual workgroups and users do not need separate accounts
• Three modes supported:
  • real-time SMSing whereby SMS’s are sent in real time as soon as they are queued
  • Scheduled SMSing whereby SMS’s are batched to be sent according to a periodic schedule
  • Bulk SMSing typically used for sending large volumes of SMS’s.
• Bulk send windows to ensure that bulk SMS’s do not to clog up the corporate network during peak operating periods