New Zealand Software start up Sulaco Technology takes out top award at Broadsoft XCv2 Developers Challenge

Broadsoft co-sponsored the event with Polycom. Developers were invited to create innovative, new application mashups using BroadSoft’s Xtended Web Services and other open application program Interfaces (APIs). This year’s contest drew ten times the number of submissions from around the world as the previous year and was judged by a panel of industry experts.  Sulaco Technology is so new that most readers will not have heard of them until now but based on the products under development, there is no doubt that the communications industry will soon become very familiar with this energetic bunch who focus on building web based, convergent Unified Communications IP transactors. Sulaco solutions bring together next generation networks, VoIP and Internet services to desk top and mobile devices for both the  commercial and consumer market sectors. “This competition was Sulaco’s first at bat,” says non executive director Paul Clarkin. “ and we hit a home run. We have been excited about the potential of myZazu since Grant McLaren (Sulaco developer) first presented his concept.”

myZazu is a fun and functional portal where customers of carriers who have deployed Broadsoft soft switches can initiate phone calls, SMS, email and text to voice transactions from any web enabled device. Fans of Twitter, Face book and other social networking sites are able to customize myZazu to track activity and notify subscribers when someone in their pool of friends has made an update and they can read the Twitters that they track in the same window their phone notifications and other informational transactions are presented. myZazu lets the user customize news feeds so that they receive only the information in which they have interest and can pull Google alerts into the interface as well. The application interfaces with Google apps to pull address book and contact details into their profile and offers contact options as soon as the user starts typing.

For customers of carriers such as WorldxChange/Xnet, myZazu gives communications control a whole new meaning. A person can be anywhere in the world and initiate a phone call that will call their chosen number and then connect them to the number that they have called and charge them as if they were still in their home back in New Zealand. They can control call forwarding features on their Xnet VFX account from the portal without having to log into their account.

myZazu will become available to the public by November this year and will be free to the user. Broadsoft enabled carriers other than WorldxChange, here in NZ and around the world will be able to have their credentials loaded on the myZazu servers so that their clients can use the product as well.

Sulaco Technology was founded by WorldxChange directors Paul Clarkin and Cecil Alexander. Having deployed a full IP Next Generation network here in New Zealand, the pair decided to capitalise on what they have learned converging communications transmission with user driven applications. Sulaco Technology will release products over the next year such as IP billing, CRM and provisioning engines and Automated Response Targeted Information Communicator (ARTIC) that will take cost and people time out of everything from credit control to product marketing.

Developer: WorldxChange Communications/Sulaco Technology (Auckland, New Zealand)/App: MyZazu
Description: an online portal in which individuals can broadcast events and notices via text to speech, e-mail, SMS and twitter, to their contacts. MyZazu integrates telephony, social networking and Google to empower users to take advantage of the many communication methods and customize them to suit their particular needs. With the move to cloud computing and communications, MyZazu is a one-stop shop UC communications portal