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Apstel’s Visual Dialplan Code Zone featured on TMCnet

September 30th 2009

article By Jayashree Adkoli, TMCnet

Apstel’s “Visual Dialplan Code Zone” is a Web site for developers to find solutions, share ideas and solve problems. It will be providing developers with code snippets, dial plan examples as well as a wiki containing tutorials – for developers creating applications based on Asterisk platform.

Back in February, Apstel had unveiled the Visual Dialplan, which is rapid application development platform for Asterisk dial plan development, a GUI (graphical user interface) or a visual tool that enables users to design and validate Asterisk dialplan in an easy way.

Apstel’s Visual Dialplan features a drag-and-drop visual modeling environment and a large component library. Apart from providing useful dial plan examples to developers, it also offers a robust validation engine and single button deployment functionality.

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Apstel Launches Visual Dialplan Code Zone

September 9th 2009

Code, tutorials, dial plan examples and discussion for developers creating Asterisk applications

Apstel today unveiled Visual Dialplan Code Zone, an online knowledge base and community for developers who are developing Asterisk applications.

The Visual Dialplan is rapid application development platform for Asterisk dial plan development. It features a drag-and-drop visual modeling environment and a large component library. In addition, it offers useful dial plan examples, a robust validation engine, and single button deployment functionality. It can even gather information to use regarding Asterisk server configuration and pre-populates library components with configuration data to easier dial plan development.

The platform helps create a new dial plan, preserve or upgrade an existing dialplan, and test Asterisk IVR, queues, conferencing, voicemail, TTS, ASR and other capabilities. The Visual Dialplan enables users to view inbound and outbound call flows making contexts and subroutines descriptive and validates dialplan before it is deployed to the Asterisk box. Users can develop Asterisk dial plans using Visual Dialplan and then deploy them directly to Asterisk, trixbox, PBX In a Flash or Elastix server. Besides building standard Asterisk dialplans Visual Dialplan can be used to build powerful voice applications based on LumenVox speech recognition technology.

Visual Dialplan Code Zone is a website for developers to find solutions, share ideas and solve problems. It includes a wiki containing tutorials, code snippets, dial plan examples and will include forum for ongoing discussion and tools to simplify development and testing.

Apstel also opens the contest to find the most useful Asterisk dial plans developed with Visual Dialplan. The group of judges will review all received dial plans and select the winner. The winner will get the free Visual Dialplan Professional license (or other license of choice for the same value).

Visual Dialplan Survey winner announced

July 10th 2009

Thank you all for your time and the great ideas and suggestions you sent to us! Your thoughts and ideas for future product improvements are extremely valuable to us. Our product management team will take it all into consideration and determine the priorities we will work on in the future.

We received unexpectedly high number of feedbacks, very good and quality feedbacks, and it took more time to review it all that we originally planned but still it was very hard to determine the most productive feedback. However one user really submitted exceptionally detail and useful feedback – congratulations to Matt Mitchell for winning the Visual Dialplan Professional License. Thanks Matt!

We look forward to running similar contests in the future.

Visual Dialplan Professional 2.3 is released

June 4th 2009

Visual Dialplan for Asterisk is next generation development platform for Asterisk dialplan development. It comes with drag-and-drop visual modeling environment and large component library, handy dial plan samples, powerful validation engine, single button deployment functionality and support for trixbox, PIAF and Elastix. It even learns about Asterisk server configuration, pre-populates library components with configuration data and validates the dial plan accordingly.

Besides building standard Asterisk dialplans, starting from this release, you can use Visual Dialplan to build powerful voice applications based on LumenVox speech recognition technology.

Visual Dialplan Professional 2.3 highlights:

All Asterisk dialplan speech recognition applications are supported
Powerful built in speech recognition grammar editor
Grammar files are automatically deployed with the dialplan
Several bug fixes (MySQL component, Gosub component upgrade etc.)

Full functional trial version of Visual Dialplan is available for download here.

Visual Dialplan featured on TMCnet

February 20th 2009

“Concentrating on changing the way Asterisk interacts with users, Apstel is paving the way to easier Asterisk usage and adoption by providing visual tools and solutions for its management. The company is also helping Asterisk extend is market footprint and become the main open source choice in the deployment of communications infrastructure.”

“The Visual Dialplan features a drag-and-drop visual modeling environment and a large component library. In addition, it offers useful dial plan samples, a robust validation engine, and single button deployment functionality.

It can even gather information to use regarding Asterisk server configuration. The Visual Dialplan also pre-populates library components with configuration data and accesses dial plans accordingly.”