Fax Solutions
One of All Star's core competencies is providing high-performance enterprise fax management solutions. The All Star fax server solutions are unique in their ability to simultaneously support all major operating systems, email systems and major applications. With an All Star fax solution, you can "fax-enable" any workflow, imaging, transaction processing, or messaging application. In addition, All Star's solutions are scaleable so that as your fax traffic increases so can the capabilities of your fax server. In other words, All Star has reliable and complete solutions to meet complex fax management needs.

Why implement a fax solution?

• Easily send broadcast faxes to hundreds of recipients
• Fax-enable applications, so that documents such as purchase orders and invoices can be faxed automatically by the application
• Receive faxes 24 hours a day, every day, since the fax server is specifically designed to run continuously
• Never have to worry that a fax machine running out of paper or toner prevents them from successfully receiving a fax
• Never have to worry that anyone else will view their sensitive, confidential fax
• Save time and money by not having to leave their desk in order to send/receive a fax

Rather than eliminate the need for fax, the widespread use of e-mail and the Internet has actually contributed to a resurgence of interest in fax technology. Why? Over the last few years, computer viruses, worms and trojan horse programs have been a painful and costly reality for worldwide business. Because of this threat, the only 100 percent safe e-mail attachment is a deleted e-mail file attachment." Unlike an e-mail attachment, a fax document is an image file, NOT AN EDITABLE FILE. For that reason, courts of law accept faxed documents as legal documents. For that reason, the format of highly complex documents is retained, with the sender never having to worry the recipient has a compatible program in which to open the document. (A fax document is a TIFF image file and can be opened in the Windows Imaging program shipped standard with all Windows workstation operating systems.)

Beyond Just Faxes

The All Star fax management solutions extend to solutions for email clients (Exchange, Notes, GroupWise and SMTP-based email), NT and NetWare network clients and host-based clients/applications. In addition, the All Star fax solutions provide three Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for developing your own custom applications, as well as the services of the All Star Professional Services Group (PSG), which customizes fax solutions to meet your business needs.

Throughout the Enterprise

The All Star fax solutions work with or on the following platforms:

Email Solutions

• Exchange/Outlook
• Lotus Domino
• Internet/SMTP
• GroupWise
  

Network Solutions

• Windows 2000
• NDS
• Web Client

Production Fax Solutions

• Linux
• AS/400
• UNIX Systems
• IBM Mainframe
• HP 3000
• Tandem

APIs and Customized Solutions

• FCL
• COM API
• Envelope Specification
• Messaging APIs
• CDO
• Java API