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Zions Bank Selects Wesley Clover Solutions for Advanced IP Voice Trading System

^{Published on 2011-03-22 07:00:27 - Market Wire}
 

NEW YORK--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Wesley Clover Solutions, a leading provider of IP communications solutions for financial trading firms, today announced that Zions Bank, a publicly traded bank (NASDAQ: ZION)operating in ten Western and Southwestern states has selected Wesley Clover Solutions to provide an integrated IP trading communications platform for their trading floor and trading floor support teams in Salt Lake City, Utah.

"we have been impressed with WCSa™s responsiveness and expertise and we are excited about the significant innovations their platform offers our traders and IT team"

The IP trading turret system will replace Ziona™s legacy turret system and will work seamlessly with a Red Box voice recording software application and the banka™s Cisco CUCM enterprise voice system. The WCS solution is a software-oriented, server-based platform enables trading firms to:

• offer traders and trade support teams the latest multimedia communications capabilities
• conform to corporate security policy and industry regulatory mandates
• significantly reduce space, power and cooling requirements
• leverage existing IT infrastructure investments
• cost-effectively address business continuity, connect branch offices and remote workers
• self-manage system moves, adds and changes

aCompanies like Zions Bank are realizing that our server-based architecture, choice of IP trading desktops and unique support model significantly reduce risk and costs while providing measurable productivity benefits to their traders and trading support teams,a said Al Pigliacelli, Senior Vice-President of Sales for Wesley Clover Solutions. He added aour system offers traders so many capabilities that they have not been accustomed to with turret systems in the past and our automated system monitoring and management tools increase IT staff productivity enabling them to make changes and perform system maintenance without interruption to traders.a

Steven R. Sharp, Director of IT at Zions Bank said "we have been impressed with WCSa™s responsiveness and expertise and we are excited about the significant innovations their platform offers our traders and IT team,a adding athe system design addresses our business requirements especially with respect to business continuity and service levels and fits seamlessly into our overall unified communications portfolio.a

As Mitel's exclusive US partner for the capital markets sector, Wesley Clover Solutions enables customers to reap the benefits of a single, scalable IP communications platform capable of supporting the unique requirements of the trading floor, contact center, back office and branch offices of a multi-location banking enterprise.

About Wesley Clover Solutions

Wesley Clover Solutions designs, sells, installs and maintains voice communications platforms for financial trading organizations, global enterprises and command and control centers. Wesley Clover Solutions meets the growing demand for expertise in managing the transition from Legacy to IP voice communications solutions while reducing risks, complexity and costs. The Company's flagship Crossover Series of IP Desktop Trading Platforms blends the instant communications capability and capacity of traditional turrets with the advanced functionality of IP-PBX in a single, scalable, platform.