Features of the SMS Server
SMS Engine - Features | |
Intelligent Message Sending (Automatic retries) |
In certain situations, for example on New Year's Eve, the GSM network fails. In these cases it is not possible to send SMS messages. The intelligent message sending capability of Ozeki SMS helps in these situations. If a message cannot be sent for any reason, the software tries to re-send it a couple of times. Between each retry a certain amount of time (e.g. 10 minutes) is spent, to wait for the network to be available again. If there are six failures, the message is considered undelivered and the users are notified. |
Intelligent Message Sending (Message queues) |
The sending of an SMS message takes about six seconds. If many messages should be sent in a short time, a message queue must be built, so no messages are lost when the phone is busy. Ozeki SMS handles message queues. The contents of the outgoig message queue can be seen in the outbox folder. |
Multiple Device Support | For one GSM module it takes about 6 seconds to send an SMS message. You can speed this up by attaching more than one module to your computer. If you have two phones attached to send messages, you get twice the speed. Ozeki SMS candle more than one devices simultaneously to increase performance. |
Least Cost Routing | If you attach more than one GSM terminals to the system, each with a different network operator (e.g. Vodafone, Orange, Sunrise, T-Mobile), you can select the device that offers the best price automatically when you try to send an SMS |
USER Interface - Features | |
Automatic Message Forwarding | The built-in user interface makes it possible to forward any incoming message to other phone number(s). It is possible to forward an incomming message to more then one phone based on the sender phonenumber ot the message text. |
Automatic Message Replies | The automatic forwarding feature can be used to generate automatic message replies. |
Message Templates | To speed up work, you can define default messages in advance. These predefined messages are called message templates. When you want to send an SMS you can choose a template and edit it |
Address Book | Ozeki SMS has a built-in address book. This helps to find phone numbers of contacts you already have in your system. (The addressbook stores the enteries in .csv format) |
Group Messaging | Sometimes (e.g. around Christmas) you need to send a large number of SMS messages with the same or similar content. In this case the group messaging feature provided by Ozeki SMS can make your job easier. You can send messages to a lot of phone numbers (up to a few thousand) with only a few clicks |
Message History | With Ozeki SMS, you can keep track of your messages anytime. The user interface provides information about the status of the outgoing message. You can see when it is sent and when it is received. If the message could not be sent you are also informed. |
Multilingual User Interface | The user interface of Ozeki SMS can be easily converted to any languages. Currently English and Hungarian is available. |
Message Folders | In case of having a lot of incoming messages it is a good idea to organize them into folders. Ozeki SMS provides a possibility to create new folders and to save your messages to them |
Integrated Printing | You can print your messages and log files to your default system printer |
Advanced, Dynamic Module support | Ozeki SMS uses Microsoft's COM/COM+ technology to communicate with application extensions. This way the pluggable modules that provide a lot of additional features work very efficiently at a high speed |
Microsoft Excel Support | If you have your contacts in Microsoft Excel, you can use the built-in Excel support of Ozeki SMS. This allows you to send your SMS messages directly from Excel, simply by pressing a button. This feature is created with an Excel Macro that loads all the messages into the server |
Features of the built in plugins | |
Database Support | You can connect a database server to Ozeki SMS. In this case the incoming SMS messages are automatically saved into a database table and another database table is checked periodically for outgoing SMS messages. The database (MSSQL, Access, Mysql,Sybase, Postgres, Oracle, Interbase and many other are supported.) |
More information
- Ozeki SMS Screenshots
- Features of the SMS Server
- Screenhost
- Ozeki SMS Server Installation Guide
- Ozeki SMS
- SMSC numbers
- GSM Networks
- GSM 7 bit character set