“Jim said he wanted it to be so easy that his grandfather could set it up.
“Our biggest differentiator-the thing really driving the project from the start-was ease of use,” says vice president of business development Mike Tomazic, another ex-Microsofter.
A stripped-down free version for Skype that provides basic functions is also available. Thirty-day trial versions of both are available for download at the Web site. The more full-functioned SIP version, CallButler Unlimited Edition, sells for $249.95, the Skype version, CallButler Pro, for $29.95. It would include auto attendant and IVR (interactive voice response) features, voicemail, and basic call handling. The idea was to create an inexpensive phone system that would help small businesses be more efficient and also project size and professionalism. Works Out launched the CallButler line, which includes versions for Skype and SIP-based VoIP services, in September 2006. Net SDK was well launched, Heising looked around for a new project and decided to implement a complete solution around the technology the firm had developed. Not quite ready to retire, and intrigued by the possibilities of VoIP, he started the new company, initially to develop a VoIP software development kit (SDK) using Microsoft’s. Heising formed the company two and a half years ago after selling off an earlier start-up, Giant Software (anti-spyware tools) to Microsoft. that provides small businesses with a complete phone system, using Skype, for about $30.Ĭall Butler is the brain child of ex-Microsofter Jim Heising, Works Out’s president and CEO. He left the main Verizon number in place and installed CallButler a software PBX from Works Out Software Inc.
Taylor ripped out five of them-for a savings of about $200 a month. The office had about six lines from Verizon. “Mainly I wanted to make it possible for employees to take calls wherever they are because many of them work at least part of the time at home.” “I was looking for a way to reduce expenses related to land line phones and also improve telephone functions,” he explains. Taylor manages an independent branch of Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp., a residential mortgage brokerage firm, in Warrenton, Virginia. After Eric Taylor tried Skype at home for a few months, he decided it was good enough to use at work-and would solve a couple of pressing problems there.
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