SOKRATES® Communicator is your personal phone assistant: Not only it helps you dial out with one mouseclick, it also listens to your phone line and displays contact data for incoming phone calls automatically, lets you transfer calls to other users, holds your phone notes, forwards a call for you and reminds you of calls you have to do or answer.

You can directly accept incoming phone calls over VoIP, or redirect them to other people. Other functionality:

• Call redirection before answering
• Call rejection
• Transfer the call to another contact: A secretary also can talk directly to a person before connecting him to the caller!
• Conference calls
• Call back missed calls

• Schedule a phone call for later, delegate to others
• Schedule follow-up tasks, e.g. sending an email, calling somebody, prepare a document etc.
• Get data about the partner on the phone, including journal, documents, emails, phone protocols etc.
• Phone call protocols
• Time measurement
• See a contact's Skype® status
• Call from and to VoIP or landline or mobile phone numbers allowed, even hold phone conferences with several landlines simultaniously! (Skype-In®, Skype-Out® and Skype-Pro® service required)

Using the optional Skype® interface, you can have your own integrated professional software-PBX with unmatched features for a very low price. All you need is SOKRATES® and a central Skype® account with SkypeIn®, SkypeOut® and SkypePro® for your company/family and (optionally) free Skype® accounts for your team:

• Keep your business landline phone number and redirect it to your Skype® number or publish your central Skype® number: Incoming calls will ring at your operators system (e.g. secretary).
• Use call forwarding to define other operators or even landlines: Every phone call will be taken!
• If all lines are occupied, the voicemail system will answer
• Redirect incoming calls to other operators via internet: Ideal for small businesses whithout a fulltime operator. The operator's location can be defined to be anywhere in the world, on Skype or even landlines or mobiles.
• FULL Call Transfer: let the operator talk to a team member before connecting him to an incoming call
• Transfer incoming landline/mobile/VoIP calls to landline/mobile/VoIP phones of your team members.
• Get the contact details data immediately when the phone rings. See his journal, the phone call and email track and all documents and open then with one click.
• Keep track of missed phone calls, schedule a call-back or even delegate call-backs to your team colleages.
• Register and protocol every phone call on contact and project
• While being on the line, schedule follow-up phone calls, emails, send or schedule documents and much more...
• Establish phone conferences with a mixture of VoIP, mobile and landline participants.
• Skype® phone call functionality is fully integrated into SOKRATES®.
• For all these features, you do not need a hardware PBX at all...