Angel (company)
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Angel is a American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 telecommunications company supplying interactive voice response
Interactive voice response
Interactive voice response is a technology that allows a computer to interact with humans through the use of voice and DTMF keypad inputs....

, call center technology, and voice applications to business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

es over the internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 using the software as a service
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...

 model. Angel is a subsidiary of MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy, Inc. , is a business intelligence software vendor. MicroStrategy's software enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make more strategic business decisions...

. Angel technology integrates with products from both MicroStrategy and Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

.

History

Angel was developed by the CEO of MicroStrategy Michael J. Saylor
Michael J. Saylor
Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur, industrialist, and co-founder of MicroStrategy, Inc., an enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence , enterprise reporting, dashboard, and OLAP software. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive...

, in 1997 as DSS Telecaster and DSS Broadcaster and were then merged into Angel.com. Moving away from the original telecaster idea, the company signed its first small business customers at the end of 2001 as a provider of hosted interactive voice response. Angel.com was incorporated on April 30, 2008.

In 2009, Dave Rennyson, former VP of Sales at Angel, was named President and COO
replacing long-time CEO Michael Zirngibl. In 2011, Angel introduced Voice for Twitter Voice for Facebook, and Voice for Chatter, applications that add voice capabilities to the popular social networks and Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

's internal social network, Chatter.

Angel.com shed the ".com" from its publicly branded name in August 2010 in an effort "to support its ongoing large-enterprise customer base" and remove legacy ties to the .com names that were popular 10 years earlier.

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Angel is a American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 telecommunications company supplying interactive voice response
Interactive voice response
Interactive voice response is a technology that allows a computer to interact with humans through the use of voice and DTMF keypad inputs....

, call center technology, and voice applications to business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

es over the internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 using the software as a service
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...

 model. Angel is a subsidiary of MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy, Inc. , is a business intelligence software vendor. MicroStrategy's software enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make more strategic business decisions...

. Angel technology integrates with products from both MicroStrategy and Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

.

History

Angel was developed by the CEO of MicroStrategy Michael J. Saylor
Michael J. Saylor
Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur, industrialist, and co-founder of MicroStrategy, Inc., an enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence , enterprise reporting, dashboard, and OLAP software. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive...

, in 1997 as DSS Telecaster and DSS Broadcaster and were then merged into Angel.com. Moving away from the original telecaster idea, the company signed its first small business customers at the end of 2001 as a provider of hosted interactive voice response. Angel.com was incorporated on April 30, 2008.

In 2009, Dave Rennyson, former VP of Sales at Angel, was named President and COO
replacing long-time CEO Michael Zirngibl. In 2011, Angel introduced Voice for Twitter Voice for Facebook, and Voice for Chatter, applications that add voice capabilities to the popular social networks and Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

's internal social network, Chatter.

Angel.com shed the ".com" from its publicly branded name in August 2010 in an effort "to support its ongoing large-enterprise customer base" and remove legacy ties to the .com names that were popular 10 years earlier.

External links





Angel is a American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 telecommunications company supplying interactive voice response
Interactive voice response
Interactive voice response is a technology that allows a computer to interact with humans through the use of voice and DTMF keypad inputs....

, call center technology, and voice applications to business
Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

es over the internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 using the software as a service
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...

 model. Angel is a subsidiary of MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy, Inc. , is a business intelligence software vendor. MicroStrategy's software enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make more strategic business decisions...

. Angel technology integrates with products from both MicroStrategy and Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

.

History

Angel was developed by the CEO of MicroStrategy Michael J. Saylor
Michael J. Saylor
Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur, industrialist, and co-founder of MicroStrategy, Inc., an enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence , enterprise reporting, dashboard, and OLAP software. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive...

, in 1997 as DSS Telecaster and DSS Broadcaster and were then merged into Angel.com. Moving away from the original telecaster idea, the company signed its first small business customers at the end of 2001 as a provider of hosted interactive voice response. Angel.com was incorporated on April 30, 2008.

In 2009, Dave Rennyson, former VP of Sales at Angel, was named President and COO
replacing long-time CEO Michael Zirngibl. In 2011, Angel introduced Voice for Twitter Voice for Facebook, and Voice for Chatter, applications that add voice capabilities to the popular social networks and Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site...

's internal social network, Chatter.

Angel.com shed the ".com" from its publicly branded name in August 2010 in an effort "to support its ongoing large-enterprise customer base" and remove legacy ties to the .com names that were popular 10 years earlier.

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