Radisys Congratulates Engage Digital Platform Winners in the 2023 TADHack Open Hackathon

Real-world solutions created using Radisys’ award-winning CPaaS platform.

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Radisys^® Corporation, a global leader of open telecom solutions, is pleased to highlight the winners of the 2023 TADHack Open, a hackathon bringing together people from across the global communications industry to develop programmable communications solutions. Participants utilized Radisys’ award-winning, Engage Digital Platform (EDP) to develop apps or “hacks” that address real-world customer challenges and use cases. Radisys’ EDP enables developers to create a full range of communication services, from voice and video calling, speech analytics, video analytics and robust conversational AI-enabled digital engagement solutions using simple-to-use communications APIs, SDKs and low-code/no-code visual design tools.

The TADHack Open event, sponsored exclusively by Radisys, was held March 25-26, 2023, with participants competing in Orlando, Florida, and virtually around the world, is particularly focused on promoting women in technology, especially in the area of programmable communications. The winners are also given the opportunity to demonstrate their solutions to industry leaders on March 28, during Enterprise Connect 2023. Radisys selected three winners for the best hacks from among the TADHack Open submissions.

EDP TADHack Open Winners

• First Place – Guardian Care, a personal health care application using VDT-IVR and IoT instrument integration. Creators: Vikki Horne, Muntaser Syed, and Candy Torres
• Second Place – OneCenter, real-time banking services and call center integration using IVR, CRM, click-to-call, and mobile apps. Creators: Shuaibu Onivehu Ziyad, Aliyu Ibrahim, and Nasiru Mustapha
• Third Place – FitBot, a real-time fitness tracker using a web client and real-time IVR dialog. Creator: Mike Cairns

“Congratulations to the 2023 TADHack Open event winners,” said Al Balasco, Head of Media, Core and Applications Business, Radisys. “Hackathons, like TADHack, are essential to identify unique solutions to common business and individual challenges. The innovative and inspirational use of Radisys’ EDP by TADHack Open participants demonstrates the endless possibilities to quickly develop new, effective communication applications. Additionally, this year, we encouraged the development of Industry 4.0 solutions by including our programmable audio and video analytics capabilities, highlighting how enterprises and service providers can benefit from programmable tools to create advanced digital engagement applications capable of direct integration into their existing 5G, edge and cloud application ecosystem.”

“The TADHack Open winners underscore the importance of programmable communications to people's lives,” said Alan Quayle, Founder, TADHack and TADSummit. “Radisys' Engage Digital Platform is a powerful platform for developers to solve problems across their home, work and community life, using an impressive array of communications, collaboration, and analytics tools.”

About Radisys

Radisys, a global leader in open telecom solutions, enables service providers to drive disruption with new open architecture business models. Radisys’ innovative disaggregated and virtualized enabling technology solutions leverage open reference architectures and standards, combined with open software and hardware to power business transformation for the telecom industry, while its world-class services organization delivers systems integration expertise necessary to solve communications and content providers’ complex deployment challenges. For more information, visit www.radisys.com.

Radisys’ Engage Digital Platform is an award-winning programmable communications platform. Radisys' capacity-based versus consumption-based licensing approach for all products in the Engage Digital Platform offers a truly disruptive economic model relative to alternative programmable communications solutions. It dramatically improves the total cost of ownership (TCO) savings to 70% and greater over competitive cloud-based programmable communications and video analytics solutions, allowing service providers to reap the benefits. For more information, visit www.engagedigital.ai.

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