Artisoft products will go on remote Assault.

Artisoft is spending u250,000 on a channel marketing programme in the UK over the next four months. Code-named 'Assault', the programme will help kick-start the company's move into the remote access business.

The products, Cosession Remote and Modem Share, have been upgraded and rebranded as the Insync range, and were inherited from the Triton Technologies acquisition in January. Artisoft promises to make more acquisitions this year of around $10 to $12 million in order to bolster its diversification into remote access and CTI markets said Olivier Zitoun, Artisoft vice president of sales and marketing for Europe.

A full announcement on the products will be sent out to 700 Lantastic dealers in April followed by advertising in the computer press in May.

One hundred demonstration copies will be given away free.

Steve Bratt, managing director of RSM Networks, an Artisoft dealer, said: 'Cosession means that I won't have to travel vast distances and can use it as a value-add service by killing 80 per cent of problems remotely.'