Interwise(R) Inc., a global leader in enterprise
conferencing solutions, today announced that leading research firm,
IDC, ranked the company first among pure-play conferencing vendors for
its ability to integrate with enterprise applications and IT
infrastructures. IDC also rated Interwise among the top vendors,
including both pure play conferencing and infrastructure vendors,
showing potential for dominating the worldwide conferencing market
based on technical leadership, innovation and business criteria.
According to IDC's report, Worldwide Conferencing Applications Vendor Shares: Putting Web Conferencing to Work, the market for worldwide Web conferencing applications will double in size to reach nearly $1.3 billion in 2009. As this market matures, IDC reports that the most successful conferencing vendors will be able to demonstrate strong ROI, offer pricing and licensing that encourages standardization on their offerings, help customers expand to corporate-wide usage and move users toward integrated voice and web conferencing functionality accessible from the desktop. In the report, IDC rated Interwise first among pure-play conferencing vendors for its ability to integrate with other collaborative applications and infrastructures, and rated Interwise in the top vendors including pure play and infrastructure vendors showing potential for market dominance.
"User firms should look hard at their deployments before continuing their old practices of evaluating and buying conferencing products in silos," said Robert Mahowald, program director, collaborative computing for IDC. "Interwise has invigorated the conferencing market with integrated telephony and web conferencing, combined with a fixed-price license model and architectural capabilities that encourage companies to begin the process of moving conferencing on premise as a corporate-wide desktop utility for live collaboration."
"IDC's report provides a tremendous endorsement for Interwise's position at the forefront of a growing trend where media- and feature-rich enterprise conferencing will be delivered to all users as a company-wide communications utility," said Frank Zvi, president and CEO, Interwise. "To make conferencing a true utility it must be deployed to all users, not just a few departments. The cost barriers must be lifted and the voice, Web and video components must be integrated and deployed with other key systems, behind the corporate firewall. A hosted model by nature, cannot support full integration with calendaring, ERP, security and administrative systems. The security risks are too great. Only on-premise software can support the full requirements for rolling out to thousands of users for unlimited usage."
Zvi added, "Interwise supplements its premise solution with a hosted global service. We are the only vendor that integrates the two deployment modes for maximum security and cost savings, rapid start up, seamless failover protection and extended global access. We are leading the industry with our pricing, access, performance and integration to unleash conferencing technology from departmental limitations--setting it free and giving it to everyone."
Interwise's award-winning ECP Connect delivers complete, unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing and collaboration across the enterprise, for a fixed price. It provides fully integrated voice conferencing, Web meetings, eLearning classes, Web seminars and broadcasts from a single, IP-based solution with enterprise-class security, reliability and scalability. ECP Connect is a leading choice of Global 2000 companies, with more worldwide deployments of 5,000-plus seats than any other enterprise conferencing solution on the market.
About Interwise
Interwise is the leader in complete Enterprise Conferencing -- unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing in one integrated platform for a fixed price. Interwise's fixed price / unlimited usage business model and enterprise-class technology combine to make it easy for companies to replace multiple conferencing and collaboration products with a single, integrated solution that can reduce overall conferencing expenses by up to 50 per cent. Leading IT industry publications and analyst firms have recognized Interwise for changing the way conferencing is done by replacing unpredictable per-minute and overage charges with a complete solution that can be deployed as broadly and economically as e-mail. Interwise is a privately held company, backed by investors that include Lazard Technology Partners, UBS Capital, GE Capital, JP Morgan, Leeds Weld, and NTT. The company sells to and supports customers globally through a direct sales force, distributors, value-added resellers, communications service providers and network-oriented systems integrators.
Trademarks
Interwise Enterprise Communications Platform, Interwise Expressway and the Interwise logo are trademarks and Interwise is a registered trademark of Interwise. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
According to IDC's report, Worldwide Conferencing Applications Vendor Shares: Putting Web Conferencing to Work, the market for worldwide Web conferencing applications will double in size to reach nearly $1.3 billion in 2009. As this market matures, IDC reports that the most successful conferencing vendors will be able to demonstrate strong ROI, offer pricing and licensing that encourages standardization on their offerings, help customers expand to corporate-wide usage and move users toward integrated voice and web conferencing functionality accessible from the desktop. In the report, IDC rated Interwise first among pure-play conferencing vendors for its ability to integrate with other collaborative applications and infrastructures, and rated Interwise in the top vendors including pure play and infrastructure vendors showing potential for market dominance.
"User firms should look hard at their deployments before continuing their old practices of evaluating and buying conferencing products in silos," said Robert Mahowald, program director, collaborative computing for IDC. "Interwise has invigorated the conferencing market with integrated telephony and web conferencing, combined with a fixed-price license model and architectural capabilities that encourage companies to begin the process of moving conferencing on premise as a corporate-wide desktop utility for live collaboration."
"IDC's report provides a tremendous endorsement for Interwise's position at the forefront of a growing trend where media- and feature-rich enterprise conferencing will be delivered to all users as a company-wide communications utility," said Frank Zvi, president and CEO, Interwise. "To make conferencing a true utility it must be deployed to all users, not just a few departments. The cost barriers must be lifted and the voice, Web and video components must be integrated and deployed with other key systems, behind the corporate firewall. A hosted model by nature, cannot support full integration with calendaring, ERP, security and administrative systems. The security risks are too great. Only on-premise software can support the full requirements for rolling out to thousands of users for unlimited usage."
Zvi added, "Interwise supplements its premise solution with a hosted global service. We are the only vendor that integrates the two deployment modes for maximum security and cost savings, rapid start up, seamless failover protection and extended global access. We are leading the industry with our pricing, access, performance and integration to unleash conferencing technology from departmental limitations--setting it free and giving it to everyone."
Interwise's award-winning ECP Connect delivers complete, unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing and collaboration across the enterprise, for a fixed price. It provides fully integrated voice conferencing, Web meetings, eLearning classes, Web seminars and broadcasts from a single, IP-based solution with enterprise-class security, reliability and scalability. ECP Connect is a leading choice of Global 2000 companies, with more worldwide deployments of 5,000-plus seats than any other enterprise conferencing solution on the market.
About Interwise
Interwise is the leader in complete Enterprise Conferencing -- unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing in one integrated platform for a fixed price. Interwise's fixed price / unlimited usage business model and enterprise-class technology combine to make it easy for companies to replace multiple conferencing and collaboration products with a single, integrated solution that can reduce overall conferencing expenses by up to 50 per cent. Leading IT industry publications and analyst firms have recognized Interwise for changing the way conferencing is done by replacing unpredictable per-minute and overage charges with a complete solution that can be deployed as broadly and economically as e-mail. Interwise is a privately held company, backed by investors that include Lazard Technology Partners, UBS Capital, GE Capital, JP Morgan, Leeds Weld, and NTT. The company sells to and supports customers globally through a direct sales force, distributors, value-added resellers, communications service providers and network-oriented systems integrators.
Trademarks
Interwise Enterprise Communications Platform, Interwise Expressway and the Interwise logo are trademarks and Interwise is a registered trademark of Interwise. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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