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  • Ricardo Kroezen
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    IWConferencing(Interwise) Positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing
    Magic Quadrant States that More Organizations are Providing Web Conferencing to All Employees, Alongside IM and eMail

    IWConferencing(Interwise) Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of Web Conferencing Magic Quadrant 2007

    CAMBRIDGE MA, VLAARDINGEN– May 15, 2007– IWConferencing (Interwise®), the global leader in unlimited voice, web and video conferencing for the enterprise, today announced that it has been positioned in the “Visionaries” quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing, 2007. According to Gartner, “We evaluated the completeness of vision by looking at how the products align with how users want to use and buy them. To evaluate vendors' marketing and product strategies, we looked at how they position their products and whether the products adequately address the chosen positioning. Flexibility to support SaaS and on-premise deployment was rated higher than a strategy of concentrating on one model only. We also evaluated vendors' product innovation and ability to address trends we expect to see in the Web conferencing market.”

    The Magic Quadrant report states that organizations “are increasingly positioning Web conferencing functionality as another form of collaboration alongside instant messaging (IM) and e-mail, open to all employees, rather than something needing special justification and provisioning.” It also says “about 70% to 80% of Web conferences are run on SaaS deployments. We expect this percentage to drop in favor of more on-premise deployments, driven primarily by security and cost concerns, although the SaaS model will remain dominant for some time.”

    “Making conferencing as accessible, reliable and affordable as email, is our core mission. We are pleased to see our approach evaluated, including offering hybrid forms of deployment so customers can receive the benefits of both premise and SaaS,” said Ricardo Kroezen, director BeNelux of IWConferencing BeNeLux.

    “To give conferencing to all employees, conferencing needs to meet enterprise IT and telephony requirements,” Kroezen continued. “To achieve business value, conferencing must support business process acceleration, provide meeting intelligence and meet ease-of-use requirements for both users and administrators. We are pioneering these areas with our partners and customers, building the technology and best practices that can support the smallest to the largest environments.”

    Interwise Connect provides voice, Web and video conferencing within a single application for unlimited audio conferences, Web meetings, virtual classes, Webcasts, broadcasts and on-demand recordings. Deployed as a core business application to all employees, it improves the frequency, speed and quality of both internal and external business activities. Interwise Connect integrates with existing enterprise IT and PBX systems, email/calendaring, IM and softphone applications. It allows customers to achieve the cost benefits of VoIP conferencing securely, without having to engage in PBX and phone overhauls.

    Interwise Connect is a leading choice of Global 2,000 companies, with more worldwide deployments of 5,000-plus seats than any other enterprise conferencing solution on the market.

    The Gartner research note is available from Gartner at http://www.gartner.com. The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the Visionary quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.




    About IWConferencing
    IWConferencing an Interwise Company is the leader in delivering unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing for the enterprise. IWConferencing’s fixed price / unlimited usage business model and enterprise-class technology combine to make it easy for companies to deliver conferencing and collaboration as a core business application, replacing multiple products with a single, integrated solution that can reduce overall conferencing expenses by 50 per cent or more. More importantly, our unique capabilities drive innovation, corporate agility and operational effectiveness by enabling customers to give unlimited conferencing and collaboration to every employee in the enterprise, like email. IWConferencing sells to and supports customers globally through a direct sales force, distributors, value-added resellers, communications service providers, and network-oriented systems integrators.


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    Interwise Connect, Interwise Expressway and the Interwise logo are trademarks and Interwise is a registered trademark of Interwise, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
    • 15 May 2007, 06:16 am