Intranets.com Delivers Cost Effective Web and Audio Conferencing Solution
Company expands its online collaboration suite to include on-demand meeting functionality at an affordable price
Woburn, MA (February 23, 2004) - the leading provider of online collaboration services, announced today it has integrated Web and audio conferencing into its online collaboration suite. Available immediately, the new features enable customers to conduct online meetings - including sales presentations, project team meetings, and training seminars - on-demand. The new offering supports the company's mission to help small-to-midsize businesses, workgroups and project teams within large organizations collaborate and communicate in a faster and more efficient way.
"Our new offering delivers a feature set comparable to that of WebEx or Microsoft Live Meeting, but at a fraction of the price," said Rick Faulk, CEO of Intranets.com. "Our chief differentiators are that we integrate conferencing into the intranet suite, we allow any member of the intranet - no matter how many - to organize a conference; and we do it all for one flat monthly fee."
With Intranets.com Conferencing, organizations can easily share applications, files - even their computer's entire desktop - with meeting participants in real-time. The complete solution gives users a set of powerful and intuitive meeting and presentation tools such as slide annotation, live chat, polling, and Q&A features. With its integrated, low-cost audio conferencing, customers can manage conference call features directly from a Web-based control panel. Intranets.com Conferencing adds a new level of possibilities for customers who need a more comprehensive collaboration solution.
"We plan to use the new Web and audio conferencing features to conduct private educational seminars and meetings with patients from across the country," said Melinda Micciola, administrator, The American Infertility Association. "Our organization already uses Intranets.com to exchange ideas, share documents and organize events, among other collaboration activities. The service is priced affordably, easy-to-use and a valuable addition to our collaboration suite."
Intranets.com partnered with Netspoke, a provider of Web and audio conferencing services, to deliver this value added, integrated solution to its customers. The new service is available to users directly from within their Intranets.com collaboration environment.
"We're very excited about this partnership because the integrated suite allows Intranets.com's customers to operate as efficiently as larger global corporations," said Scott D'Entremont, president and CEO of Netspoke. "This announcement gives small and midsize companies a clear collaboration choice for driving success."
Intranets.com's collaboration suite now includes:
- Web and Audio Conferencing - Conduct online meetings and events, share presentations, files and applications. Create a truly collaborative meeting with chat, Q&A, polling and virtual whiteboard features.
- Document Manager - Securely share documents, files and other content with internal employees, remote workers and business partners instantly.
- Online Calendar - Track personal appointments, group meetings and company- wide events.
- Database Manager - Create fully customizable databases or take advantage of existing templates for customer relationship management, sales forecasting and time sheets among many others.
- Task Manager - Track personal action items or delegate tasks to others. Follow the progress of a task from start to finish and view status by owner, project or other user-defined criteria.
- Discussion Forums - Exchange important ideas and information in structured, hierarchical "threads" that make reading and responding easy. Ideal for joint file editing, team projects and brainstorming.
- Additional applications include expense reports, opinion polls, contact directories, announcements, wireless access, and PDA synchronization.
Pricing and Availability
Intranets.com Conferencing is available as a premium service to the company's online collaboration suite at a monthly rate of $99.95 for up to 25 simultaneous participants. The audio conferencing rate is a low 12 cents per minute, with no monthly fee. The company is offering customers who subscribe to the new service before April 30th a credit of 300 free audio minutes applied to their account at sign up. Please refer to http://www.intranets.com/ProductInfo/Pricing/ for complete pricing information.
About Intranets.com Intranets.com is the world's leading provider of on-demand collaboration services for small businesses or departments and groups inside large organizations. The company serves more than 350,000 users across 10,000 companies worldwide and offers a secure, web-based collaboration suite to share critical business information quickly and easily at any time from anywhere. Privately held and profitable, Intranets.com is led by an experienced team of software industry professionals who are committed to providing a secure, customizable, easy-to-deploy intranet solution supported by world-class customer service. Intranets.com is a PC Magazine "Editor's Choice" winner and is rated one of the world's "Top 25" leading service providers by ASPNews. The company has also been ranked by the Boston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing private companies in Massachusetts for two consecutive years. For more information or to take a FREE 30-day test drive, visit http://www.intranets.com/pr, e-mail corpsales@intranets.com or call 888-932-2600 or 781-565-6000.
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