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14 February 2005

Product News

Interwise Joins EMC Documentum ISV Program: Will Provide an Integrated, Unlimited Live Collaboration Solution

Interwise, a supplier of enterprise conferencing, announced that it has joined the EMC Documentum Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Alliance program and will provide ECP Connect for eRoom - a new, unlimited collaboration solution - by integrating the two company's best-of-breed live and asynchronous collaboration products.

The ECP Connect for eRoom solution will provide seamless integration between EMC Documentum eRoom's collaborative workplaces and Interwise ECP Connect's integrated web, video and voice conferencing solution to create a core communication and collaboration utility. This unique solution will extend the value of EMC Documentum eRoom by offering unlimited live and asynchronous collaboration to the extended enterprise for a fixed price, and also will bring the benefits of live ad hoc and scheduled collaboration to Enterprise Content Management solutions via EMC Documentum eRoom Enterprise.

"This relationship is a natural fit that integrates the two industry-leading collaborative solutions into the best complete live and asynchronous solution available today," said Interwise CEO Frank Zvi. "This offers customers two enormous benefits. First, we can drastically reduce the average $200 per employee per year in overall conferencing costs that most medium- and large-sized businesses pay today. Equally important, integrating ECP Connect with EMC Documentum eRoom and EMC Documentum eRoom Enterprise will enable customers to realize significant productivity benefits by communication-enabling key business processes with live voice conferencing, web meetings, eLearning, web seminars and video conferencing across one division or an entire enterprise."

With ECP Connect for eRoom, customers will be able to add live web, video, and voice conferencing functionality to their Documentum eRoom solutions. This means that business solutions in areas such as customer support, new product launches, channel sales acceleration, mergers and acquisition planning and implementation and regulatory requirements implementation can schedule and conduct live or ad hoc web meetings, voice conferences, eLearning sessions, and web casts directly from their eRoom environments. At the same time, ECP Connect for eRoom offers companies the opportunity to dramatically reduce their overall conferencing costs by leveraging advanced VoIP capabilities. ECP Connect for eRoom also supports Documentum eRoom Enterprise, providing customers the benefits of live collaboration integrated with the advanced enterprise content management capabilities of the EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management platform.

"Working with Interwise helps our EMC Documentum eRoom customers extend their team and department use to their entire enterprise, with a fully integrated web, audio and video conferencing solution that dramatically reduces collaboration and conferencing costs by using VoIP," said Barry Ruditsky, vice president, business development, EMC Software.

The ECP Connect for eRoom solution will be available in the second quarter of 2005 through both the EMC Documentum and Interwise organizations.

Interwise has also joined the EMC Application Logo Program, which helps independent software vendors (ISVs) target, design, develop and go-to-market with successful offerings based on the Documentum platform and Documentum eRoom. By teaming with EMC, Interwise is demonstrating its commitment to excellence in content management application design.

Documentum eRoom is a highly flexible collaborative environment that enables people to work closely toward common goals, deliverables, and outcomes - both within the enterprise and beyond. This may include external entities such as partners, suppliers, customers, and clients. These distributed teams need a way to work closely, productively, and creatively. They need to plan, collaborate, strategize, and make decisions as they design and build new products, coordinate their supply and demand chains, engage clients, and work on other key business initiatives.

Documentum eRoom.net provides a subscription-based, hosted eRoom workplace solution in which both departmental teams and large organizations can take advantage of a completely outsourced collaboration solution. For companies seeking collaborative content management capabilities, Documentum eRoom Enterprise offers deep integration with the Documentum Enterprise Content Management platform to address both the content and process requirements of knowledge work. Documentum eRoom Enterprise allows organizations to make their centralized content management infrastructure pervasive throughout their collaboration environments.

Interwise's ECP Connect integrates the worlds of web conferencing, voice conferencing, eLearning, web seminars in a single, integrated, all-IP platform. Available as both a hosted service and on-site software, this platform integrates with a company's existing VoIP infrastructure to accelerate massive cost saving opportunities without requiring expensive upgrades of existing telephone handsets. Interwise's technical strength is complimented by a business model that offers unlimited internal and external conferencing for a single fixed price.

Customers come to Interwise for Enterprise Conferencing when they are looking for more than simple web meetings. Interwise's ECP Connect is an integrated data, video, and voice conferencing solution for delivering real-time multimedia eLearning, collaboration, and communications across the extended enterprise.

Interwise maintains a presence in more than 20 countries through a direct sales force, distributors, value-added resellers and systems integrators. Visit Interwise at http://www.interwise.com .

 

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