Convenos Meeting Center for AppExchange Helps Spoke Software Improve Sales and Effectiveness of Communication
Convenos Accelerates New User Adoption by Integrating Collaboration and Web Conferencing with Key Industry Platforms
Scotts Valley, Calif., <January 16, 2007> —Convenos, provider of a collaborative web conferencing solution, today announced the successful implementation of Convenos Meeting Center for AppExchange at Spoke Software, dramatically improving user and customer satisfaction. Spoke's sales and services teams are able to easily access Convenos Meeting Center from within Salesforce, conducting online meetings with just a few clicks, easily delivering on-demand slide presentations, interactive demos, and hands-on trainings, with one or more users.
"We wanted a full set of features without having to sacrifice ease-of-use, as well as a solution with a certified salesforce.com integration," said Geoff Herbst, Director, Client Services for Spoke Software, the largest online business-to-business prospect database of its kind. "Now, by using Convenos Meeting Center, our sales and services teams hold more meetings in less time, experience greater interactivity and customer satisfaction, and are much less frustrated with web conferencing. We've also slashed costs by 64%".
Convenos will be participating in today's Apex Day, hosted by salesforce.com at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, and also recently joined the salesforce.com Incubator Program. The AppExchange Incubator / ISV Program is designed to accelerate the success of AppExchange partners by provide companies such as Convenos with application design support, dedicated sales and marketing programs, and the ability to work alongside salesforce.com teams.
Convenos also recently announced the availability of the Convenos Meeting Center Extra for Skype, another product milestone in an established partnership with Skype, the global Internet communications company. "The integration of Convenos Meeting Center and Skype 3.0 follows a natural evolution of business communication toward the use of collaborative technologies to drive business success," said Paul Amery, Director of Skype Developer Program.
"We enabled Convenos Meeting Center via integrations with AppExchange and Skype 3.0 to accelerate our growth within sales and marketing teams in small and medium enterprises, and this has facilitated key customer wins for us, such as Spoke Software," said Thomas Torf, Convenos CEO. "By establishing Convenos Meeting Center in the integrated collaboration space with these partners and customers, we are furthering the reach we have in industries worldwide."
Convenos Meeting Center is an on-demand web conferencing service that delivers collaboration tools in a simple and intuitive interface. Convenos Meeting Center is available to consumers and businesses of all sizes via an affordable and predictable subscription licensing model. Convenos Meeting Center customers who use integrated audio options such as Skype and High Speed Conferencing by Vapps also leverage the benefit of free audio against the traditionally high total cost of ownership basis for other web conferencing solutions.
About Convenos
Convenos is dedicated to delivering online collaboration tools that are simple, convenient, and continue to advance the web-based collaboration and conferencing industries. Convenos Meeting Center is a subscription-based web conferencing solution with an intuitive user interface, easy meeting setup, and no additional minutes-based usage or telephony charges. Convenos has also forged partnerships with companies such as salesforce.com, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Plantronics, PCHome, IPEVO and Vapps, building a network of partners that is helping meet the needs of the rapidly emerging collaboration market. Convenos is managed by a team with domain expertise and proven successes in the high tech arena, and is privately funded. Convenos and the Convenos logo are registered trademarks of Convenos, LLC. All product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
About Convenos Meeting Center
Convenos Meeting Center is an on-demand web conferencing and collaboration solution that is convenient to use and delivers users an uncompromised ability to meet online easily and at an unbeatable value. Convenos Meeting Center provides unique value in bridging multiple VoIP and telephony streams into a single online meeting, which is particularly attractive to organizations with worldwide operations looking to eliminate audio costs. Convenos Meeting Center, available in Standard and Professional editions, is certified for Skype™ and salesforce.com's AppExchange and integrates with Microsoft Outlook® and High Speed Conferencing. A free 14-day trial is available on the website at http://www.convenos.com.
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR CONVENOS:
Karin Vogel, Sr. Director of Marketing
Phone: 1-831-600-1407 or 1-831-325-3122
kvogel@convenos.com
Skype: kvogel4
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