ActiveTouch, the Creator of WebEx, and Epicentric Announce Partnership to Meeting-Enable Vertical and Enterprise Portal Solution.SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 1999-- Epicentric to Resell WebEx Meeting Center Services to Vertical and Enterprise Portal Customers It is now possible to add live Web-based collaboration and virtual office functionality to your business' Web site. ActiveTouch, the creator of WebEx, the most popular meeting service on the Web, announced today that it has partnered with Epicentric, the leading provider of software for vertical and enterprise portals. Through the agreement, Epicentric's customers will be able to purchase WebEx Meeting Center's Virtual Office See virtual company. Services to meeting-enable their intranets and extranets. This partnership gives Epicentric customers a one-stop shop for creating complete front office solutions. "Our customers were looking for an outsourced application that lets users communicate in real-time through the Web," said Ed Anuff, president of Epicentric. "WebEx has the unique ability to blend advanced application, desktop and document sharing with integrated voice and video and deliver it all through a standard browser." "By pulling together leading edge technologies, Epicentric is able to offer its customers the ultimate vertical portal A vertical-market Web site that provides information and services to a particular industry. It is the industry-specific equivalent of the general-purpose portal on the Web. See portal, corporate portal, business intelligence portal and Web hub. solution," stated Subrah Iyar, CEO of ActiveTouch. "Through our relationship with Epicentric we are able to extend the reach of WebEx by offering our Virtual Offices Services as part of their complete front office solution." About Epicentric Founded in November 1997, Epicentric is the leading provider of software and services that enable companies to build enterprise and vertical portals. Epicentric's Portal Server enables businesses to have complete ownership of their portal solution from a hosting, branding and design perspective. Epicentric's Portal Server aggregates and integrates the widest range of services, applications, content and commerce offerings to provide a full-service, centralized starting point for employees, customers and partners. For additional information about Epicentric, visit the company on the World Wide Web at http://www.epicentric.com or contact the company by phone at 415/974-0280. About ActiveTouch Founded in 1996, ActiveTouch Inc. is the leading provider of outsourced Web-based collaboration services. ActiveTouch develops and markets WebEx.com and WebEx Meeting Center. WebEx.com, the world's most popular Web-based meeting service, requires no pre-installed software or network configuration, just a browser and a telephone. WebEx Meeting Center is a customizable full-service version of WebEx.com available to businesses on a subscription basis. ActiveTouch is leading the drive to seamlessly deliver data, voice and video communications over the Web. Please call 408/980-5200 or visit http://activetouch.com, or http://webex.com for more information. Editors should contact Colin Smith at Antenna Group 415/977-1912 or colin@antennapr.com. Note to Editors: Epicentric, the Epicentric Portal Server, the Epicentric Portal Network and the Epicentric logo are trademarks of Epicentric, Inc. WebEx is a trademark of Active Touch, Inc. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion