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Blue Pumpkin Software Receives Prestigious 2000 Frost & Sullivan Market Engineering Competitive Strategy Award.


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Award Recognizes Blue Pumpkin's Product Excellence and Superior

Marketing Strategy

Frost & Sullivan announces Blue Pumpkin Software, a leader in workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space.  solutions for customer contact centers, has received the 2000 Market Engineering Competitive Strategy Award for excellence in marketing its PrimeTime suite of workforce optimization software Free and Open Source software
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Frost & Sullivan presents the Competitive Strategy Award each year to the company that demonstrates industry-leading marketing practices by increasing its market presence through a successful and unique competitive strategy.

"Blue Pumpkin continually develops easy-to-use and easy to deploy products that anticipate market needs and allow companies to immediately realize a significant return on investment," said Doron Aspitz, chief executive officer, Blue Pumpkin Software. "Combining our product excellence with a customer-centric marketing strategy allows us to set the pace for the industry. The Frost & Sullivan honor is further recognition of Blue Pumpkin's market leadership."

Blue Pumpkin Software was honored with the award based upon recent strategic analysis conducted by Frost & Sullivan in the workforce management software market. The analysis reveals Blue Pumpkin strengthened its reputation as a premier workforce optimization provider by delivering easy-to-deploy products that meet the needs of the marketplace and by effectively communicating the benefits.

Blue Pumpkin's product family is setting the market standard by combining outstanding functionality with ease-of-use. Blue Pumpkin has been widely praised for its intuitive user interface, prompting other vendors in the market to focus efforts on the ease of use of their solutions.

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"Blue Pumpkin has taken the lead by providing a solution that simplifies the customization and installation processes," says Frost & Sullivan industry analyst Katrina Howell. "The Prime Time products have opened the Workforce Management market to organizations that otherwise would have delayed buying Workforce management software due to lengthy interruptions in contact center workflow."

About Blue Pumpkin Software

Blue Pumpkin Software is the market leader in workforce management solutions designed to help customer contact centers leverage their skilled resources to provide excellent customer service. Blue Pumpkin provides the tools necessary to efficiently schedule and manage contact center personnel, ensuring that the right person with the right skills handles customer interactions. These solutions help maximize the human potential to guarantee superior customer service across a variety of contact channels, including Web, phone and email. With a family of flexible applications integrated with leading contact center technology partners, Blue Pumpkin gives contact centers the freedom to choose how to run their businesses.

Blue Pumpkin Software is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices around the world. Blue Pumpkin's customers span a number of industries and include ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing.

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, KitchenAid, TimeWarner Cable and Verio. For more information about Blue Pumpkin and its products, please visit www.blue-pumpkin.com.

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, a global leader in international strategic market consulting and training, presents Market Engineering Awards to companies that demonstrate the diligence, perseverance and dedication required to develop a successful business plan and excel in the increasingly competitive global marketplace. Frost & Sullivan rigorously analyzes specific criteria to determine Market Engineering Award recipients in a variety of regional and global market landscapes. Founded in 1961, Frost & Sullivan is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. with offices located worldwide: New York New York, state, United States
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, San Antonio, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur. For further information, visit www.frost.com.

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