BlueRoads and WebEx Deliver Comprehensive Channel Management Solution; Accelerate Partner Sales and Improve Channel Analytics with One-Click Integration.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- BlueRoads Corporation, a channel management software-as-a-service company, today announced the BlueRoads(TM) Interface for WebEx(TM), an integration of its BlueRoads 5 Suite and WebEx Meeting Center, a web meeting application from WebEx Communications (Nasdaq:WEBX). This integration improves communications and coordination with partners' sales organizations and enables high quality prospect engagements that increase close rates and shorten sales cycles. Partners that do not have a WebEx subscription now have a means to present and meet online with respective customers by leveraging the vendor's WebEx account. Partners can even bring in a vendor's subject matter experts into a session with a single click. This new integration also allows channel managers to run detailed reports to gain complete visibility into their sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. . The combined offerings from these two leading software-as-a-service vendors allow channel partner sales representatives to interact more effectively with prospects, involve subject matter experts easily, and answers questions instantly -- all while reducing support costs, travel requirements and the need for follow-up meetings. The integration leverages the WebEx MediaTone Platform, a standards-based platform for real-time web collaboration, and enables the two applications to work together as one seamless solution. One-click Integration BlueRoads and WebEx have taken care to ensure that the integration of their applications offers unsurpassed ease-of-use. To begin, a vendor administrator selects a user base and product list to enable for WebEx access. This product list is then populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. with supporting content for use within WebEx. Once authorizations have been completed, a partner sales representative can initiate a WebEx meeting with his or her sales prospect by simply clicking on the WebEx icon available within the sales opportunity details presented by the BlueRoads system. This action initiates a web meeting session between the sales representative and the prospect. While the session is established, a manufacturer's subject matter expert can be called in to attend the conference and support the partner. Such conferences can be initiated instantaneously in·stan·ta·ne·ous adj. 1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous. 2. while the salesperson is on the phone with a prospect or scheduled for a particular time. Once the meeting has been completed, the vendor administrator can generate a usage report by channel sales user to see what meetings have been launched and what their outcome was in terms of the conversion of the prospect into a sale. "BlueRoads(TM) Interface for WebEx(TM) represents a great opportunity for both our companies to expand the value we deliver to customers while extending our market reach," said Jeff Schmidt Jeff Schmidt (born in 1968[1]) is an American bassist. In 2005, Schmidt placed first in the Bass Extremes International Contemporary Solo Bass Competition. , vice president of Worldwide Channels. "Companies using WebEx and BlueRoads can now manage their partner networks in an integrated, real-time fashion and coordinate joint sales presentations to accelerate sales and improve pipeline visibility." Axel Axel: see Absalon. Schultze, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BlueRoads, said, "Our WebEx integration gives vendors the ability to more effectively collaborate and actively participate with their partner sales reps to influence sales in an early stage and help shorten the sales cycle for their partners which leads to a measurable increase in partner profitability. It's a real competitive advantage for vendors to be able to insert their Subject Matter Experts directly into the sales cycle in real-time to assist in closing sales when the prospect is the most receptive receptive /re·cep·tive/ (re-cep´tiv) capable of receiving or of responding to a stimulus. ." WebEx provides a suite of on-demand web meeting applications that increase productivity and decrease costs in departments across the enterprise. All WebEx applications are built on the WebEx MediaTone Platform and delivered over the WebEx MediaTone(TM) Network, a global network specifically designed for real-time web communications. This unique technology enables WebEx to guarantee the performance, reliability and security of its services. The BlueRoads(TM) Interface for WebEx(TM) solution will be publicly previewed at the WebEx Experience user conference on May 1-3, in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . About BlueRoads Corporation BlueRoads Corporation provides channel management software-as-a-service, which enables companies to market and sell more effectively through indirect channels. BlueRoads 5 empowers individual partner sales representatives to actively participate in closed-loop sales and marketing processes, enabling companies to increase channel performance and predictability. BlueRoads' impressive customer list includes Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , SurfControl and many more. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. and funded by El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. Ventures and ArrowPath Venture Capital. For more information about how BlueRoads is helping companies create active channels with higher returns visit our website at http://www.blueroads.com or call 650.349.8500. This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements may be identified by use of the terms anticipates, believes, continue, could, estimates, expects, intends, may, plans, potential, predicts, should or will, or the negative of those terms or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those described in such statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties. In particular, these forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to unreleased products or features. Factors which could contribute to risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the failure to release the products or features when scheduled, as described, or at all. A fuller discussion of the risks and uncertainties that could affect WebEx Communications, Inc. are more fully set forth in WebEx Communications, Inc.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including WebEx's Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. filed with the SEC on March 16, 2005. WebEx Communications, Inc. assumes no obligation to update forward-looking information contained in this press release. NOTE: MediaTone is a trademark of WebEx Communications, Inc. |
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