Deutsche Telekom Standardizes on Real-Time Web Collaboration Platform from Centra to Increase Workforce Productivity.

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LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2001

Centra Dominates Collaborative eLearning Market in Worldwide

Telecommunications Industry

Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA) has quickly become the preferred provider of business software solutions for eLearning and real-time collaboration in the worldwide telecommunications market, with a growing customer list of telecom service providers, including AT&T, Bell Canada, Brazil Telecom, Cingular Wireless, France Telecom, MCI Worldcom, Korea Telecom, KPN Netherlands, OTE-Greek Telecom, Portugal Telecom, Sprint, Telia Sweden, Telecom Italia, and Verizon. Today, Centra announced that Deutsche Telekom, Europe's largest telecommunications company, has standardized on its Web collaboration platform to deliver interactive, online training to thousands of internal employees and subsidiaries on new products and services. Currently, Deutsche Telekom is delivering five to six Centra-powered training sessions a day, with plans to expand the number of participants and courses in the near future.

"Deutsche Telekom's leading position in Europe and movement into new global markets must be supported with training and information on-demand, making Centra's infrastructure a `must-have' for large organizations like us," said Willi Elz, head of eLearning-solutions and training platforms for Deutsche Telekom. "It is important that Deutsche Telekom work with a company like Centra, that has demonstrated the strength of its platform through other successful, large-scale deployments, and stays ahead of the competition with the most complete functionality for virtual learning and communication."

Centra has been in use at Deutsche Telekom for more than a year, enabling the company to deliver training to more people than would be possible in a traditional classroom setting. According to Elz, using Centra is faster and more convenient for customers and employees, who can participate in live, interactive training using their desktop PC over dial-up connections. While the quality of training was the main driver in the decision to use Centra, the product's flexibility, ease-of-use, and interactivity has prompted Deutsche Telekom to consider expanding its use of Centra as a communications tool for effective Web meetings and project team collaboration.

Scaleable Software Solutions for eLearning and Collaboration

Used by more than 675 companies, government agencies, and universities worldwide, Centra's scaleable software solutions are based on CentraOne(TM), a comprehensive Web collaboration platform. Leveraging the core capabilities of CentraOne, Centra offers a suite of compatible, real-time Web collaboration products, content creation tools, and knowledge management systems that can be quickly installed on-site using Centra's rapid deployment methodology, or conveniently accessed through Centra's secure, full-service ASP. Centra's products - including interactive Web meetings, virtual classrooms, and large-scale conferences, coupled with an industry-standard learning object repository - ensure universal access through firewalls and proxy servers, and deliver full-performance voice-over-IP audio conferencing, streaming video, application sharing, and dynamic multimedia over low-bandwidth network connections through a standard browser interface.

"The European market is ready for eLearning and real-time collaboration, particularly with growing economic pressures to drive more revenue with fewer resources, at a fraction of the cost" said Lawrence Whittle, Centra's Vice President of Sales Operations for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). "This important customer was secured with our German partner Tertia Edusoft GMBH. With proven local partners such as Tertia and a highly productive and referenceable user base in position across Europe in almost every industry sector, Centra is extremely well positioned to capitalize on this opportunity."

About Centra

Leading the market with an undisputed track record of helping millions of users to increase revenue and improve overall business performance, Centra provides Web collaboration solutions that enable the delivery of information in a variety of live and self-service formats, and add value through unmatched capabilities to capture interactions and content, personalize and manage this information, and instantly re-use it across the enterprise. Today hundreds of global organizations across every industry and market sector choose Centra, including ExxonMobil, Cadbury Schweppes, Citigroup, AT&T, Procter & Gamble, McKesson, Merck, Nationwide Insurance, Sysco, and Stanford University. Centra's products are bolstered by a vital ecosystem of strategic partners, including PwC Consulting, Deloitte Consulting, EDS, KPMG iLS, Microsoft, Siebel, Cisco, and Oracle. Headquartered in Boston's technology corridor, Centra has sales offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.centra.com.

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