Leading Research Firm Lists Interactive Intelligence in Call Center Industry Report.

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INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2001

Call Center Report Shows Interactive Intelligence

Challenging Traditional Market Leaders

Interactive Intelligence Inc. (Nasdaq:ININ), a global developer of interaction management software, was listed as a visionary in a recently published Call Center Infrastructure Magic Quadrant 2001 report by research and advisory firm, Gartner Inc.

The Call Center Infrastructure Magic Quadrant assesses major call center vendors and places them in one of four quadrants: Leader, Challenger, Visionary or Niche Player. Interactive Intelligence was listed as a visionary in the report, prepared by Gartner's research director, Bern Elliot and analyst, Kathleen Simpson, and available for purchase at http://www.gartner.com. Gartner defines visionary vendors as vendors who have a clear vision of market direction and are focused on preparing for that, but can still improve in terms of optimizing service delivery.

"Traditionally, the ACD has been the central factor in determining a vendor's overall ability to deliver a complete solution," Bern Elliot, research director for Gartner, said. "As can be seen in our magic quadrant, however, this is changing, with computer telephony vendors now competing effectively for the central call center vendor role."

"We hope that our listing in Gartner's call center magic quadrant helps affirm our reputation as a leading call center vendor offering unique software products based on what should now be considered proven technology," Dr. Donald E. Brown, president and chief operating officer for Interactive Intelligence, said. "With a growing customer base already comprised of more than 750 global companies and a product suite that was developed from the start as an open, unified alternative to the architectural kluge of traditional telecom solutions, we are confident that our progress next year will be even more impressive."

Interactive Intelligence first released its interaction management software for contact centers in 1997. Its flagship product, Customer Interaction Center(TM) (CIC), replaces proprietary communication devices such as PBXs, automatic call distributors, interactive voice response systems, voice mail systems, fax servers, Web gateways and CTI middleware systems. CIC's open, unified architecture virtually eliminates the need for integration. Interactive Intelligence designed CIC to reduce start-up and maintenance costs, simplify administration and increase ease of customization.

Interactive Intelligence offers CIC and a host of other interaction management software products through a global network of more than 150 resellers and distributors. Interactive Intelligence also provides a complete professional services organization devoted to fulfilling the unique needs of its partners and customers.

Gartner's permission to quote its Magic Quadrant should not be deemed to be an endorsement of any company or product depicted in the quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is Gartner's opinion and is an analytical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It measures vendors against Gartner-defined criteria for a marketplace. The positioning of vendors within a Magic Quadrant is based on the complex interplay of many factors. Well-informed vendor selection decisions should rely on more than a Magic Quadrant. Gartner research is intended to be one of many information sources and the reader should not rely solely on the Magic Quadrant for decision-making. Gartner expressly disclaims all warranties, express or implied of fitness of this research for a particular purpose.

About Interactive Intelligence Inc.

Interactive Intelligence Inc. (Nasdaq:ININ) is a global developer of interaction management software designed to automate communications for contact centers, enterprises, e-businesses and service providers. The company was founded in 1994 and, today, has a worldwide customer base of more than 750 companies. Based on an open, unified platform, the Interactive Intelligence product line was designed as a flexible and affordable alternative to traditional telecom solutions. The Interactive Intelligence product line is subject to multiple United States and international patents pending. Interactive Intelligence has won numerous awards, including Microsoft's 1998 Fastest Growing Independent Software Vendor's (ISV's) award, Red Herring's Top 100 Technology IPOs of 1999 and Software Magazine's 2000 Top 500 Software and Services companies. Interactive Intelligence's global headquarters are located in Indianapolis, IN, with European headquarters in Aix-en-Provence, France and Asia Pacific headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Its telephone number is +1 317.872.3000; on the Web: http://www.ININ.com.

This release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: rapid technological changes in the industry, volatility in the market price of the company's common stock; the company's ability to achieve profitability, to manage successfully its growth and increasingly complex third party relationships, to maintain successful relationships with its current and any new resellers, to maintain and improve its current products and to develop new products and to protect its proprietary rights adequately; and other factors described in the company's SEC filings, including the company's latest annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.

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