Mapfre America Selects Interwise for Live Enterprise Collaboration and Conferencing; Onsite Solution Augments EMC Documentum eRoom for Insurance Group.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & LONDON -- Interwise(R) Inc., a global leader in enterprise conferencing solutions, today announced that Mapfre America has rolled out Interwise ECP (Enhanced Capabilities Port) See IEEE 1284. 1. ECP - Engineering Change Proposal. 2. ECP - Enhanced Capabilities Port. 3. ECP - Extended Capabilities Port. 4. ECP - Extended Concurrent Prolog. Connect(R), a complete, integrated voice, Web and video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. solution. Mapfre America, a subsidiary of Sistema Mapfre, will use ECP Connect to facilitate live collaboration between its offices in the Americas region and the company's main headquarters in Madrid. Sistema Mapfre is the leading insurance group for the Spanish market. Mapfre America provides direct insurance to the Americas region and employs more than 7,000 employees in eleven countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador El Salvador (ĕl sälväthōr`), officially Republic of El Salvador, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,705,000), 8,260 sq mi (21,393 sq km), Central America. , Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. , United States, Republica Dominicana, Uruguay and Venezuela. A key benefit for Mapfre America in selecting Interwise was ECP Connect's new integration with EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. Documentum eRoom, a Web-based collaborative workspace. The integration allows Mapfre America to extend its enterprise content management capabilities with integrated, live collaboration, encompassing unlimited live voice, web and video conferencing. Mapfre has deployed ECP Connect for eRoom onsite within Mapfre America and is planning to expand usage and scale throughout the group in the near future. "Interwise's live collaboration will improve productivity and foster stronger communications and decision making between our teams. The integration with eRoom makes the deployment of Interwise's collaboration solution as straightforward as email," said Andres de la Poza Freire, Coordinador de Soluciones Verticales y de Colaboracion para Mapfre America. Interwise's award-winning ECP Connect delivers complete, unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing and collaboration across the enterprise, for a fixed price. It provides fully integrated voice conferencing, Web meetings, eLearning classes, Web seminars and broadcasts from a single, IP-based solution with enterprise-class security, reliability and scalability. ECP Connect is a leading choice of Global 2000 companies, with more worldwide deployments of 5,000-plus seats than any other enterprise conferencing solution on the market. About Mapfre Sistema Mapfre is an independent financial services group headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It develops insurance products including underwriting, finance and real estate services for the Spanish market as well as 39 other countries worldwide. Sistema Mapfre employs 20,000 employees and has an expected turnover of EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 12 billion for 2005. Mapfre America, a subsidiary of Sistema Mapfre, is responsible for its direct insurance activities in the American Continent, with a presence in 13 countries, accounts for 7,000 staff and an expected turnover of EUR 2 billion for 2005. About Interwise Interwise is the leader in complete Enterprise Conferencing -- unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing in one integrated platform for a fixed price. Interwise's fixed price / unlimited usage business model and enterprise-class technology combine to make it easy for companies to replace multiple conferencing and collaboration products with a single, integrated solution that can reduce overall conferencing expenses by up to 50 per cent. Leading IT industry publications and analyst firms have recognised Interwise for changing the way conferencing is done by replacing unpredictable per-minute and overage Overage Apples mainly to convertible securities. Difference between how much common stock one party must sell and the other wishes to buy for the same amount of convertible in a swap. charges with a complete solution that can be deployed as broadly and economically as e-mail. Interwise is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with major offices in Cambridge, MA USA (Global headquarters), London, UK (EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. headquarters). Interwise investors include JP Morgan, Leeds Weld, Lazard Technology Partners, GE Capital, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform and UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System Capital. The company sells to and supports customers globally through a direct sales force, distributors, value-added resellers, communications service providers and network-oriented systems integrators. Trademarks Interwise Enterprise Communications Platform, Interwise Expressway and the Interwise logo are trademarks and Interwise is a registered trademark of Interwise. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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