ViewCentral and Centra Announce Tighter Integration, Customer Deployment
12 May 2004 - 10:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
ViewCentral and Centra Announce Tighter Integration, Customer
Deployment Peregrine Systems(R) Among the First to Leverage
ViewCentral Replay Application with Centra Collaboration Solution
for Customer Acquisition BOSTON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewCentral
Inc., the leader in Collaboration Management Solutions, and Centra
, a leading provider of specialized application software and
services for online business collaboration, announced today at the
Centra Summit 2004 worldwide user conference an expanded
relationship that includes tighter integration of their respective
solutions. According to the companies, the recently launched
ViewCentral Replay application is now integrated for use with
Centra's solution for Customer Acquisition. ViewCentral vConference
and vClassroom solutions for managing live online events have
already been integrated with Centra. A demonstration of the
ViewCentral Replay - Centra solution can be seen at the Westin
Copley Place Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, May 11 - 14, in a
kiosk in Centra's Solution area. Centra for Customer Acquisition
addresses every aspect of educating prospects and acquiring new
customers. Centra's reliable and effective customer acquisition
solution automates high touch events, extends marketing messages to
prospective buyers and captures sales leads. This solution delivers
Webinars and eConferences, facilitates online product launches,
announcements and demos, and broadcasts communications events and
cost- effective online user conferences. Web conferencing is among
the fastest-growing technology markets, with revenue from the sale
of these products forecasted to reach $1.5 billion in 2008,
according to industry research firm IDC. Through the integration
announced today, ViewCentral and Centra are seeking to help
customers maximize the value of these investments. By way of this
integration, customers can leverage ViewCentral Replay to re-use
content captured in Web conferences enabled by Centra. ViewCentral
Replay provides registration, payment and attendance tracking
capabilities for recorded Web conferences. The combination of these
solutions will allow customers to extend the value of their online
events, while also creating a potentially new revenue stream. The
integrated ViewCentral Replay - Centra solution is expected to be
particularly well received by Sales and Marketing departments,
where online conferences and events are becoming increasingly
popular. ViewCentral and Centra solutions already have a firmly
established presence in corporate training departments. Peregrine
Systems, Inc., a leading provider of asset and service management
solutions based in San Diego, is one of the first companies to
deploy the ViewCentral Replay - Centra solution. Peregrine plans to
use ViewCentral Replay to re-market content from online training
events enabled by Centra. "We expect registrations for training
events to increase significantly this year due to the use of
ViewCentral Replay with Centra," said Kirk Herrick, Education
Services Manager at Peregrine Systems. "The 24/7 availability of
recorded event content will allow our global customers and partners
to sign-up, pay for and view training materials around-the-clock.
"We've also found that ViewCentral Replay and Centra can help us to
improve employee productivity. Because registration and attendance
for recorded events is all self-service at the hands of customers
and partners, our staff is freed from the otherwise manual task of
capturing student information and administering access to the
content," concluded Herrick. "ViewCentral and Centra are benefiting
from a significant transition in the conferencing industry from
in-person meetings to Web-based events," said Paul Gudonis,
President and CEO of Centra. "We like ViewCentral applications
because they help customers to utilize our services more
efficiently. The addition of ViewCentral Replay to this mix
provides customers with an extraordinarily powerful way to leverage
Centra's solution for Customer Acquisition." "Centra and
ViewCentral share a common goal: To make Web conferencing and the
management of related activities, easy and cost-effective," said
Rick Ludlow, President and CEO of ViewCentral. "The tremendous
growth of the Web conferencing market, led by industry leaders like
Centra, has been a boon to ViewCentral business. If projections for
the Web conferencing market into 2008 are accurate, we believe the
Collaboration Management Solutions category, in which ViewCentral
is the leader, will experience similar growth." About Centra Online
business collaboration solutions from Centra create workforce
efficiencies and enable organizations to share and exchange
business-critical information with geographically distributed
customers, partners, prospects and employees. Centra's solutions
integrate real-time collaboration and departmental business
processes with specialized applications that increase sales
effectiveness, improve collaborative learning and accelerate
enterprise application rollouts and customer acquisition
initiatives. Currently available in 12 languages, Centra solutions
can be deployed as on-site software or through its ASP service and
are supported by an active ecosystem of value- added partners,
including Siebel, PeopleSoft, SAP and Deloitte Consulting.
Organizations across every major industry and market sector choose
Centra, including Wyndham International, Weyerhaeuser, Underwriters
Laboratories, BMW and Stanford University. Headquartered in
Lexington, Massachusetts, Centra serves a worldwide customer base
throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. For more
information, visit http://www.centra.com/. About ViewCentral
ViewCentral Inc. is the leading provider of Collaboration
Management Solutions (CMS) that are empowering companies to
effectively and efficiently communicate with their customers,
partners and employees. ViewCentral enables industry-leading
customers to schedule, automate payment and manage global events,
conferences, and training. Using ViewCentral, world-class companies
such as Amdocs, Autodesk, E*TRADE, Network Associates, EPRI,
Peregrine Systems, Plumtree Software, Xerox, and webMethods
significantly reduce the resources needed to train and communicate
with customers, partners, suppliers, prospects and employees. With
Web conferencing, technology and e-learning partners WebEx,
Microsoft Office Live Meeting (formerly PlaceWare), Raindance, MCI,
Centra, Interwise, Digitalthink, Questionmark, Brainshark,
VeriSign, CyberSource and WorldPay, ViewCentral provides end-to-end
conferencing and training solutions. Privately held, ViewCentral
investors include Novus Ventures, Aspen Ventures and Artemis
Ventures. For more information call (650) 934-8300 or visit
http://www.viewcentral.com/. Centra is a registered trademark of
Centra Software, Inc. All other trademarks referenced herein are
the property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: ViewCentral
Inc. CONTACT: Sharon Dratch of Centra Software, +1-781-994-1151 or
; Kevin Wolf, +1-650-654-2856, for ViewCentral; or Rosie Hausler of
ViewCentral, +1-650-934-8340 or Web site:
http://www.viewcentral.com/
Copyright
Centra (NASDAQ:CTRA)
Historical Stock Chart
From Sep 2024 to Oct 2024
Centra (NASDAQ:CTRA)
Historical Stock Chart
From Oct 2023 to Oct 2024