ConnectSolutions Inc, a leading provider of enterprise-grade Web conferencing and collaboration solutions, has clocked over 1,000,000,000 Web conferencing and virtual conference call minutes. The highlight of this achievement is the culmination of millions of meetings and webcasts, including several high profile events with President Obama and Secretary Clinton communicating with viewers around the world.

ConnectSolutions offers reliable, scalable, and secure private clouds for government agencies and global corporations, including the U.S. State Department, General Motors, SAS (News - Alert), Charles Schwab, and O'Reilly Media.

In a press release, Michael Fitzpatrick, CEO and co-Founder of ConnectSolutions, said, "A collaboration minute is the measure of time people spend working together online in a virtual meeting, which saves organizations millions of dollars each year in travel expenses, while improving communication between those working remotely in a global economy. This milestone is a testament to the importance of our global collaboration platform to our clients and partners. Our private cloud has become the standard for large business and government communication, and the increasing usage we are experiencing is indicative of the diverse set of uses for this platform."

The company enables global real-time communication via Web conferencing and virtual conference calls between organizations and their employees, customers, and partners. The company offers: Web conferencing and virtual training via private cloud deployments of Adobe Connect; Webcast and broadcast communication via ConnectSolutions Podium; and real-time dashboards and analytics to offer insight into important business metrics.

In a statement, David Coleman, managing director at Collaborative Strategies, said, "ConnectSolutions has followed the first rule of collaboration 'make it easy' or 1-2 clicks to do anything. Enterprise and government organizations making strategic investments in collaboration solutions want their users to have an empowering experience and ConnectSolutions makes that happen every time!"