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Interwise Announces Agreement with Schering-Plough To Deploy Interwise Connect as its IP Conferencing Standard to Employees WorldwideCAMBRIDGE, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- June 13, 2006 -- Scalability for Rapid Worldwide Deployment Without A Large Infrastructure Investment Was a Key Objective of the Project Interwise Inc., the global leader in unlimited voice, web and video conferencing for the enterprise, today announced that Schering-Plough, a global science-based health care company, has chosen Interwise as its corporate IP conferencing standard for employees worldwide. Schering-Plough provides leading prescription, consumer and animal health products in more than 120 countries. To support company-wide internal and external collaboration, Schering-Plough sought a web-based conferencing and collaboration product that could scale to perform reliably and economically for all users, at all times, throughout the world. A key objective was to obtain a solution that could be deployed rapidly without requiring a large infrastructure investment. Schering-Plough has made Interwise Connect available to its employees for unlimited web meetings, virtual classrooms, Webcasts, and company meetings. As part of the company's commitment to excellence when deploying core business tools, Schering-Plough launched Interwise Connect to employees with an internal campaign aimed at communicating the product's major business benefits. When Interwise Connect is deployed as a core tool to every employee, it can enhance everyday business processes, unify team activities and reduce the need to travel. "We are very pleased to have won this milestone relationship with Schering-Plough," said John Donnelly, vice president of Americas sales and business development for Interwise. "More and more, companies such as Schering-Plough are embracing Interwise' vision of transforming conferencing into an enterprise-wide business application can be deployed for usage without limitations--like email. Our breadth of functionality, enterprise-class technology and fixed price / unlimited usage license model are setting standards that no other conferencing vendor today can meet." Interwise Connect integrates voice, Web and video conferencing within a single application for unlimited audio conferences, Web meetings, virtual classes, Webcasts, broadcasts and on-demand recordings. Deployed as a core business application to all employees, it improves the frequency, speed and quality of both internal and external business activities. It delivers strong cost and business ROI to companies with distributed and mobile workforces, customers and supply chains. Interwise 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 Interwise Interwise is the leader in delivering unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing for the enterprise. Interwise' fixed price / unlimited usage business model and enterprise-class technology combine to make it easy for companies to deliver conferencing and collaboration as a core business application, replacing multiple products with a single, integrated solution that can reduce overall conferencing expenses by 50 per cent or more. More importantly, our unique capabilities drive innovation, corporate agility and operational effectiveness by enabling customers to give unlimited conferencing and collaboration to every employee in the enterprise, like email. Interwise 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 Connect, Interwise Expressway and the Interwise logo are trademarks and Interwise is a registered trademark of Interwise, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
