Macromedia And Premiere Global Services Partner To Deliver Advanced Conferencing Solution
Partnership unifies teleconferencing with live online meetings and events
San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA - May 2, 2005 - Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) and Premiere Global Services (NYSE: PGI) today announced a strategic partnership for a new, integrated teleconferencing service with Macromedia Breeze. This partnership will join together Premiere Global Services' leading business communications services with the leading web conferencing capabilities of Macromedia Breeze 5 (announced today; see separate release) to deliver a unified, high-impact web communications solution for customers worldwide.
For more information or to access a free trial of Breeze 5 and Premiere Global Services audio conferencing, please visit www.macromedia.com/go/premiere.
"A state-of-the-art, integrated teleconferencing service adds yet another rich dimension to Macromedia Breeze 5 for enterprise web conferencing and communication," said Tom Hale, senior vice president and general manager, Macromedia. "We're excited to partner with Premiere Global Services to provide enterprise customers with a high-caliber teleconferencing service for the most effective online communication solution possible."
The partnership between Macromedia and Premiere Global Services provides a powerful service for both companies' customers who are clamoring for audio and rich visual web components. Breeze 5 customers can now control audio and access flexible conference calling directly within the Breeze meeting room interface, while Premiere Global Services clients can tap into powerful, user-friendly web communications to enhance their audio conferences.
"Meetings with both voice and visuals make a greater impact for business users," said Ted Schrafft, president, conferencing and collaboration, Premiere Global Services. "By working together to utilize each other's open technologies, we are able to offer market-leading teleconferencing capabilities integrated with Macromedia Breeze 5. This integrated offering will help customers significantly improve the productivity and efficiency of their enterprise web communications."
Meeting attendees know the pain of distracting background noises while on a conference call. To alleviate this problem, anyone in a Breeze meeting using Premiere Global Services teleconferencing can individually control the volume of each caller or mute as needed. In addition, users can record both audio and web conferencing portions of a Breeze meeting, including synchronized recording of the telephone audio conference. The streaming, unified recording is made available from one easy-to-access URL after the meeting.
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
Integrated teleconferencing for Breeze 5 is available today by visiting www.macromedia.com/go/premiere. Current Breeze customers who select Premiere Global Services as their teleconferencing provider are eligible for specially negotiated rates.
ABOUT MACROMEDIA
Experience matters. Macromedia is motivated by the belief that great experiences build great businesses. Our software empowers millions of business users, developers, and designers to create and deliver effective, compelling, and memorable experiences - on the Internet, on fixed media, on wireless, and on digital devices.
ABOUT PREMIERE GLOBAL SERVICES
Premiere Global Services, Inc. (formerly Ptek Holdings, Inc.) provides business communications services and business process solutions that enable enterprise customers to automate and simplify components of their critical business processes and to communicate more effectively with their constituents.
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