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Telecom Industry is Standardizing on Centra for Real-Time Interaction on the
Web: New Customers, New Deployments Reach
Thousands
Business/Technology Editors
LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2000--Live Internet
collaboration leader Centra (NASDAQ:CTRA) today announced the addition
of several new customers and significant new deployments among
existing customers in the telecommunications industry, bringing the
total number of Centra users in telecom in the thousands. New
agreements with Global One, GTE, Level(3) Communications, Cable and
Wireless and recent expanded rollouts at PSINet, Allegiance Telecom,
Ameritech, Bell Canada, MCI WorldCom, and Mitel signify the widespread
adoption of Centra solutions in this fast-paced sector, where Centra
enables companies to augment their eBusinesses with real-time human
interaction.
"We're in an industry where new products and services are brought
to market in weeks, instead of months, and where customer issues need
to be resolved in minutes, not days" said John Frazier, U.S. Sales
Training Manager at PSINet, the first and largest independent
facilities-based commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP). "Centra
helps us overcome the distance between our product experts and our
globally dispersed salesforce through live collaboration on the Web."
Telecommunications companies have been early adopters of live
eBusiness collaboration solutions from Centra because of rapid changes
in the business landscape in which mergers and acquisitions are now
common, customers are no longer locked into single-service providers
and competition to bring new revenue-generating products and services
to market is intense. Centra provides software infrastructure and a
marketplace for live, business-to-business Internet collaboration,
enabling the development of stronger customer, partner and employee
relationships, collaborative commerce, and corporate learning and
training.
According to Leon Navickas, Centra founder and CEO, "The
telecommunications industry must interact and communicate with new
customers and new employees, as well as with potential competitors and
a host of new partners in totally new ways in order to provide
customers with a single solution and service. This type of extended
supply chain is ideal for live collaboration, which brings much-needed
human interaction and dynamic trade to the eBusiness equation."
Unlike document-based business collaboration products, which
don't offer live interaction, Centra offers a rich collaborative
environment, with integrated voice-over-IP, low-bandwidth
connectivity, the ability to reach outside the organization through
firewalls, and integration with IT platform standards, such as
Microsoft BackOffice. Centra is also unique in supporting many
different types of live collaborative business interactions, from
ad-hoc meetings to structured learning workshops, large-scale Web
presentations and interactive teamwork sessions.
About Centra
Centra (Nasdaq:CTRA) is the leading provider of software
infrastructure and a marketplace for live, business-to-business
collaboration on the Internet. Centra's solutions include Centra 99,
an enterprise-class Web application for high-velocity sales,
marketing, services and eLearning, and the innovative CentraNow
network service - a convenient Web destination for live, voice-enabled
business meetings and events. In addition, Centra is the leading force
behind the industry's first eMarketplace for the exchange of live
collaborative services and business content, known as the Centra
Business Collaboration Network (CentraBCN). Centra's customers include
Fortune 1000 companies such as Armstrong, Domino's, Kraft, Nationwide,
Compaq, Sony, and Viacom. Centra has business and software
partnerships with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Consulting, KPMG,
Microsoft, Oracle, Ariba, and Global Knowledge. Headquartered in
Boston's technology corridor, Centra has sales offices in North
America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit Centra at
www.centra.com.
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CONTACT: Centra Software, Inc.
Ellen P. Slaby, (781) 994-1068
eslaby@centra.com
KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERNET
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