ATLANTA, Aug. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- PGi (NYSE:
PGi), a global leader in collaboration and software services for
over 20 years, and Thinking Phone Networks (TPN), the innovative
leader in unified communications as a service (UCaaS), today
announced a strategic alliance that will integrate PGi's
award-winning iMeet web conferencing software with the TPN cloud
platform—the first time a third-party collaboration application has
been hosted in TPN's industry-leading ThinkingSuite solution.
"Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is changing the way
enterprises collaborate, and we strongly believe that integrating
PGi's iMeet into our UCaaS platform will provide unprecedented
value for our clients," said Alex
DiNunzio, Thinking Phone Networks' Senior Product Manager.
"Today's businesses are searching for technologies that can replace
their onsite collaboration solutions with cloud-based,
full-featured applications that empower productivity and growth
anywhere, anytime, on any device."
"We are excited to work alongside an innovative partner like TPN
to bring a collaborative advantage to more companies worldwide, and
I am thrilled that we can help TPN round out its UCaaS portfolio,"
said Ralph Hawkins, SVP of PGi
Partner Channel. "By joining forces with TPN, PGi aligns with
another cloud innovator to advance the future of business
collaboration. iMeet's innovative collaboration software and TPN's
UCaaS leadership combine to deliver a powerful solution to an
entirely new audience of business users who need simple, personal
and mobile collaboration solutions to expand their reach and drive
their businesses forward."
Thinking Phone Networks, twice named a Gartner, Inc. Magic
Quadrant "Leader" and a leading cloud service provider by
Infonetics Research, assists midmarket and larger enterprises in
deploying cloud UC services quickly, easily and cost effectively.
TPN's award-winning ThinkingSuite solution combines powerful
mobility-enabled and analytics-driven communications services with
third-party application integration on an open architected
platform.
PGi's award-winning Partner Channel program is dedicated to the
individual sales strategies and success of its partners
worldwide. PGi Partner Channel is the global leader in
conferencing and collaboration partnerships, with a global team of
experienced channel managers, sales and marketing professionals. To
learn more, visit PGi Partner Channel at
pgi.com/solutions/partners.
About Premiere Global Services, Inc. │ PGi
PGi has been a leading global provider of collaboration software
and services for over 20 years. PGi's cloud-based software
applications let business users connect, collaborate and share
ideas and information from their desktop, tablet or smartphone,
enabling greater productivity in the office or on the go. PGi has a
global presence in 25 countries, and its
award-winning solutions provide a collaborative advantage to
over 45,000 enterprise customers, including 75% of the Fortune
100™. In the last five years, PGi has hosted more than 1.1
billion people from 137 countries in over 250 million virtual
meetings. For more information, visit PGi at pgi.com.
Statements made in this press release, other than those
concerning historical information, should be considered
forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties,
many of which are beyond our control. Such forward-looking
statements are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based
on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as
assumptions made by, and information currently available to,
management. A variety of factors could cause actual results to
differ materially from those anticipated in PGi's forward-looking
statements, including, but not limited to, the following factors:
competitive pressures, including pricing pressures; technological
changes and the development of alternatives to our services; market
acceptance of PGi's SaaS products, including iMeet® and
GlobalMeet®; our ability to attract new customers and to
retain and further penetrate our existing customers; our ability to
establish and maintain strategic reseller and distribution
relationships; risks associated with challenging global economic
conditions; price increases from our telecommunications service
providers; service interruptions and network downtime, including
undetected errors or defects in our software; technological
obsolescence and our ability to upgrade our equipment or increase
our network capacity; concerns regarding the security and privacy
of our customers' confidential information; future write-downs of
goodwill or other intangible assets; greater than anticipated tax
and regulatory liabilities; restructuring and cost reduction
initiatives and the market reaction thereto; our level of
indebtedness; risks associated with acquisitions and divestitures;
indemnification claims from the sale of our PGiSend business; our
ability to protect our intellectual property rights, including
possible adverse results of litigation or infringement claims;
regulatory or legislative changes, including further government
regulations applicable to traditional telecommunications service
providers and data privacy; risks associated with international
operations and market expansion, including fluctuations in foreign
currency exchange rates; and other factors described from time to
time in our press releases, reports and other filings made with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to
the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2013. All
forward-looking statements attributable to us or a person acting on
our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this
cautionary statement. We do not undertake any obligation to update
or to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements
contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances
occurring after the date of this press release or the date of the
statement, if a different date, or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
Media Contact:
Blakely Thomas-Aguilar
404-262-8429
blakely.thomas-aguilar@pgi.com
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