ATLANTA, March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- PGi (NYSE:
PGI), the world's largest pure-play provider of collaboration
software and services, today announced that its Modality Systems
subsidiary was named an elite launch partner for Microsoft® Skype
for Business. Elite launch partners have the highest level of
experience, training and commitment to the Skype for Business
platform and are able to deliver on a global scale.
"The Modality team is thrilled to receive this honor, and we're
excited to work alongside Microsoft to deliver the value of Skype
for Business to enterprises around the world," said John Lamb, PGi general manager and Modality
Systems co-founder. "Since our founding in 2007, Modality's sole
focus has been on helping enterprises successfully navigate the
entire UC journey, from developing a custom UC strategy to boosting
end-user adoption and providing end-to-end support. Our goal is to
help customers maximize the value of their Microsoft UC investments
by enabling them to create more productive ways of working, improve
business processes, reduce costs and accelerate business
transformation."
Skype for Business brings together the familiar experience of
Skype with the security, compliance and control of Lync®. Skype for
Business will transform the way people communicate by extending
communications beyond the walls of businesses to reach customers
and partners, anytime, anywhere. Elite launch partners are prepared
to assist enterprises:
- Address any or all aspects of planning, deployment, operations
and adoption lifecycle.
- Optimize hybrid cloud deployments with Microsoft Office 365 and
Server-based environments.
- Develop an end-to-end solution with other devices, applications
and infrastructure.
"As a Skype for Business launch partner, Modality has
demonstrated the highest level of experience, training and
commitment to the Skype for Business platform and is able to
deliver on a global scale," said Giovanni
Mezgec, Microsoft GM of Skype for Business.
Modality Systems is the world's largest dedicated Microsoft
Skype for Business services and software firm, with over 50 Lync
certified professionals, including six Lync Most Valuable
Professionals (MVPs) and three certified Lync Masters; their collective expertise helped
the practice earn the prestigious status of finalist for
Communications Partner of the Year in the 2014 Microsoft Partner of
the Year awards. Modality has developed a suite of proprietary
software applications and add-ons designed to extend the value of
Lync and Skype for Business environments, enhancing business
processes across an organization and facilitating increased
productivity for users.
To learn more about Modality and Skype for Business, please
visit us at modalitysystems.com or drop by booth #2020 at
Enterprise Connect this week.
Microsoft, Skype for Business and Lync are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries.
About Premiere Global Services, Inc. │ PGi
PGi is the
world's largest pure-play provider of collaboration software and
services. PGi's unified collaboration platform empowers business
users and teams to connect, share ideas and manage projects with
the simplicity and everywhere-access of the latest cloud
technologies. PGi has a global presence in 25 countries, and its
award-winning solutions provide a collaborative advantage to nearly
50,000 enterprise customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100™. In
the last five years, PGi has helped over a billion people worldwide
connect, collaborate and get work done—in teams, large groups and
one-on-one. 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.
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