WEBDIALOGS BRINGS COST-EFFECTIVE ONLINE MEETING SERVICES TO SMALL TO MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
New Meeting Central Suite Integrates Voice Conferencing with Proven Web Conferencing to Deliver Best Value in the Industry
Billerica, Mass., May 9, 2005 - WebDialogs, Inc., a leading provider of online meeting and communication solutions, today launched WebDialogs Meeting Central™, an integrated web and voice conferencing service for the small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market that is packaged to be the industry's best value. Designed with a comprehensive, easy-to-use feature set necessary for business-to-business online meetings, WebDialogs Meeting Central services are based on the company's proven Web conferencing technology that is resold by several market-leading service providers and OEM partners.
WebDialogs Meeting Central consists of three levels of service with a range of features and pricing plans to accommodate a variety of online meeting needs - including sharing presentations, files, applications and web content. All three levels of service are designed from the perspective of the end-user: no download requirements, the ability to start meetings instantly, all the essential Web conferencing features, and most important - priced at a fraction of the cost of services like WebEx and LiveMeeting.
"To date, using web and voice conferencing together has been cumbersome, expensive and impractical for everyday meetings. As a result, it tends to get used for only important presentations or distance learning sessions," said Lou Guercia, WebDialogs president and CEO. "At WebDialogs, we have designed a service for the enterprise market that redefines conference calls by enabling people to use both voice and the web in a truly integrated fashion. With WebDialogs Meeting Central, business users will now think to use Web conferencing as routinely as they do voice conferencing."
"One of the few remaining obstacles that keeps Web conferencing from becoming as widely used as an everyday business tool is the perceived complexity and cost," said Andy Nilssen, Wainhouse research senior analyst and partner. "With the growth opportunities for web and automated conferencing services in the SME market, WebDialogs is poised for success with their highly-converged web and voice conferencing solution. It has a feature set and price point that is most appropriate for that market."
Ultimate Flexibility in Service and Pricing Plans
WebDialogs Meeting Central integrated web and voice conferencing solutions stand out from many other comparable Web conferencing services because users are able to manage all aspects of an online meeting - including voice participation - directly from a web browser. Participants can be sent an invitation from Microsoft Outlook or dialed out to spontaneously by a moderator from the browser of a web conference in progress. Starting at $.10/minute for integrated web and voice conferencing, WebDialogs Meeting Central enables small- and medium-sized businesses to incorporate Web conferencing into their daily communications without overpaying for unused features.
WebDialogs Meeting Central solutions include:
WebDialogs Express
A prepaid, self-service integrated web and voice conferencing solution, WebDialogs Express delivers all the features needed for a successful online meeting. Featuring a credit card auto-renewal process, WebDialogs Express is a cost-effective service for independent users seeking an everyday conferencing solution.WebDialogs Executive
WebDialogs Executive is an integrated web and voice conferencing service with all the features and functionality necessary for a successful online meeting such as: presentation, document and application sharing, polling, chat, audio dial out, record and archive.WebDialogs Enterprise
For enterprises that are satisfied with their current voice conferencing service provider and want to either add a new Web conferencing solution or replace an existing one, WebDialogs Meeting Central offers WebDialogs Enterprise. This solution has all of the Web conferencing features of WebDialogs Executive to complement an organization's existing voice conferencing solution, and is available in a variety of pricing plans, including per minute, per seat or by subscription.
"We have considered using Web conferencing for some time for both internal meetings like our luncheon update meetings and for client meetings," said Fred Shen, president of Shen Milsom and Wilke, a New York-based communications technology and acoustics consulting firm. "But when looking at our options we found many solutions that were difficult to use, costly and really had more features than we needed. We found WebDialogs Meeting Central to be a cost effective solution that has the exact features we need to conduct productive interoffice meetings as well as give us a professional tool we can use when communicating with our clients."
About WebDialogs
WebDialogs, Inc., based in Billerica, Mass., is a leading provider of online meeting and communication solutions, which increase the productivity, effectiveness and quality of online interactions. WebDialogs delivers its practical and affordable Web conferencing and communication solutions to enterprises, service providers, application vendors and communication equipment providers. Effective, easy-to-use and quick to implement, WebDialogs solutions enable low-cost, high-value interactions online in an instant. For more information, visit www.webdialogs.com.
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WebDialogs Meeting Central is a trademark of WebDialogs, Inc. All other names and trademarks referenced herein are the properties of their respective owners.
