Convenos Meeting Center and Skype Give Voice to Online Meetings

Convenos Meeting Center and Skype Give Voice to Online Meetings

February 14, 2006

Convenos Meeting Center Is Skype Certified!

    SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 14 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Convenos, provider of online meeting and collaboration
services, today announced that Convenos Meeting Center, a
Web conferencing and collaboration solution, is Skype(TM)
certified.  Convenos Meeting Center integrates meeting
workspaces and Skype calls, making online collaboration
truly cost effective and convenient.  Convenos Meeting
Center is available for 14-day trial or purchase from the
Convenos Web site at: http://www.convenos.com/trynow.html
.

    "Today's businesses are global in nature and
require solutions that are convenient and cost effective to
boost productivity and process improvements," says
Thomas Torf, CEO of Convenos. "At Convenos, we are
designing products to meet the demand for real-time
collaboration solutions which clearly target process and
productivity improvements, as well as cost reductions.  By
integrating Skype, Convenos Meeting Center enables groups
of employees, customers, partners, and/or suppliers to
collaborate and communicate more effectively at a fraction
of the cost of other web conferencing tools." 

    The Yankee Group has also found that
software-as-a-service is gaining ground in the business
applications market, as more than 60% of SMBs attribute
"lower expense rates" and "increases in
productivity" as driving factors for adopting
software-as-a-service.

    Convenos Meeting Center offers subscription-based,
flat-fee pricing and ease-of-use, combines the cost-saving
advantages of Skype and a full set of industry-standard
features, and is designed to ensure customers unprecedented
value. With Convenos' flat-fee subscription hosts and
attendees can meet as often and as long as they want,
without incurring any additional meeting or telephone
costs. 

    Advantages of Convenos Meeting Center include:

    -- Unlimited online meetings hosted on Convenos
servers

    -- Integrated Internet calling with no additional
per-minute charges 

    -- Industry-standard document, presentation, and
application sharing 

    -- Convenient meeting and attendee management from a
secure, personalized  
       web page 

    -- Value-add tools such as chat, whiteboard, notes, and
on-demand polling

    -- A range of meeting types, from instant meetings to
presence-aware        
       virtual workspaces 

    -- Archival meeting details with persistent storage of
shared meeting        
       content 

    -- Flat-fee pricing and absolutely no additional
per-minute telephone        
       charges

    Pricing and Availability 

    Convenos Meeting Center is currently available for
trial registrants and purchase from the Convenos website,
http://www.convenos.com .  Trial registrants have free and
unlimited usage of a full-featured version of Convenos
Meeting Center, including application sharing, polling,
integrated Internet conferencing, for two weeks.  After the
trial period, Convenos Meeting Center is available for
purchase for $30 per month or $300 per year, per host. 
Each Convenos Meeting Center subscription provides a named
user the ability to host an unrestricted number of
meetings. 

    ABOUT SKYPE

    Skype is the world's fastest-growing service for
Internet communication, allowing people everywhere to make
unlimited voice calls for free.  Skype is available in 27
languages and is used in almost every country around the
world. Skype generates revenue through its premium service
offerings such as making and receiving calls to and from
landline and mobile phones, as well as voicemail and call
forwarding services.  Skype also has relationships with a
growing network of hardware and software providers.  Skype
is an eBay company (Nasdaq: EBAY). To learn more visit
http://skype.com . 

    ABOUT CONVENOS MEETING CENTER

    Convenos Meeting Center is a powerful yet easy-to-use
online collaboration environment which enhances
productivity at any size organization.  Convenos Meeting
Center is simple and convenient to set-up and use,
regardless of whether sessions are scheduled regularly or
ad-hoc.  The flat-fee pricing model is easy to understand
and keeps an organization's collaboration costs predictable
and under budget.  Convenos Meeting Center is certified with
Skype(TM) and integrated with Microsoft(R) Outlook to make
it even easier and more intuitive for users to enjoy the
advantages of online collaboration. 

    ABOUT CONVENOS
    
    Convenos is dedicated to delivering online
collaboration tools that are simple, convenient, and
continue to advance the web-based collaboration and
conferencing industries.  Our products and services target
innovations in the virtual workspace arena which leverage
the convergence of web collaboration and on-demand
applications and respond to business drivers in multiple
industries and within businesses of any size.  Convenos is
committed to simplicity and convenience for the end user,
easy implementation and management for the IT organization,
excellence in the areas of security and compliance, and
demonstrable value-add for all bottom-line stakeholders.
For more information, please visit http://www.convenos.com
. 

    NOTE: Convenos(TM) and the Convenos logo are registered
trademarks of Convenos Corporation.  All product and company
names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their
respective owners.

    For more information, please contact:

     Rebecca Cavagnari, 
     Tel:   [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  Convenos Corporation