ATLANTA, July 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PGi (NYSE: PGi), a global leader in virtual meetings for over 20 years, today announced that iMeet, its award-winning software application providing businesses with an innovative new way to do web conferencing, can now be accessed via the SAP® Business ByDesign® solution. Through this offering, iMeet's unique web-based collaboration service will be available to even more fast-growing, mid-market businesses and subsidiaries of large enterprises working with SAP around the world.
With today's announcement, PGi will help SAP enhance the SAP Business ByDesign solution with an easy-to-use web conferencing experience that works on any device, so that people can meet at their desks or on-the-go. iMeet includes high-definition (HD) video, cloud file storage and best-in-class mobile collaboration applications, helping people meet face-to-face, even when they are not in the same place.
"SAP Business ByDesign allows customers to run their entire business on a single, cloud-based application, and iMeet's unique web conferencing experience is the perfect complement," said J. Scott Tapp, EVP Global Sales and Marketing, PGi. "By offering iMeet within SAP Business ByDesign, SAP is further delivering on its promise to provide customers with innovative applications that are easy-to-use, personal and accessible anywhere."
SAP Business ByDesign is a fully integrated business management solution dedicated to companies in the small and midsize enterprise (SME) market as well as to subsidiaries of large enterprises running SAP solutions in their headquarters. It delivers the best of SAP software, on-demand. This solution is designed as a best-fit offering for companies that want the benefits of highly scalable, flexible business management applications without the costs of supporting the corresponding IT infrastructure. SAP Business ByDesign unifies multiple business operations and enables companies to implement preconfigured business processes in order to solve immediate problems. Accessed via a single user interface, SAP Business ByDesign delivers pre-configured software for business processes and supports managing financials, customer relationships, human resources, projects, procurement and the supply chain.
With this announcement, iMeet is now available online in the SAP Store and through PGi sales representatives globally.
About Premiere Global Services, Inc. │ PGi
PGi has been a global leader in virtual meetings for over 20 years. PGi's cloud-based solutions deliver multi-point, real-time virtual collaboration using video, voice, mobile, web streaming and file sharing technologies. PGi solutions are available via desktops, tablets and mobile devices, helping businesses worldwide be more productive, mobile and environmentally responsible. PGi has a global presence in 25 countries and an established base of over 40,000 enterprise customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100TM. In the last five years, PGi has hosted nearly one billion people from 137 countries in over 200 million virtual meetings. For more information, visit PGi at www.pgi.com.
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Statements made in this press release, other than those concerning historical information, should be considered forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties. 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 Premiere Global Services, Inc.'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 our cloud-based, virtual meeting solutions, including our iMeet® and GlobalMeet® solutions; our ability to attract new customers and to retain and further penetrate our existing customers; our ability to establish and maintain strategic reseller relationships; risks associated with challenging global economic conditions; price increases from our telecommunications service providers; service interruptions and network downtime; technological obsolescence and our ability to upgrade our equipment or increase our network capacity; concerns regarding the security and privacy of our customer's 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 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, 2012. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or a person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
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