Software drives on-demand business communications.
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Combining custom portal creation, content management, collaboration, and real-time analytics, icSuite 2.0 allows anyone in organization to create and deliver customizable ports within 5 min with no technical expertise, hardware, or software. Software supports multiple portal template branding, portal user management for large volumes of portal users, bulk portal user load, publishing for portal users, and best-of-breed security.
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iCentera Raises the Bar on Enterprise Portal Software with icSuite 2.0
'Portals for Mortals' Drive On-Demand Business Communications
MINNEAPOLIS and HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Sept. 19 /-- DEMOFall 2005, Station #14 -- iCentera, the leading provider of on-demand communication portals, today introduced a new paradigm to the Enterprise Portal Solution (EPS) space with the announcement of icSuite 2.0. icSuite 2.0's "Portals for Mortals" deliver an easy-to-use, hosted solution that allows anyone in the organization to create and deliver customizable portals within five minutes with no technical expertise, hardware or software. In about the same amount of time that it takes to create an email, the icSuite enables companies to create on-demand portals to communicate both internally and externally. With the introduction of the icSuite2.0, iCentera is taking this innovative communication approach to the next level by adding new publishing capabilities, dynamic portal branding, advanced portal user management, additional security controls, content templates, and improved two- way communication via portals.
"ADC has served the communications industry for more than half a century. With complex product offerings we have a vast amount of content located on multiple intranets and other locations. This information needs to be updated, communicated and made available for our global sales teams and externally to partners and customers. We needed a solution that would easily provide communication portals and we needed it immediately," said Bill Fuesz, senior marketing manager at ADC. "The icSuite gave us the ability to create and deliver customized portals for specific audiences in a fraction of the time and cost it would have taken to build and manage them. More importantly, the icSuite will help us to effectively communicate with internal and external audiences to drive our marketing message and improve sales."
Companies are feeling the stagnant effects of communicating through extranets, intranets, and email. Enterprises spend millions of dollars and years leveraging cumbersome portal solutions to improve online communication. Today, they are looking for portal solutions that deliver collaborative capabilities and best practices immediately. iCentera is creating a new paradigm within the EPS space by changing the way businesses communicate using event-driven portal templates that enable users to go from an idea to delivery within five minutes.
The iCentera icSuite 2.0 combines four functional elements; custom portal creation, content management, collaboration, and real-time analytics in one solution. When integrated, these four elements create a powerful business communication tool. New features in icSuite 2.0 include:
-- Enhanced Portal Creation and Customization - Support for multiple portal template branding, advanced portal user management for large volumes of portal users, publishing to one or thousands of portals in a few clicks, and bulk portal user load.
-- Increased Content Management Controls - New portal search facility, improved binder management, expanded portal news management, expanded publishing for portal users, and advanced charting.
-- Content and portals templates - "Out-of-the-box" portal template and content best practices for marketing, sales and support.
-- Best-of-breed security - Further secures sensitive content andcollaboration.
"There is a sincere move in the enterprise to leverage on-demand solutions that deliver immediate ROI," said Craig Nelson, president and CEO of iCentera. "icSuite 2.0 is a direct result of customer usage analytics and the feedback we've received from our customers and their successful creation of more than 2,800 on-demand icPortals. We have heard from many executives that they simply couldn't wait from months to a year to deliver event-driven portals that support everything from a product launches to customer communication. The icSuite is delivered as a software service in less than 24 hours without the need for technical expertise, software development or hardware infrastructure."
iCentera will be demoing the newly announced icSuite 2.0 at the DEMOfall 2005 conference at booth 14 and in a 6 minute presentation at the show on Tuesday the 20th at 3:24 pm.
About DEMOfall 2005
The annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring and U.S. Robotics, helping them secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit www.demo.com/ .
About iCentera Corporation
iCentera is the leading provider of on-demand communication portals that drive client communication and collaboration. Within 24 hours, iCentera's hosted solution provides custom portal creation, absolute content management, and real-time content and portal analytics so that companies can immediately improve communication with any audience, any time. Founded in 2003, iCentera delivers Portals for Mortals, empowering customers to create portals on-demand to support critical business initiatives. Customers include: ADC, Freescale Semiconductor, American Locker, American Marketing Association (AMA), VNU Global Media, eCredit, IPIX, and Visto. Partners include: The AMA and salesforce.com. The icSuite is salesforce.com sforce certified. For more information visit us at www.icentera.com/ .
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