Software provides on-demand dashboard for PR industry.

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Providing automatic translation of 23 foreign languages, CisionPoint includes RSS tools to publish print, Internet, and broadcast news coverage, including links to article images and video previews. List-building and database features find and view contacts, research beats and outlet topics, and develop and share media profiles. In addition, program offers activity management with ability to filter, report, and export activities across projects and teams.



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CisionPoint PR Services Platform's Latest Release Delivers Online Language Translation, Other Unique Features



Editorial Database Enhancements and Integrated Professional Services Position Cision's On-Demand Software Solution as Industry Leader

CHICAGO, Oct. 13 /- Cision (http://www.us.cision.com/), the leading provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and analysis services, today introduced significant upgrades to its CisionPoint integrated software platform to provide the public relations industry's most robust on-demand dashboard application.

Featuring more than 45 unique enhancements, the new CisionPoint release includes automatic translation of 23 foreign languages; easy RSS publishing of print, online and broadcast media pickup; enhanced contact management; and faster access to contact and media information. Cision also announced a suite of integrated professional services providing CisionPoint clients with hands-on assistance in creating and managing lists, developing search parameters, filtering and tagging media coverage, and providing immediate analysis of the tone and quality of coverage.

"Rapid customer acceptance and our constant improvement of the CisionPoint platform have vaulted Cision into the global leadership position for on-demand PR media management solutions," said Joe Bernardo, President and CEO of Cision North America. "In this newest release, our ability to deliver professional services - and our best-in-class integrated media contact database management, distribution, monitoring and measurement platform - represent an unbeatable combination for customers of every size."

Launched in North America in October 2007, CisionPoint rapidly became the fastest growing on-demand PR media management dashboard application, with more than 1,500 customers signed in its first year of sales (http://us.cision.com/cisionpoint1000)

Unique Features Lead On-Demand Dashboard Category

New and improved features of the CisionPoint platform include:

-- Automatic online translation of foreign-language article texts into English

-- RSS tools to publish print, internet and broadcast news coverage, including links to article images and video previews

-- List-building and database enhancements to easily find and view contacts, research beats and outlet topics, and develop and share media profiles

-- Improved activity management with the ability to filter, report and export activities across projects and teams

-- Professional services to assist clients in developing more targeted media lists, filtering and tagging their coverage, and rating the tone of articles and generating coverage reports

Cision, with offices in more than a dozen countries in Europe, North America and Asia/Pacific, is currently rolling out CisionPoint as the standard on-demand platform for its customers worldwide. CisionPoint's customers include Fortune 500 corporations, global public relations firms, non-profit organizations, universities, and small businesses.

CisionPoint clients will benefit through higher productivity and better results in public relations campaigns. Automatic translation of foreign-language news coverage and the ability to access and use the common database from locations around the world make CisionPoint ideal for global public relations programs.

The suite of professional services provided by Cision's team of experienced consultants enables CisionPoint customers to fully leverage the power of the on-demand platform - from media research, to contact management, to monitoring, measuring, analyzing and presenting results of PR campaigns.

For more information, visit http://us.cision.com/professional_services

About Cision

Cision (www.cision.com) improves clients' performance through integrated services and software solutions for reputation and campaign management, media monitoring and research of media contacts. Cision AB is quoted on the Nordic Exchange and has approximately 17,000 shareholders. The company has around 2,600 employees and a turnover of SEK 1.9 billion in 2007. Cision operates in the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Portugal, Lithuania, the Netherlands and China and has partners in another 125 countries.

CONTACT: Stephen Debruyn, Vice President, Marketing, +1-312-986-4974, stephen.debruyn@cision.com

Web Site: http://us.cision.com/

http://us.cision.com/cisionpoint1000

http://us.cision.com/professional_services

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