| PIXION ADDS ON24 TO PICTURETALK BUSINESS PARTNER
PROGRAM
ON24 to Deliver PictureTalk as Part of its Webcast Center Solution
PLEASANTON, Calif. – Aug. 12, 2003 –
Pixion, Inc., the leader in cross-platform Web conferencing solutions,
today announced that ON24, Inc., a leading multimedia and Webcast
solutions provider for the enterprise, has joined Pixion’s
Business Partner Program to help expand reach of PictureTalk to
online meeting customers. ON24 will include PictureTalk as part
of its Webcast Center solution, enabling Webcast participants to
easily launch Pixion’s robust Web conferencing capabilities
during a Webcast session.
“Adding PictureTalk to our Webcast Center
has enabled us to offer our customers a more powerful and flexible
online communications solution,” said Scott Diehl, ON24’s
senior vice president, sales and business development. “With
PictureTalk, we can provide our customers with the ability to deliver
live application demos without requiring our customers to download
any client plug ins.”
Pixion’s solution enables partner resellers to deliver
their customers, whether a small business or global corporation,
a cost-effective, scalable, Web conferencing solution that best
fits their online meeting demands and budget parameters. Available
as a high-performance Web-hosted service, PictureTalk Hosted Services,
and an installed enterprise software application, PictureTalk Enterprise
Conference Server (ECS), reseller partners have the flexibility
to bring the solution in-house to manage pay-per-use hosted customers,
or offer clients a server-based product that is integrated with
their corporate enterprise communications system behind the firewall.
“With the increasing number of corporations
opting for online communications solutions to correspond with customers,
partners and employees, the decision to combine our leading Web
conferencing solution with the top Webcasting technology made a
lot of sense,” said Manny Yap, Pixion’s director of
business development. “Together, PictureTalk and ON24’s
Webcast Center allow customers to increase productivity, reduce
travel requirements and costs, and maximize efficiencies by essentially
combining two meetings into one. This is the first time that users
will be able to easily conduct a Webcast and Web conference simultaneously
via a single online environment, giving them a whole new level of
freedom and flexibility."
Designed to run natively on any client platform,
including Windows®, Macintosh® and Solaris™, PictureTalk
offers unparalleled ease-of-use and control, allowing meeting presenters
to capture information in real-time right from their desktop, and
easily share and collaborate over the Internet with an unlimited
number of attendees.
About Pixion’s Business Partner
Program
Pixion’s Business Partner Program was created to broaden
sales channel distribution and provide customers with increased
access to the PictureTalk platform through traditional and value
added services resellers that possess extensive experience in online
conferencing products and services. Program partners have the flexibility
to resell PictureTalk ECS or become PictureTalk Hosted Services
providers, enabling them to offer customized Web conferencing solutions
via a high-performance Web-hosted service or as a behind-the-firewall
enterprise software application. All authorized partners can be
identified with the Authorized Pixion Business Partner logo. For
more information regarding Pixion’s Business Partner Program,
please visit www.pixion.com or call 888-8-PIXION.
About ON24’s Webcast
Center
ON24 Webcast Center is a suite of tools comprised of the
Event Manager, and the Presentation Manager - together they provide
a total Webcasting Toolkit. Designed to support hundreds, even thousands,
of online users, the ON24 Webcast Center is an entirely web-based
communications platform. It is highly scalable and firewall-friendly,
enabling you to deliver presentations, add new features and enhancements,
and meet or exceed the most stringent security, performance, scalability,
and reliability standards - all at a price you can easily afford.
There is no hardware or software to buy, install or maintain, minimal
training is required, and implementation can be completed in days.
About ON24
ON24 is the leading provider of multimedia (streaming) communication
solutions for the enterprise. The company provides one-stop solutions
for internal and external multimedia communications for the enterprise,
financial services, healthcare, and government markets. ON24 customers
include more than 350 leading companies: Cardinal Health/BLP Group
Companies, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse First Boston, Hewlett Packard,
Merrill Lynch, NCAA, Pharmacia, Philips, and Sun Microsystems. Based
in San Francisco, the privately held company was founded in 1998. |