| Vicinity Chooses Pixion’s PictureTalk Web Conferencing Solution
Cost Savings Benefit and Robust
Security Play Key Role in Vicinity ’s
Decision to Implement PictureTalk
PLEASANTON, Calif. – Sept. 16, 2002 – Pixion,
Inc., the leader in cross-platform Web conferencing
solutions, today announced that Vicinity Corporation (Nasdaq: VCNT; www.vicinity.com),
the leading provider of enterprise location-based
services, has selected PictureTalk™ as its preferred Web conferencing
solution.
PictureTalk is the only native cross-platform Web conferencing solution, offering superior ROI, flexibility, and scalability compared with existing peer-to-peer and traditional client-server Web conferencing technologies. Following a comprehensive product evaluation and cost/benefit analysis, Vicinity replaced its existing hosted Web conferencing solution with PictureTalk. Vicinity uses PictureTalk as a primary online communications platform for cost-effective internal business conferencing, executive presentations and IT staff training programs.
Because the PictureTalk solution
is installed on Vicinity’s servers behind the company’s network firewall, it provides virtually unlimited usage for company personnel with the highest levels of performance and Internet security. In addition, PictureTalk’s intuitive, easy-to-use interface enables staff across Vicinity’s
multiple North American offices and field
sales sites to easily set up and conduct meetings on-the-fly without
requiring extensive configuration
or training.
“PictureTalk is becoming an important part of our internal communications infrastructure,” said Mike Diehn, IT manager at Vicinity Corporation. “We tried other hosted Web conferencing solutions, but they could not match the price/performance benefit of Pixion’s
product.”
Based on Pixion’s Client-Server-Client™ (CSC) architecture, PictureTalk delivers secure Web conferencing without the bandwidth constraints of the peer-to-peer networking technology employed by most other Web conferencing service providers. Designed to run 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.
PictureTalk is designed for a wide range of business applications, including software sales, customer support, product demonstrations, professional training and distance education.
About Vicinity
Vicinity Corporation provides technology-based solutions
that enable businesses, governments and agencies to market the local
availability of their products and services. Using Web, wireless and
speech platforms, Vicinity offers a comprehensive portfolio of application
services and application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow enterprises
to direct their customers to a brick-and-mortar store, branch or outlet
near them that offers the specific product or service they are seeking.
Vicinity’s customers include Bank of America, Delta Dental, FedEx,
Hewlett-Packard, Hilton Hotels Corporation, John Deere, Lexus, McDonald's,
Ritz-Carlton, and The Home Depot. Vicinity was established in 1995
and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
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