Latitude Communications Announces MeetingPlace Integration with Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino Server

Business Wire, July 19, 1999

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 1999--

Lotus Notes Users Can Set Up and Attend MeetingPlace

Conference Calls Directly From the Notes Desktop

Latitude Communications (Nasdaq:LATD), a leading provider of integrated voice and data conferencing solutions, today announced the integration of its MeetingPlace(R) system with Lotus(R) Notes(R) and Lotus Domino(R) Server. With MeetingPlace for Notes, users across an enterprise can now set up and attend MeetingPlace voice and data conference calls from Lotus Notes clients.

"Our integration with Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino Server builds on our strategy of giving users instant access to the power of MeetingPlace collaboration," said Steve Pao, vice president of Product Management for Latitude. "The tight integration between MeetingPlace and Lotus Notes allows users to manage virtual conferences in the same familiar way that they manage face-to-face meetings. The advantage for companies is the ability to provide conferencing as a standard part of the corporate voice and data network infrastructure."

MeetingPlace is an enterprise solution for voice and data conferencing that is deployed as a standard part of a corporation's communications infrastructure. The integration of MeetingPlace with a company's other deployed office applications, offers the following benefits. First, users access conference functionality through familiar desktop applications such as the corporate intranet and groupware products such as Lotus Notes. Second, the system provides integrated voice and data conferencing for the ability to share and edit documents over the Internet during the voice conference. Third, users can capture and retrieve the content of meetings in the form of documents and recordings. The system automatically posts these documents and recordings to a meeting web site for retrieval.

"Voice and data conferencing initiatives are gaining momentum," said Matthew Cain, vice president of Workgroup Computing Strategies for META Group. "Products like MeetingPlace for Notes will accelerate this by leveraging the groupware interface to make conferencing accessible to dispersed workgroups from their desktops. "

"Many of our customers are taking advantage of Latitude's MeetingPlace technology today," said Tim Browne, general manager, Notes Marketing at Lotus. "MeetingPlace's Lotus Notes and Domino integration allows them to quickly create or attend a conference call from within the applications they use most frequently. So scheduling or joining a call is just as easy as making a calendar entry!"

Simple Conference Setup and Attendance

MeetingPlace for Notes makes it simple to manage conference setup and attendance by simply checking the "MeetingPlace meeting" box on the Notes calendar entry form. When the meeting request is sent, the conference is scheduled on MeetingPlace. A single invitation containing MeetingPlace information and other meeting materials -- such as presentations, proposals, or other group projects -- is automatically sent to all meeting participants. In addition to meeting information, invitations contain attendance buttons that allow participants to join the meeting by clicking on the "join voice" and "join data" buttons in their Notes calendar.

Pricing

MeetingPlace for Notes is a $19,995 option on the MeetingPlace system. A typical MeetingPlace system starts at $100,000.

About Latitude Communications

Latitude Communications Inc. is a leading provider of integrated voice and data conferencing solutions for geographically dispersed organizations. Latitude's MeetingPlace system leverages the Internet for web-based data conferencing and the public telephone network for standard voice conferencing. Through MeetingPlace, users can easily schedule and attend meetings, share and edit documents, and record and access meeting content. The system is designed for enterprise-wide deployment to improve the ability of employees, partners, and customers to meet and work. MeetingPlace has been installed in some of the world's leading enterprises, including Aetna, Cisco, Credit Suisse First Boston, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft. Based in Santa Clara, California, Latitude has direct sales and support offices or distribution partners in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. Latitude can be contacted at 408-988-7200 or via the World Wide Web at http://www.latitude.com.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, Latitude's limited operating history, potential fluctuations in operating results, intense competition from substantially larger, more recognized companies, the early stage of development of the market for integrated voice and data conferencing systems, the company's ability to attract and retain customers, uncertainties regarding the impact of the Year 2000 issue, the company's need to expand its sales and distribution channels, uncertain market acceptance for Latitude's products and rapid technological change. These and other risk factors are described in detail in the company's prospectus dated May 6, 1999 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.