GroupSystems Sponsors Collaborative Communications Summit, Helps Drive Industry Discussion; CEO Luis Solis among featured panelists examining ROI of collaboration

Business Wire, Oct 24, 2005

DENVER & SAN FRANCISCO -- GroupSystems, Inc., the premier global provider of team collaboration services and solutions, announced today its sponsorship of the Collaborative Communications Summit, a two-day conference and trade show that kicks off today in San Francisco, California at the Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf Hotel. In addition to the company's sponsorship of the summit, GroupSystems' CEO, Luis Solis will participate in a panel examining differences in collaboration benefits and cost savings across organizations of varying sizes. The company will also demonstrate GroupSystems II, its industry-leading tool set for e-meetings, virtual meetings, and digital innovation sessions.

Solis will participate in the panel "The Hidden Savings of Implementing Collaboration Technologies" at 1:30 pm today, in which he and end users will focus on measurement of ROI with examples in sales, marketing and company-wide use, highlighting major differences in ROI criteria among organizations of varying sizes. Solis and other experts will address some of the unexpected savings that many organizations have not considered, providing powerful business case examples for calculating ROI as it relates to collaboration.

"I am looking forward to what is sure to be a lively and informative discussion among leaders in collaboration," noted Solis. "Conveying first-hand success stories quite diverse perspectives should both highlight the general value that organizations of all types can derive from advanced collaboration, as well uncover new sources of value that may not have previously been considered."

In addition to its CEO's participation in the panel, GroupSystems will also demonstrate its powerful tool for building consensus through process-based team collaboration, GroupSystems II. A rich suite of tools that shortens cycle time for strategic planning, product development, problem solving, requirements gathering and other business process, GS II moves workgroups through a repeatable, documented process toward its goals, faster and more completely.

"GroupSystems has had an extraordinary 2005, and we are looking forward to even greater success in the year ahead," added Solis. "We relish opportunities like this to provide the industry's collaboration professionals with a first-hand look at our offering - because once people experience the technology, they instantly recognize its immediate benefits and become as excited as we are about its potential."

For more information about the Collaborative Communications Summit, please visit www.ccsexpo.com.

About GroupSystems Inc.

For more than 16 years, GroupSystems Corporation has transformed traditional team meetings into efficient, collaborative events with a unique tool set for e-meetings, virtual meetings, and digital innovation sessions. Originally founded by IBM and the University of Arizona, today GroupSystems provides technology and solutions to the largest installed client base in collaborative thinking in the Government, Military and Civilian agency marketplaces. Such leading corporations as Proctor & Gamble, IBM, Glaxo Smith Kline, SAIC, and Raytheon utilize GroupSystems as their collaboration platform of choice to gather inputs, achieve consensus, make decisions, and develop high-performance plans. Currently, GroupSystems has almost 10,000 active customer software seats worldwide. Additional information may be viewed at www.groupsystems.com.