Mapfre America Selects Interwise for Live Enterprise Collaboration and Conferencing; Onsite Solution Augments EMC Documentum eRoom for Insurance Group

Business Wire, Jan 9, 2006

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & LONDON -- Interwise(R) Inc., a global leader in enterprise conferencing solutions, today announced that Mapfre America has rolled out Interwise ECP Connect(R), a complete, integrated voice, Web and video conferencing solution. Mapfre America, a subsidiary of Sistema Mapfre, will use ECP Connect to facilitate live collaboration between its offices in the Americas region and the company's main headquarters in Madrid.

Sistema Mapfre is the leading insurance group for the Spanish market. Mapfre America provides direct insurance to the Americas region and employs more than 7,000 employees in eleven countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, United States, Republica Dominicana, Uruguay and Venezuela.

A key benefit for Mapfre America in selecting Interwise was ECP Connect's new integration with EMC Documentum eRoom, a Web-based collaborative workspace. The integration allows Mapfre America to extend its enterprise content management capabilities with integrated, live collaboration, encompassing unlimited live voice, web and video conferencing. Mapfre has deployed ECP Connect for eRoom onsite within Mapfre America and is planning to expand usage and scale throughout the group in the near future.

"Interwise's live collaboration will improve productivity and foster stronger communications and decision making between our teams. The integration with eRoom makes the deployment of Interwise's collaboration solution as straightforward as email," said Andres de la Poza Freire, Coordinador de Soluciones Verticales y de Colaboracion para Mapfre America.

Interwise's award-winning ECP Connect delivers complete, unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing and collaboration across the enterprise, for a fixed price. It provides fully integrated voice conferencing, Web meetings, eLearning classes, Web seminars and broadcasts from a single, IP-based solution with enterprise-class security, reliability and scalability. ECP Connect is a leading choice of Global 2000 companies, with more worldwide deployments of 5,000-plus seats than any other enterprise conferencing solution on the market.

About Mapfre

Sistema Mapfre is an independent financial services group headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It develops insurance products including underwriting, finance and real estate services for the Spanish market as well as 39 other countries worldwide. Sistema Mapfre employs 20,000 employees and has an expected turnover of EUR 12 billion for 2005. Mapfre America, a subsidiary of Sistema Mapfre, is responsible for its direct insurance activities in the American Continent, with a presence in 13 countries, accounts for 7,000 staff and an expected turnover of EUR 2 billion for 2005.

About Interwise

Interwise is the leader in complete Enterprise Conferencing -- unlimited voice, Web, and video conferencing in one integrated platform for a fixed price. Interwise's fixed price / unlimited usage business model and enterprise-class technology combine to make it easy for companies to replace multiple conferencing and collaboration products with a single, integrated solution that can reduce overall conferencing expenses by up to 50 per cent. Leading IT industry publications and analyst firms have recognised Interwise for changing the way conferencing is done by replacing unpredictable per-minute and overage charges with a complete solution that can be deployed as broadly and economically as e-mail. Interwise is a privately held company with major offices in Cambridge, MA USA (Global headquarters), London, UK (EMEA headquarters). Interwise investors include JP Morgan, Leeds Weld, Lazard Technology Partners, GE Capital, NTT and UBS Capital. The company sells to and supports customers globally through a direct sales force, distributors, value-added resellers, communications service providers and network-oriented systems integrators.

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