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September 16/2003
BusinessWire
TELIRIS ANNOUNCES JOINT PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT WITH UK’S CITY INFORMATION SERVICES LTD.
NEW YORK, September, 16, 2003 -- Teliris Ltd., the leading provider of Interactive Telepresence, a revolutionary technology that redefines videoconferencing, announced a new Worldwide Partner Program agreement with City Information Services Ltd. (“CityIS”). With offices throughout the UK and Europe, CityIS is one of the region’s top systems integrators, specializing in the videoconferencing sector of the information technology marketplace.
Under the terms of the agreement, CityIS will offer Teliris’s VirtuaLive™ meeting solutions to its clients and prospective buyers through joint information sessions, symposiums, joint collateral materials and one-on-one meetings. It will also assist Teliris with key installation efforts.
CityIS is the first company to join the Teliris Worldwide Partnership Program, which is offered to select agents, resellers and other potential partners across the globe.
“We’re very pleased to be launching our partner program with CityIS,” said Marc Trachtenberg, Teliris co-founder and chief technology officer. “This agreement gives both companies an important and unique business opportunity. While we already have a strong presence in portions of the United Kingdom and Europe, CityIS has a well-established brand, a significant reputation and credibility. Teliris will support CityIS by offering their clients a portfolio of what we call ‘Interactive Telepresence’ solutions to the European market -- solutions that will allow them to conduct better and more economically attractive business meetings over great distances.”
“This agreement offers real opportunity for both companies,” said John Thompson, chief executive officer of CityIS. “The combination of Teliris’ outstanding Interactive Telepresence technology and our own extensive experience, expertise and high standard of client service supplied under the ezifitTM brand is a unique proposition for the corporate market. The initiative allows us to offer a range of specialist high end solutions to our clients and opens potential new opportunities for growth outside Europe.”
The Teliris Worldwide Partnership Program is a multitiered program designed to identify unique synergies between the company’s Interactive Telepresence solutions and the offerings that agents, distributors, integrators and value-added resellers already offer to their clients. Several more strategic agreements will be put into place by the end of 2003, strengthening Teliris’s global reach, while at the same time providing select partners with a new and fundamentally different class of technology solution to offer to their clients.
Established in February 2001, Teliris Ltd. is a spinoff of the network and directory services leader Mycroft Inc. Headquartered in New York and London, Teliris, using its VirtuaLive™ meeting environment, simulates in-person meetings to an extent not achievable with traditional videoconferencing, while giving clients an extraordinary return on value. Among the many companies employing the VirtuaLive™ solution are British Petroleum, Lazard, the venture-capital firm 3i, Pearson plc and Vodafone.
CityIS is a leading UK-based systems integrator, specializing in the video technology sector of the IT market, which includes videoconferencing, system installation, audio-visual integration, design, planning and training services for all products, and support and maintenance. CityIS offers highly competitive video technology solutions, tailored to clients’ exact requirements and backed by a comprehensive support and maintenance program. It also offers training and consultancy programs on a global basis.
For further information, contact:
Teliris
Chuck Hirsch
VP, Marketing and Communications
Teliris Ltd.
(212) 490-1065, ext. 205
E-mail: chuck.hirsch@teliris.com
or visit the Teliris Web site at www.teliris.com
CityIS
Gareth Wade
Director, Sales and Marketing
E-mail: gareth.wade@cityis.co.uk
or visit the CityIS Web site at www.cityis.co.uk.
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