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Siemens Wins eWEEK Excellence Award for Enterprise Collaboration With HiPath OpenScape Presence-Driven, Permission-Based Collaboration Portal

Posted on: Monday, 18 April 2005, 15:00 CDT

Siemens Communications, Inc., announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the industry's leading enterprise information technology (IT) magazines, has named the Siemens HiPath(R) OpenScape(TM) presence-driven and permission-based collaboration portal as a winner in eWEEK's Fifth Annual Excellence Awards program. Siemens received top honors in the award program's Enterprise Collaboration category.

Along with other category winners, Siemens will receive its award at a special ceremony on April 26 at The Westin Copley Place in Boston. A list of all the award winners can be found in the April 11 issue of eWEEK magazine and on www.eweek.com.

HiPath OpenScape middleware improves business velocity by streamlining employee and team communication. The OpenScape software suite helps eliminate unproductive enterprise communication processes and ensures more contacts - on the first try - by providing real-time presence and availability views of users, teams and preferred modes or devices for instant collaboration. Enterprises can further lower collaboration costs and improve productivity by taking advantage of the OpenScape solution's comprehensive Web Services Toolkit. With the toolkit, enterprises can integrate presence views and user permissions directly into workflow applications, expediting interaction-rich business processes.

Siemens, with its HiPath OpenScape solution, continues to receive industry accolades for its portfolio of unified collaboration tools that facilitate quicker decision-making by synchronizing people, devices and information. A leading independent research firm recently identified Siemens as the leader in this market segment. As a real-time, speech-enabled, presence-aware, SIP-based communications software suite, the HiPath OpenScape solution leverages all carrier and enterprise communication systems (IP and TDM Centrex as well as PBX and IP-PBX variants from major vendors), or IT solutions like the Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS).

In addition to the HiPath OpenScape portal, Siemens and Microsoft Corp. are working together to provide enterprises with a new HiPath OpenScape Telephony Control Link (TCL) solution, a real-time interface linking the Microsoft Office Communicator client and an IP-PBX or PBX telephone. The HiPath OpenScape TCL integrates with the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 platform to telephone-enable Microsoft's Office Communicator client. This provides employees with click-to-call telephone functionality directly from the desktop.

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise IT professionals with a benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries this year was a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners, providing a unique mix of technical and real-world analysis.

About Siemens

Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $91.5 billion in fiscal 2004. Founded more than 150 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas of Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $16.6 billion and employs 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 430,000 people in 192 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com

About Siemens Communications, Inc.

Siemens Communications, Inc., offers its customers a broad portfolio of communication products and services and is a leader in convergent technologies, products and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. The company's portfolio ranges from devices for end users to complex network infrastructures and complementary services for enterprises, carriers and service providers. Siemens Communications, Inc., is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla. For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com/communications

Note: HiPath and OpenScape are trademarks or registered trademarks of Siemens AG or its subsidiaries and affiliates. All other company, brand, product and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

This release contains forward-looking statements based on beliefs of Siemens management. The words "anticipate,""believe,""estimate,""forecast,""expect,""intend,""plan,""should," and "project" are used to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results to be materially different, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and interest rates, introduction of competing products, lack of acceptance of new products or services and changes in business strategy. Actual results may vary materially from those projected here. Siemens does not intend or assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Source: Business Wire

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