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Qwaq Changes Name to Teleplace, Delivers Teleplace 3.0 for Scalable Enterprise Collaboration
U.S. Air Force MyBase Program Manager Abacus Leverages Teleplace for Virtual Training
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – September 22, 2009 – Qwaq™ Inc. today announced it has changed its name to Teleplace™ Inc., reflecting the increasing reliance of top enterprise and government customers on the Teleplace trusted collaboration platform. The company also launched Teleplace 3.0, providing massive scalability for voice, text, and application collaboration across thousands of employees. In addition, Air Force personnel worldwide are now receiving flexible, distributed training through the deployment of Teleplace by U.S. Air Force MyBase program manager Abacus Solutions Group. (See http://www.keesler.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123157256).
Chris Koehn, General Partner of Abacus Solutions Group, said “As the Abacus Program Manager for the Air Force MyBase program, we're excited to leverage the specialized Training Center and server scalability of Teleplace 3.0 to build on the training successes we've already accomplished together. In addition, the new Session Broadcast capability has the strong potential to enhance the Air Force's training mission."
Teleplace is the only enterprise-class collaboration platform on the market that enables application sharing both behind the firewall and in the cloud. Teleplace’s unique vPresence™ technology securely combines VoIP, chat, and video with a robust virtual application command center to accelerate data-centric collaboration. Teleplace defines “trusted collaboration” with a series of advanced features including Active Directory and LDAP integration, end-to-end encryption, pervasive authentication and access controls, and compatibility with a wide range of enterprise applications and document formats.
“Many businesses, government agencies, and educational institutions are already achieving significant benefits in the form of distributed workgroup productivity and increased innovation from their use of immersive collaboration technologies,” said Erica Driver, co-founder and principal, ThinkBalm. “Teleplace 3.0 is a great example of an immersive platform designed from the ground up for enterprise use. With the scalability and ease-of-use enhancements in this latest release, Teleplace is well-positioned to secure even more enterprise wins.”
Teleplace 3.0
The new Teleplace 3.0 platform delivers a number of key enhancements, including:
- Enhanced Scalability: As customers expand their application-centric collaboration programs to hundreds or thousands of employees, scalability and performance are critical. Teleplace 3.0 enterprise servers enable dynamic load-balancing and cluster expansion to scale up gracefully.
- Large Communication Events: Teleplace 3.0 now supports new use modes for larger groups. For example, meeting leaders can rapidly set up and admit users to theater-style virtual briefings, with flexible moderated communication settings such as mute, group auto-gather and moderated Q&A. The new Training Center template provides an optimized environment for interactive corporate training in a variety of class sizes.
- RTSP Video Broadcast: Teleplace 3.0 now enables live broadcast from your immersive environment to large corporate audiences, using only standard desktop media players. Combined with Teleplace import and export of industry-standard MP4 files, workplace events with “situation room” elements can be archived or streamed live to thousands of internal and external users.
- Visual Polling: In an effort to make virtual meetings even more productive than live meetings, Teleplace now enables instant Visual Polling. Meeting leaders can quickly “crowd source” and tap into the expertise and judgment of employees in multiple locations and display survey results in real time. The enterprise achieves its goals of smarter decisions and more empowered employees, and archived results eliminate second-guessing.
Also this week, Teleplace customers Chevron and Intel are showcasing virtual collaboration at the 3D TLC Conference in San Jose, Calif. In a keynote speech, Chevron’s Kevyn Renner is presenting the company’s studies using trusted collaboration in an operational setting.
“We have invested heavily in enterprise-class capabilities and security over the last four years, and the new Teleplace brand reflects that focus. It’s not an online meeting, it’s a secure virtual space for real work,” said Teleplace CEO Greg Nuyens. “Using Teleplace, customers in many sectors have transformed the way their teams work together. Teleplace 3.0 enables them to scale this productivity to thousands of employees behind the firewall or in the cloud.”
Teleplace 3.0 is available immediately, with pricing starting at $60/month per user. Download the free 30-day trial at www.teleplace.com/trial.
About Teleplace
Teleplace, Inc. creates trusted collaboration solutions to help enterprises manage data-intensive projects and operations across multiple locations. Teleplace is a secure virtual workspace that combines voice, video and chat communications with multi-application and document sharing, enabling more efficient workflows among distributed teams, suppliers, and customers. Teleplace provides application collaboration solutions to more than 100 Global 500 and mid-size customers, including leading firms in the energy, semiconductor, education, manufacturing, financial, healthcare and government sectors.
For more information, please contact:
Susan Spencer
Spencer Communications
(310) 543-9121
susan@spencercomm.biz
Teleplace, Qwaq, Qwaq Forums, and vPresence are trademarks of Teleplace Inc. Other marks are property of their respective owners,
