IBSystems, Inc. Teams With Wanadu, Inc. to Bring Web Seminars and Animated Presentations to Its Design Automation Audience
CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002--IBSystems, a
leading provider of web portals and virtual trade shows, today entered
into an agreement with Wanadu, Inc. to provide web seminars with
animated presentations to its targeted high-tech audience. In addition
to providing this service, IBSystems is also now a Wanadu preferred
sales representative, and will be marketing and selling the Wanadu
solution to its many corporate clients.
By using Wanadu's iConference solution, based on
Macromedia®-Flash Communication Server MX(TM) technology IBSystems
can now provide seamless and highly reliable multi-platform web
seminars to hundreds of participants per session that incorporate
streaming video, audio, chat, and white-boarding at a cost that
provides a high ROI for its clients.
David Heller, IBSystems' president, said, "We've tried many other
seminar solutions in the past, and they've all come up short. Wanadu's
leading edge iConference solution out performs anything we've ever
tried. Their complementary product, iCreate, allows us to instantly
convert Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations to streaming Flash that
includes slide animations and audio."
Bhanu Sharma, Wanadu's VP of Products and Business Development,
said, "I'm very excited about our partnership with IBSystems. They'll
be using our Conferencing and PowerPoint to Flash technology to reach
a corporate audience that we want to penetrate, and while they're
holding seminars they'll help us expand into these markets. It's a
win-win for both our companies."
Wanadu's iConference is a perfect adjunct to IBSystems' virtual
trade shows by enhancing interactivity and making its virtual shows
even more like their physical counterparts. Heller said, "With
iConference we are now adding technical conferences to our virtual
shows."
At IBSystems' virtual shows, attendees visit booths to chat
directly with company representatives, experience a wide range of
multimedia product and corporate presentations, take literature,
download demonstration software, and if they get hungry, they can even
order a pizza delivered directly to their office. And now, with the
Wanadu solution, they can attend live interactive technical seminars.
About IBSystems
IBSystems is a leading provider of web portals and virtual trade
shows targeted at computer modeling professional audiences. Its
EDAToolsCafe.com, MCADCafe.com, GISCafe.com, AECCafe.com, PCBCafe, and
CareersCafe web portals bring valuable resources and timely
information and job opportunities to professionals in the Electronic
Design Automation (EDA), Mechanical Computer Aided Design (MCAD),
Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Architectural Engineering
(AEC), and Printed Circuit Board (PCB) industries. Its CareersCafe
brings employers and jobseekers together in each of these high-tech
fields. IBSystems complements their portals with Virtual Trade shows
and four Vision online magazines. The company is building and
launching additional industry-focused vertical portals and products on
an on-going basis. For more information on IBSystems please visit
http://www.ibsystems.com/.
About Wanadu, Inc.
Founded in early 2000 and based in Silicon Valley, Wanadu makes
business communication solutions that are easy, fast and affordable
for professionals in training, eLearning, sales, and marketing.
Wanadu's suite of solutions includes enterprise solutions for
conferencing, PowerPoint conversion to Flash, PowerPoint document
management and legacy application integration. Please visit
http://www.wanadu.com for more information.
iCreate and iConference are trademarks of Wanadu, Inc. Microsoft
PowerPoint and Macromedia Flash MX are trademarks of Microsoft and
Macromedia respectively.
Contact:
IBSystems, Inc.
David Heller, 408/850-9201
Marketing@IBSystems.com
or
Wanadu, Inc.
Bhanu Sharma, 650/210-9190
bhanu@wanadu.com
