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SSE Group Provides Channel to Network
Service Providers
MELVILLE, NY and TOKYO - September 22, 2003 - CosmoCom
announced today that it has signed an agreement for the
distribution of its products in Japan with Sumisho
Electronics Co, Ltd. (SSE), a core element of Sumitomo
Corporation's group of information technology companies. SSE
provides CosmoCom with excellent reach to its target market
of the leading global network service providers. CosmoCom
provides SSE with an offering that complements several other
product lines that the SSE Network Solution Unit distributes
in Japan, including equipment from Sonus Networks.
SSE, a substantial $400 million company in its own right employing about 700 people, is a part of trading giant Sumitomo, whose annual revenue is $80 billion. The entry of Sumitomo, one of the world's oldest and largest business entities, into the field of Next Generation Networks speaks to the developing maturity of this industry. Sumitomo's guiding principles, set down by its founder Masatomo Sumitomo almost 400 years ago, that "Steadiness and reliability are of the greatest importance; speculative profit should not be sought," reflect long term values that contrast with much of the business environment in recent years.
"The network service providers in Japan, like those in many other countries, want to offer enhanced services that complement and add value to their traditional core services," said Ike Nakamura, General Manager of SSE's VoIP Network Business. "SSE believes that Contact Center On-Demand is an important component of such offerings, and will be a very successful one for the Japanese carriers who adopt it. We are pleased to make available to them the products of CosmoCom, the world leader in this space."
"CosmoCom respects and shares the values of Sumitomo, and looks forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with SSE," said Ari Sonesh, CosmoCom's Chairman and CEO. "We at CosmoCom are pleased and proud that the Japanese, whose emphasis on product quality is globally recognized as number one, are accepting our product, CosmoCall Universe, for use in one of the biggest economies in the world."
About CosmoCom
CosmoCom is the leading provider of all-IP, universal access
customer interaction management (CIM) platforms. CosmoCall
Universe™ supports multi-channel contacts including
telephone, web chat, web voice, web video, web
collaboration, email and voicemail in one high capacity,
high availability, multi-tenant platform. CosmoCall Universe
is a complete, unified contact center suite that includes
ACD, IVR, CTI, predictive dialing, multimedia recording and
a complement of powerful management applications. Network
Service Providers use CosmoCall Universe to offer hosted
Contact Center On-Demand™ solutions to their end user
customers. CosmoCom also provides best-of-breed CIM
components, including IP ACD and IP IVR for OEMs to build
pre-integrated customer interaction and relationship
management (CIRM) systems. CosmoCom technology is available
worldwide through CosmoCom's OEM and Network Service
Provider partners, including BT, Cable & Wireless,
France Telecom, KT, PLDT, Rockwell FirstPoint Contact and
TeliaSonera. Headquartered in Melville, New York, CosmoCom
has received an array of industry awards and was recently
ranked by Deloitte and Touche as Long Island's fastest
growing company. For more information about CosmoCom, please
visit www.cosmocom.com.
About Sumisho Electronics
SSE provides solutions and the highest quality support and
service in the core business areas of engineering,
enterprise IT, and networking. Specialized businesses such
as network management systems, software development and
Internet sales of scientific and engineering software are
delegated to SSE's subsidiary companies for maximum group
management efficiency. SSE has been seizing the trend of the
latest high technology and products developed in the United
States and Europe, cooperating with Sumitomo Corporation's
IT-related companies Presidio Venture Partners, LLC and
Sumitronics, Inc., located in the Silicon Valley. SSE is
actively pursing investments in new ventures to support new
product development, which SSE introduces to the Japanese
market in a timely manner and cooperates with the ventures
to develop the markets. These activities are a driving force
behind SSE's high quality systems integration. SSE is
committed to enhancing its ability to provide solutions to
meet the various and changing demands of the market by
combining the sales and technical resources of the SSE Group
and by creating alliances with promising domestic and
foreign corporations.