OpenSpan Solutions Awarded Two 2012 TMC Labs Innovation Awards

ATLANTA, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenSpan, Inc., a provider of user process analytics, optimization and automation solutions, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named OpenSpan Desktop Analytics™ and OpenSpan Desktop Automation™ winners of the 2012 TMC Labs Innovation Awards presented by TMC's CUSTOMER magazine.

"With revenue growth and cost containment taking center stage among management priorities, customer contact centers are looking for ways to boost performance and efficiency," said Anna Convery, Executive Vice President for OpenSpan. "Several hundred thousand customer-facing workers around the globe are more productive and better able to deliver world-class customer service today through improvements made using OpenSpan solutions. Our independent assessments continue to show that our customers achieve as much as a 21 percent lift in overall productivity within the first year," Convery said.

OpenSpan's Desktop Analytics™ and Desktop Automation™ solutions were designed to help contact centers rapidly improve call center performance, while leveraging existing personnel, processes and IT investments. They give contact center executives a Better Way to Manage™, with the visibility to see how well agents are performing key activities to enterprise standards based on precise, granular visibility into those activities. OpenSpan is used to simplify the agent desktop, streamline processes with automation, improve access to customer data, and provide agent guidance during customer interactions, which can increase accuracy and compliance. For call center agents, it adds up to a Better Way to Work™.

"Congratulations to OpenSpan for being granted these 2012 TMC Labs Innovation Awards. OpenSpan Desktop Automation and OpenSpan Desktop Analytics were selected for demonstrating innovation, superior quality and unique features which have had a positive impact on customer related technologies," said Tom Keating, CTO and TMC Labs Editorial Director.

"OpenSpan has proven that these call center solutions are truly innovative, and have made advancements in the customer experience industry," added Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "We're pleased to recognize these outstanding achievements with TMC Labs Innovation Awards this year."

The TMC Labs Innovation Award honors products that display innovation, unique features, and significant contributions toward improving communications technology. The TMC Labs Innovation Award is granted to those companies demonstrating ground-breaking contributions to the industry.

The TMC Labs 2012 Innovation Award highlights are published in the September 2012 issue of TMC's CUSTOMER magazine.

About OpenSpan
OpenSpan provides technology that improves, accelerates and measures software- and data-driven work on the desktop, driving performance in front-office, retail and back-office environments. Desktop Analytics™ software captures all desktop activity to measure worker performance and work outcomes. Organizations then use OpenSpan's Desktop Automation™ tool for building and implementing user process improvement or process automation solutions across enterprise applications. OpenSpan solutions require no changes to IT architecture or mission-critical applications, providing rapid development and deployment, agile response to changing business needs, and continuous, iterative improvement. OpenSpan customers include Global 2000 organizations in financial services, insurance and telecom, among other industries. Customers report exponential ROI through increased productivity, improved efficiency and enhanced customer experience. The privately held company is based in Atlanta, GA.

TMC's CUSTOMER Magazine

TMC's CUSTOMER magazine premiered in September 2012 and has become the industry's new, definitive source for news, product information, and strategies for communications that engage customers and potential customers. CUSTOMER's tag line "Target. Engage. Deliver." sums up what businesses must do to attract new customers and keep existing customers and will be the primary focus of the magazine.

Each issue of CUSTOMER includes news and insights on the latest developments in agent training, analytics and big data, ERP, IVR and self service, multi-channel call center, social CRM and other social media solutions, marketing campaign creation, mobile apps, outbound marketing, workforce management, and more. Please visit CUSTOMER.TMCnet.com for more information.

About TMC

TMC is celebrating its 40^th anniversary as a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online.TMC publishes the TMC's CUSTOMER Magazine (formerly Customer Interaction Solutions), INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility, and Cloud Computing magazines. TMCnet.com, which is read by 1.5 million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world's leading B2B communications event. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events:  Cloud Communications Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; CVx (ChannelVision Expo); DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; LatinComm Conference & Expo; M2M Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobility Tech Conference & Expo; MSPAlliance MSPWorld; StartupCamp; Video World Conference & Expo and more.

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SOURCE OpenSpan, Inc.