Genesys Conferencing

Infobox_Company
company_name = Genesys Conferencing
company_type = Société Anonyme
foundation = December 1986
founder = Bernard Brabet
location = Montpellier, France and Vienna, Virginia, USA
industry = Real-time collaboration services
flagship product = Genesys Meeting Center
revenue = EUR 141.6 Million (2006)
num_employees = ~1000 (Dec 2006)
homepage = http://www.genesys.comFounded in 1986, Genesys provides multimedia collaboration and conferencing services to thousands of organizations worldwide. The company’s primary product, Genesys Meeting Center, is a unified collaboration solution delivered as "Software as a Service".

The company has offices in 24+ countries across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific where it offers local support to its primary focus, the Fortune 1000 customer segment. Genesys Conferencing is publicly traded on Euronext Eurolist C in France (FR0004270270). Additional information is available at http://www.genesys.com

Its products include Genesys Meeting Center - with more than 90% of the business, Genesys Event Services and Genesys Video Services.

History

Genesys Conferencing was created in 1986 by Bernard Brabet, in Montpellier (France).

In 1988, the company launched the world’s first fully automated audio conferencing service.

In 1992, Genesys Conferencing started its European expansion, followed by the penetration of the Asia-Pacific and North American markets in 1997 and 1998 respectively. Today, the company has a presence in 24 countries throughout the world, and continues to enter new markets.

In 2001, the company launched the industry’s first integrated audio, web and video conferencing service: Genesys Meeting Center. At the same time, the company doubled its size and further established its North American presence through the acquisitions of Vialog Corporation and Astound.

In 2006, Genesys Conferencing introduced the fourth generation of Genesys Meeting Center with a new User Interface integrating both traditional telephony and VoIP. Also introducing an AJAX client for ubiquitous participant access.

On February 19, 2008, West Corporation and Genesys announced that West will seek to acquire Genesys and combine it with InterCall, Inc., a West subsidiary. [cite web |url=http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0363348.htm |title=Friendly Tender Offer By West Corporation For Genesys Conferencing date=2008-02-19 |accessdate=2008-02-20]

On May 23rd, 2008 West Corporation closed the acquisition of Genesys Conferencing.

ervices

Genesys Meeting Center is a SaaS Unified communications and collaboration service, combining PSTN, VoIP and streaming media voice access with video and web conferencing. Moderators can deliver presentations, share documents or applications in real time or they can record their meetings for playback later.

Genesys Event Service is an all-inclusive integrated multimedia conferencing offering, combining Web, audio, presentation options, participant registration and interaction. This service is predominantly used for larger meetings and typically includes operator assistance.

Genesys Video Services is designed to manage all aspects of a video conference, from room booking and dispatch of attendee invitations to conference monitoring and reporting, entirely from the desktop.

Corporate governance

Board of DirectorsCurrent members of the Board of Directors of Genesys Conferencing are: François Legros, Bo Dimert, Timothy Samples, David Detert, Patrick S Jones and Frédéric Spagnou.

Management Committee:*François Legros, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer:*Jim Huzell, President:*Shelly Robertson, EVP Chief Operating Officer:*Andrew Lazarus, EVP Chief Financial Officer:*Jim Lysinger, EVP Sales & Marketing :*Stephen Sperling, EVP Productions & Infrastructure:*Denise Persson, EVP Marketing:*Olivier Fourcade, EVP Asia-Pacific

References

External links

* [http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/09/46TCgenesys_1.html InfoWorld review of Genesys Meeting Center 4.0]
* [http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/1106/review-miercom-test.htm Multimedia conferencing services review on Internet Telephony]
* [http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1934550,00.asp Genesys Conferencing: Combo Platter]
* [http://www.ist-prize.org/winners/list.html?year=2003 2003 European IST Prize Winner]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4870000/newsid_4878800/bb_wm_4878858.stm BBC NEWS | Business | Video conferencing on the up] (Video)
* [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1745799,00.asp PC Magazine review of Genesys Meeting Center 3.0]
* [http://www.phoneplusmag.com/articles/421partner01.html Genesys mentioned in conferencing article of Phone+]
* [http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/symbian/rb_63.html Symbian DevZone - Genesys - Global Conferencing for the Symbian OS]