Thame, Oxon, UK – 19 July, 2010  –  MeetingZone today announced that it has become a Cisco WebEx Authorised Channel Partner.  The Cisco WebEx™ Authorised Program allows MeetingZone, as a qualified Cisco® partner, to extend its existing collaboration offerings to include Cisco WebEx solutions.

MeetingZone, one of the world’s leading independent conferencing and collaboration service providers, offers its customers high levels of ease of use and self service functionality. The addition of Cisco WebEx solutions may help position MeetingZone to meet the predicted rise in European web conferencing of 19%* over the next five years.

“Cisco WebEx solutions are an important addition to our existing web conferencing portfolio,” explained Tim Duffy, MeetingZone’s CEO.  “Our users can, for the first time, benefit from the Cisco WebEx solutions’ functionality, now fully integrated with our superior audio conferencing quality, our market leading on-line transparent billing systems and MeetingZone’s superior customer service.”

Cisco WebEx solutions bring people and information together to speed the decision-making process and accelerate innovation.  The applications are delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), helping to enable greater business productivity and faster responses to market changes while taking advantage of the Cisco WebEx Collaboration Cloud to provide highly secure, reliable, high-quality collaborative experiences.

“Cisco WebEx solutions introduce a new way to expand your collaboration practice," said Chris Jones, Director of Worldwide Channels, Cisco Collaboration Software Group.  "By selling Cisco WebEx products and becoming a Cisco WebEx Authorised Channel Partner, MeetingZone has made an investment to offer customers solutions that connect entire business ecosystems, drive costs out of existing business processes, and lead them on the path of business transformation."

*Wainhouse Research Segment Report - 2009 European Collaboration Services Market