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inContact Brings Leading Cloud-Based Call Center Software to the Growing Philippines Market

<p class&equals;"p&lowbar;italic">Company Expands International Reach With New Manila Office&comma; Winning Five New Customer Contracts<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>MANILA&comma; Philippines &lpar;September 30&comma; 2010&rpar; – inContact &lpar;NASDAQ&colon; SAAS&rpar;&comma; the market leader in on-demand call center software and call center agent optimization tools&comma; announced today the expansion of its operations into the Philippines&period; inContact cloud-based solutions are perfectly suited to help meet the service and profitability goals of business process outsourcers &lpar;BPOs&rpar; worldwide&comma; and particularly those in the Philippines&comma; that need to rapidly scale as the market grows&period; inContact opened a new Manila office to support existing customers in the country&comma; as well as the five new customers the company won since expanding operations in the country<&excl;--more-->&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the Commission on Communications and Information Technology &lpar;CICT&rpar;&comma; the Philippine market has seen exponential growth over the past few years with 446&comma;000 call center agent seats in 2009&comma; of which approximately 90&percnt; handle calls that originate in the United States according to the Contact Center Association of the Philippines &lpar;CCAP&rpar;&period; The market is projected to grow to &dollar;9 billion in 2010&period; With the rapid growth of the market in the Philippines&comma; the country is perfectly suited as inContact&&num;8217&semi;s gateway to Asia and the first location for its international expansion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;inContact&&num;8217&semi;s cloud-based solutions give BPO operators an extraordinary competitive advantage&comma; as evidenced by our initial success in the Philippine market&period; We have been working with several outsourcers over the past several months&comma; and are excited to have a physical office presence here now&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Paul Jarman&comma; inContact CEO&period; &&num;8220&semi;The BPO market is highly competitive and client dissatisfaction and low margins can be the end of an outsourcer&&num;8217&semi;s business&period; Our powerful portfolio of scalable&comma; flexible&comma; pay-as-you-go cloud-based call center outsourcing solutions enable BPOs to better manage their talent&comma; reduce non-billable hours&comma; increase revenue per call&comma; and differentiate their service offering&period; In short&comma; we help them create profitable customer experiences&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;inContact&&num;8217&semi;s technology is a very well-rounded&comma; integrated and robust solution that was infinitely more scalable and less expensive than any premise-based system&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Paul Flannery&comma; CEO of Vector BPO&comma; a full-service contact center based in the Philippines&period; &&num;8220&semi;inContact is a perfect solution for BPOs because ultimately it enables us to deliver more for our clients&&num;8217&semi; customers&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s what&&num;8217&semi;s really important for us&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The inContact platform combines call routing&comma; workforce optimization&comma; and network connectivity solutions with a powerful workflow between the subsystems&comma; making it a very powerful tool for BPOs&period; Additionally&comma; the platform boasts enterprise-class security&comma; reliability&comma; availability&comma; and the industry&&num;8217&semi;s best uptime guarantee of 99&period;99&percnt;&period; Unlike premise-based solutions&comma; the inContact platform enables BPOs to scale up and down as their business dictates&comma; making it a perfect technology match for their dynamic business model&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The timing of inContact&&num;8217&semi;s expansion is perfect&comma; as cloud-based&comma; or Software-as-a-Service &lpar;SaaS&rpar; offerings are rapidly growing in popularity across the customer service industry&period; According to industry analyst firm Gartner&comma; &&num;8220&semi;by 2013&comma; at least 75&percnt; of customer service centers will use some form of SaaS application as a part of the contact center solution&period;&&num;8221&semi;<sup>1<&sol;sup> Analyst firm Ovum has said that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;given the new investment philosophy&comma; a growing number of enterprises are looking towards hosted contact center services to reduce capital outlay and to access a wide range of technology options&period;&&num;8221&semi;<sup>2<&sol;sup><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jarman concluded&comma; &&num;8220&semi;We are excited to bring our leading edge cloud-based offering to the Philippines to enable customers to operate more efficiently&comma; optimize the cost and quality of every interaction&comma; create new pathways to profit&comma; and ensure ongoing business improvement and growth&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>About inContact<&sol;b><br &sol;>&NewLine;inContact &lpar;NASDAQ&colon; SAAS&rpar; helps call centers around the globe create profitable customer experiences through its powerful portfolio of cloud-based call center software solutions&period; The company&&num;8217&semi;s services and solutions enable call centers to operate more efficiently&comma; optimize the cost and quality of every customer interaction&comma; create new pathways to profit and ensure ongoing customer-centric business improvement and growth&period; To learn more&comma; visit <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;incontact&period;com" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">www&period;inContact&period;com<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Safe Harbor Statement&colon;<&sol;b> The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for forward-looking information made on the Company&&num;8217&semi;s behalf&period; All statements&comma; other than statements of historical facts which address the Company&&num;8217&semi;s expectations of sources of capital or which express the Company&&num;8217&semi;s expectation for the future with respect to financial performance or operating strategies&comma; can be identified as forward-looking statements&period; Such statements made by the Company are based on knowledge of the environment in which it operates&comma; but because of the factors previously listed&comma; as well as other factors beyond the control of the Company&comma; actual results may differ materially from the expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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