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eZuce Expands Sales and Marketing Team

2012-05-08T13:50:19Z

Andover, MA. May 8, 2012— eZuce Inc., the leading provider of open unified communications for enterprise social business and collaboration, today announced that they’ve expanded their sales and marketing team with two senior new hires, reflecting the substantial growth of the company as more companies move their communications to the cloud. The new hires come as part of an overall expansion, which includes adding more staff and signing new partners to sell the company’s industry-leading suite of open communication tools.

John Drolet is the new VP of Channel Operations for eZuce Inc. In his role John will be focused on working with the various channel partners in the EZ Partner Community. Mr. Drolet has over 28 years’ experience in the Communications Industry. He has led small and large organizations in their go to market effort, helping design and implement successful sales programs through direct, indirect and carrier channels, recruit and foster team members and help to drive early stage revenue.

His background ranges from helping to run a $23 million dollar VAR in New England (USTeleCenters) to helping to form and grow several prominent IP telephony companies. This includes NBX acquired by 3com Corporation, Citel Technologies, Ascendent systems acquired by RIM and Aastra USA. At Aastra he built a team which introduced a full line of Open Standard IP telephony products to the market which helped to place Aastra among the industry leaders in the market segment.

Christina Inge joins eZuce as the Senior Director of Marketing. Ms. Inge has over 14 years’ experience in marketing, with a strong focus on content and digital media. She’s served in roles of increasing responsibility at a variety of technology organizations, including Reed Elsevier, where she was a research analyst covering the engineering sector, and Spinwave Systems, where she spearheaded all lead generation. A strong believer in the role of marketing within tech companies as a driver of education, she’s shown strong leadership in social media, search, community-building, and web content. She’s served for many years on the board of the American Marketing Association, Boston, as well as spearheading many educational efforts for the Boston tech community. Christina was awarded the Social Media Stars Award for her work in online community-building, as well as winning the first-ever FutureM Future of Marketing challenge.

“We’re very happy to welcome John and Christina to the team. They bring a lot of value and are great individuals to help grow the eZuce brand. As we’re seeing more and more of our customers seek to grow into being a social enterprise, we really need to walk the walk ourselves,” says Martin Steinmann, founder and CEO of eZuce. “We’re looking forward to moving into a new era of growing collaboration with our customers, service, and community, and expanding our team is the first step in this exciting expansion.”

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. eZuce counts as its customers some of the largest and innovativeseveral Fortune 500 companies as well as leading, system integrators, and partners. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

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Christina Inge

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.296.1005 x2073

cinge@ezuce.com

eZuce openUC V4.6 Announced at 2012 sipX CoLab User Conference

2012-03-19T19:05:37Z

Newburyport, MA. March 19, 2012— eZuce Inc, the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, previewed the new feature set of eZuce openUC V4.6 to attendees of the 2012 sipX CoLab User Conference. The 2012 sipX CoLab is its inaugural annual conference which united a large delegate of users from the SIPfoundry open source community, eZuce openUC customers, eZuce Value Added Resellers and System Integrators, and Technology Solution Partners. The 2012 sipX CoLab User Conference featured open source user community members from the United States, Colombia, Mexico, Germany, Turkey, Romania, India, Australia, and Philippines.

“It was a great experience and amazing to meet with our user community; listen to them talking about eZuce openUC solutions, sharing examples of how they use it, explaining why it works and how it solves their specific problems, and having our eZuce team together to get more customer exposure and feedback which we can integrate into our product roadmap planning.”

Martin Steinmann, CEO and Co-Founder, eZuce Inc.

The 2012 sipX CoLab Conference, hosted on campus by SIPfoundry Higher Education Program Member Colorado State University, included users from Red Hat, Vail Resorts, Easter Seals/Goodwill, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Cedarville University, Colorado School of Mines, University of Texas, Bidda, Adtran, and other Enterprises. Both live and virtual attendees were introduced to eZuce openUC V4.6 through interactive breakout sessions, panel discussions, live product demos, along with a full day eZuce Technical Training class and Engineering Hackfest to promote collaboration within the open source user community.

“I’m impressed with the changes in openUC V4.6 as I feel it addresses the scalability and usability requirements we have today; and it was good to rub elbows with the people here from the user community to learn more about their experiences.”

Glenn Johnson, CTO, Stalwart

The eZuce Engineering and Development Team have collaborated closely with the SIPfoundry and openUC user community to identify key requirements and translate these into usable product features and enhancements for eZuce openUC V4.6 including:

openACD Contact Center which is a scalable contact center solution ideal for distributed systems with skills based routing and call queue management
Virtualization of call control capabilities to improve overall system performance within distributed environments
Web Client third party call controller including an Instant Messaging client to enable social communication
Cloud deployment featuring eZuce’s Hybrid Virtual Architecture designed to optimize media services while improving availability, scalability, and system performance
Security and integration capabilities to deliver a better user experience through single sign on (SSO), user profiles, social graphs, activity streams, and presence enabled communications

“I was looking at this from a programmer’s perspective to determine how we can best leverage APIs and the user interfaces- meeting with the eZuce development team at the Hackfest and attending the Technical Training Class has been very helpful to understand how we can modify APIs and most importantly contribute back to the community.”

Miguel Gonzalez, Programming Manager, PATLive

In addition the 2012 SIPfoundry Steering Committee was announced at the sipX CoLab Conference as these individuals were nominated by their peers in the SIPfoundry Community to head the planning efforts for next year’s conference. The Steering Committee members include: Todd Hodgen of Misiu Systems, Tony Graziano of MyIT Department, Kyle Haefner of Colorado State University, and Matt White of Summit Technology.

For complete details and highlights from the 2012 sipX-CoLab Conference you can visit http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipx-colab

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce through our online social networking communities:

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David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.296.1005 x2016

dgrazio@ezuce.com

eZuce Has Partners Talking Up Open Source UC Software

2012-03-16T13:07:45Z

Check out the recent article which appeared in CRN Magazine highlighting the accomplishments we've made with our EZ Partner Program working with Secura Technologies as our Channel Enablement Partner

http://www.crn.com/news/networking/232602507/ezuce-has-partners-talking-up-open-source-uc-software.htm;jsessionid=GZiliwN51o7aYXnLagMIYg**.ecappj02?cid=rssFeed

eZuce Co-Founder Recognized as One of CRN's 2012 Channel Chiefs

2012-03-15T19:27:33Z

Newburyport, MA. March 15, 2012— Today eZuce Inc, the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, announced that Jerry Stabile, COO and Co-Founder, has been named one of CRN's 2012 Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT industry recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within their organization, while evangelizing and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT Industry. For the ninth consecutive year, Channel Chiefs were selected by the CRN editorial team based on channel experience, program innovations, channel-driven revenue, and public support for the importance of IT Channel Sales.

“We collaborate closely with our channel partners to provide them with the necessary programs, tools and resources they need to represent eZuce in the marketplace and deliver our openUC solutions to Enterprises,” said Jerry Stabile, COO and Co-Founder of eZuce Inc. “This recognition from CRN is a proof point that we have taken the proper steps to grow our EZ Partner Community and enhance our Partner Program to help our partners achieve successes in growing their business profitably with eZuce.”

The eZuce EZ Partner Program has been designed to enable partners to expand their market share by delivering a scalable, cost-effective, and advanced open unified communications solution that is fully interoperable and architected to meet the needs of today’s Enterprise. eZuce has created customized programs featuring EZ Elite, EZ Pro, and EZ Expert offerings that align to partner’s business requirements and enable them to enhance their portfolio by leveraging professional services to increase shareholder value to existing customers. Our partnering philosophy epitomizes the way customers prefer to do business and our programs reflect the requirements of our collective business partners to strengthen their market position.

"The 2012 Channel Chiefs list recognizes vendor executives dedicated to driving channel programs in the IT marketplace," said Kelley Damore, vice president, editorial director for UBM Channel. "Our annual Channel Chiefs issue is a must-read for IT solution providers evaluating new vendors or looking to expand solution offerings. These are the people, the products and the programs that any savvy solution provider needs to know. We congratulate this year's Channel Chiefs for their stellar record of business innovation and applaud them for their continued dedication to the partner community."

Selected by CRN's editorial staff, the 2012 Channel Chiefs list is featured in the February issue of CRN Magazine and is available online at http://www.crn.com/channel-chiefs/cc2012.htm

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

About UBM Channel

UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at http://www.ubmchannel.com

UBM plc UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries is organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.ubm.com

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David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.296.1005 x2016

dgrazio@ezuce.com

eZuce Introduces Customer Portal

2011-10-31T13:33:31Z

Newburyport, MA. November 1, 2011— eZuce Inc., the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, today announced the official launch of the eZuce Customer Portal. The eZuce Customer Portal is an online collaboration resource that enables openUC^TM users to acquire valuable product knowledge, increase their unified communications skills, and network within the openUC user community to share best practices and insights gained from their individual user experiences.

The eZuce openUC user community has expanded significantly over the past year and now includes thousands of users worldwide since the initial launch of openUC V4.2 in August 2010. With the introduction of eZuce openUC V4.4 in April 2011 users now have access to technology innovations that deliver business application integration such as Microsoft Outlook 2010 Add-in. The eZuce openUC user community boasts several Enterprise customers that have successfully migrated to the eZuce open communications platform including Colorado State University, Cedarville University, Charles River Development, Timco Aerosystems, and Sterling National Bank.

The eZuce Customer Portal provide openUC users with the opportunity to enhance communications capabilities, improve system functionality, and expand their unified communications expertise by leveraging key resources and tools including fast and easy access to

Online Product Knowledge featuring user administration guides, white papers, brochures, and application notes
eZuce openUC updates including beta programs, newsletters, industry articles, online communities, and social media feeds
eZuce Training focused on technical best practices, tips and techniques, along with new technology innovations
User Blog to post comments and feedback on open communications and other related topics to maximize user experiences
Customer Forum to collaborate with openUC users via discussion threads on key subject matters that impact overall business performance to help improve productivity and lower costs
Support Portal to submit new technical support cases and check the current status on existing issues raised by users for troubleshooting and quick resolution

“With the introduction of our eZuce Customer Portal we are committed to delivering the best communications experience and building social media communities for our users by providing them with productivity tools and a collaborative environment in which members of the openUC user community benefit directly through ongoing contributions and feedback.”

Jerry Stabile, COO and Co-Founder, eZuce Inc.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.296.1005 x2016

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

SIPfoundry Announces Inaugural Open Source User Conference

2011-10-20T15:03:23Z

Newburyport, MA. October 25, 2011— SIPfoundry, the leading collaborative open source community dedicated to unified communications, announced today their first inaugural users conference known as the sipX-CoLabwill be held on March 5, 2012 followed by sipXecs technical training March 6^th at The Lorey Student Center in Fort Collins, CO. Colorado State University, founding member of the SIPfoundry Higher Education Program, will host the sipX-CoLab conference at their campus facility to further illustrate the benefits of sipXecs^TM open communications given their own user experiences.

The sipX-CoLab conference is available to all users- sipXecs users, developers, IT consultants and integrators, technology business leaders, VARS, resellers, solution providers, entrepreneurs, EDU IT professionals and fans of open source communications- within the SIPfoundry open source community delivering a collaborative environment and interactive information exchange for users to share their sipXecs^TM open source experiences, expand their product knowledge and skills, and network with business partners providing technology solutions and services.

The sipX-CoLab will focus on strengthening the sipXecs solution; encourage forward thinking and increase visibility and use of sipXecs as the preferred open communications solution for Enterprises. sipXecs is the largest open source effort around to build a software application for unified communications using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and is the only solution that can accommodate large corporate deployments with several branch offices and virtual workforces.

The sipX-CoLab features several key sponsors dedicated to supporting the sipXecs open source development effort including:

eZucedelivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises and serves as the official commercial entity and largest contributor to the sipXecs open source development project
American Airlinesis a founding member of the global oneworld® Alliance, which enables member airlines to offer its customers more services and benefits than any member airline can provide individually with nearly 700 destinations in over 150 countries, with 8,500 daily departures
Colorado State Universityis one of our nation's leading research universities with world-class research in infectious disease, atmospheric science, clean energy technologies, and environmental science
AudioCodesdesigns, manufactures and sells advanced Voice over IP and converged VoIP and Data networking products and applications to Service Providers and Enterprises
Innovational IP Solutionsis a Washington State based high technology company specializing in the development of low Total Cost of Ownership Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions for all size organization

“The sipX-CoLab is a great opportunity for SIPfoundry community members to collaborate and share ideas, experiences, and provide recommendations for future product enhancements. SIPfoundry and eZuce are committed to advancing the open source development effort to ensure our customers receive the best product and support services to satisfy their communication requirements.”

Martin Steinmann, CEO and Co-Founder, eZuce Inc.

The sipX-CoLab will highlight major technology innovations and advancements available in the sipXecs solution enabling open communications and collaboration. Attendees can participate and interact with featured speakers and discussion leaders through breakout sessions, panel discussions and training classes. The sipX-CoLab agendafeatures topics that address many of today’s industry initiatives and emerging communications innovations including

Deployment Best Practices and Architecture Discussion
Cloud Deployment / Moving into the Cloud
FreeSwitch Modding
Instant Messaging
OpenACD Call Center Solutions

For complete details on the sipX-CoLab you can view the conference website by visiting http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipx-colab

About SIPfoundry

SIPfoundry, the leading collaborative open source community dedicated to unified communications and founded in 2004 by Dr. Martin Steinmann and Jerry Stabile as a not-for-profit organization, promotes and advances Session Initiation protocol (SIP)-related open source projects. eZuce Inc., established in 2010 by the creators of SIPfoundry, is the commercial entity that delivers open enterprise communications solutions and support based on the standards established by the SIPfoundry community. For more information about SIPfoundry please visit our Web site at www.sipfoundry.org

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.296.1005 x2016

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

eZuce Inc. Named a 2011 CRN Emerging Technology Vendor

2011-08-22T12:16:57Z

eZuce Inc., the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, today announced it has been selected by Everything Channel as a 2011 CRN Emerging Technology Vendor. The annual list features the most innovative vendors who not only deliver technology that is easy to use, but can generate the high margins solution providers require. eZuce Inc. was selected by CRN as an emerging technology vendor given our successful completion of customer deployments totaling more than 30,000 seats worldwide of openUC^TMsoftware in the previous 9 months. In addition, eZuce has introduced new technology innovations within openUC Enterprise V4.4 that enhance the user experience by delivering full unified communications and telephony support for email messaging platforms including Microsoft Outlook 2010.

eZuce’s openUC^TMenterprise software delivers a fully functional and interoperable enterprise communications solution integrating voice, video, instant messaging, presence, conferencing, collaboration, unified messaging, and mobility capabilities implemented in native SIP to provide an improved user experience.

The eZuce EZ Partner Program delivers customized tools, resources, and support for partners that focus on the enterprise marketplace, offer consulting services to deliver technology and solution recommendations, along with value-added service offerings to provide end-to-end technical support and implementation services.

“Enabling customers with the tools and strategies to solve real business problems has always been a priority to solution providers. As the market has grown increasingly competitive, so too has the demand for innovative, channel-friendly technologies,” said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. “From the cloud to semantic technology, this year’s list of Emerging Technology Vendors highlights the emphasis on innovation and ease of use that has been the hallmark of any successful channel offering.”

The vendors that make up the CRN Emerging Technology Vendor list were founded in 2005 or later, have revenue under $1 billion and have an active U.S. channel strategy. Final selection to the Emerging Technology Vendor list was made by the CRN editorial team after a review of submitted information. To view a sample of the list and read the editorial accompaniment visit www.CRN.com.

“eZuce is pleased to be recognized by CRN Magazine for our technology advancements in the unified communications marketplace. We have successfully enabled enterprises to transition from their legacy IP PBX systems to the eZuce openUC platform resulting in lower communication costs and an enhanced user experience enabling reliable social business and collaboration.”

David Grazio, VP of Product Marketing, eZuce Inc.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

About Everything Channel

Everything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBMcompany. To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/everythingchnl.

About UBM plc

UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world’s buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

For more information, go to www.ubm.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

Scott Regan

Everything Channel

+1.508.416.1186

scott.regan@ec.ubm.com

Cedarville University Branches Into VoIP

2011-07-14T17:23:06Z

This article appears in the June issue of Internet Telephony Magazine, written By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, IP Communications Magazines

It’s a familiar refrain: An organization has an existing Nortel phone switch that’s nearing end of life and needs to decide where to turn. For Cedarville University, the answer was an open source solution from eZuce.

Dave Rotman, associate vice president of technology at the Christian college in southwestern Ohio, says the school first considered adding VoIP to its existing Nortel switch. It received an informal comment from its Nortel representative that the cost of doing so would be $100,000 more than it expected. The university didn’t want to sink that kind of money into a switch it got in 1992 and was buying parts off eBay (News Alert)to maintain, especially given the state that Nortel was in at the time. So it started looking for alternative VoIP solutions that would put it on a path to offer more advanced functionality to users.

Rotman and his colleagues quickly became intrigued with the idea of using an open source solution, which wouldn’t require Cedarville University to pay license fees “over and over,” he says. They looked at various solutions on this front and settled on eZuce’s sipXecs system.

“We felt like the sipXecs product was a little more contemporary,” he says. “It’s a pure SIP architecture.”

The server sets up the call, he adds, but it doesn’t stay in line for the call, so the server doesn’t get overloaded with voice traffic, Rotman says. That means the university saves on server resources.

What’s more, the solution provides users at the university with the unified communications functionality Rotman and his colleagues had been seeking. For example, end users can access a web interface to configure their own phones rather than relying on IT staff to do the job. And, down the road, the school expects to introduce presence management.

As of late April there were four buildings and 140 phones – mostly Polycom’s HD-based IP 560 models – being served by the sipXecs system, which came into service at the university in September 2010. They started with 40 phones on the system and expect to add 30 phones a month for the next couple years. Ultimately, the new switch will serve between 1,200 and 1,300 endpoints at 40 buildings, including a new academic site to open next year.

The system consists of two blade servers in a failover arrangement, although voicemail is only on one of the two servers. Analog gateways help to support fax machines, auto dialers and other legacy gear. The university also has a gateway that connects to its Nortel PBX (News - Alert)to allow for the phased implementation of the new eZuce solution; Ronco Communications helped Cedarville University with that integration.

To help get university staff comfortable with the new solution, eZuce put a staffer on site for a couple of days, and both eZuce and Ronco trained Cedarville University staff on how to manage and use the system.

“The expert advice, guidance, and recommendations provided during the installation process were excellent,” says Rotman. “Cedarville staff members were able to learn how to manage the sipXecs installation, deploy handsets, interface to analog devices, and perform other duties.”

He adds that university users appreciate the improved sound quality on voice calls as a result of the HD phones, and they enjoy the ability to manage voice mail, access messages through WAV (News - Alert)file attachments in e-mail, process voicemail via a web page, and use the telephone handset to access voicemail.

As discussed in the October issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY, eZuce is a commercial enterprise established by the men behind SIPfoundry. The company delivers all-software-based telephony solutions akin to what Microsoft (News Alert)provides. The twist is that the eZuce solution offer the added benefit of being open source and the go-to-market will be 100 percent indirect.

Martin Steinmann, eZuce’s co-founder and president, late last year commented that the company delivers the first open software UC solution to hit the core of the enterprise market. Asterisk was in the SMB market for a long time, and analysts in 2008 said open source had reached about 18 percent share of the SMB market, he noted.

“We are now taking this model into the core of the enterprise market,” he says. “We continue where Asterisk left off. I think we are the only credible successor to an open source product in the broader UC market.”

The privately owned company, headquartered in Newburyport, Mass., was founded in February by Steinmann and Jerry Stabile.

“eZuce is new company, but it’s not your typical startup,” said Steinmann. “We are new, but we start out with a mature product, the product that is in the market, that is in the channel, that is referenceable, that is known to work, and is a really serious solution that competes in the mid enterprise market.”

The idea is to deliver and support a complete solution that replaces legacy PBXs like Nortel CS-1000s, Meridian-1, Aura products and Cisco (News Alert)CallManager as well as other solutions on the market, he explained.

“We think the software model and open source economics really unhinge the incumbents’ model,” says Steinmann. “I’ve been inside Nortel. I’ve run the P&L. I know how it looks, and the price differential between what Microsoft introduced based on a software model. And that gets compounded as you add the open source economics into this. [So it] is so vastly different from the current established pricing model in this PBX market that the P&Ls of incumbent vendors just can’t compress to that level.

“And then we deliver what customers and partners really want,” he continues, “and that is an IT application, communications as service, and the solution that comes in at a significantly lower cost.”

eZuce Announces New Online Support For EZ Partner Community

2011-06-14T18:26:39Z

Newburyport, MA. June 7, 2011— eZuce, the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, today unveiled its new EZ Partner Portal- an online partner collaboration resource now available to all authorized EZ Partners.

The eZuce EZ Partner Portal addresses the needs of its business partners by providing a collaboration and information sharing online community, complete with the latest eZuce and partner updates, executive thought leadership articles, training modules and certifications, press releases, partner events and a repository for all strategic sales, marketing, and technical documentation. The partner portal will also enable direct collaboration amongst eZuce business partners to accelerate customer adoption of eZuce openUC solutions thus building a solid network of successful business partners.

Jerry Stabile, COO and Co-Founder of eZuce states: “This valuable resource for our EZ Partner community will give our business partners access to real time documents empowering them to accelerate sales, improve deal closure rate and provide higher service levels to their customers when selling the openUC solution, generating higher revenues and profitability.”

eZuce’s EZ Partner Portal is designed to act as a virtual eZuce team member available 24x7x365, is easy to navigate, and delivers an abundance of information specific to the eZuce openUC solution as well as social business and unified communications in general. In addition, the portal gives access to online, self-paced partner training materials ensuring partners can earn their eZuce openUC certifications, and easily position themselves to sell and support eZuce solutions.

The EZ Partner Portal spotlights current updates and partner activities, imparting thought leadership on the partner blog and allowing collaboration through comments via the partner forum. With quick sign on, partners may also view recent press releases, upcoming events, new product information, customer case studies, or current promotions that eZuce is offering.

The EZ eZuce Partner Portal will host weekly polls and offer an "Ask the Team" Q&A section that will be monitored by the eZuce team to address high priority customer support questions. Furthermore, partners will have their own fully customizable web page, which can be updated at any time to include contact information and complete, company profile details, encouraging ongoing partner collaboration.

“The EZ Partner Portal will enable our sales, technical, and marketing teams to focus on those market opportunities that are a good fit for eZuce openUC solutions so we can successfully introduce new and affordable open communications to our customers.”

John Wrona, Executive VP of Sales and Marketing, Ronco Communications and Electronics Inc.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

eZuce Expands European Presence with IANT Strategic Partnership

2011-05-17T12:26:29Z

Newburyport, MA. May 17, 2011— eZuce, the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, announces its expansion of the EZ Elite Partnership Program in Europe with the addition of IANT, based in Wolfenbüttel Germany. IANT is now authorized to deliver eZuce open communications to enterprises within the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, France and South Africa. In addition IANT will provide support and professional services associated with eZuce Services on a worldwide basis.

The eZuce EZ Partner Programaddresses the needs of its business partners by providing open communications solutions along with support programs, tools, and resources designed to address the communication and social business needs of mid to large enterprises. As the eZuce EZ partner community expands globally, IANT joins the ranks of fellow EZ partners Karel Electronicsand eSoftieswithin the EMEA region and enables eZuce strategic go-to-market positioning within Europe for further growth and expansion.

Enterprises can leverage the basic configuration of the IANT VoIP telephone system and access a portfolio of features including full telephony support ranging from twenty to several thousand users. Each user can manage key functions independently via an intuitive web interface including:

Voicemail
Call Forwarding
Conferences

“We are excited to offer eZuce open communications as part of our VoIP portfolio as now enterprises can enjoy the benefits of a flexible, scalable, and cost effective IP PBX replacement system that can be easily managed and maintained by internal IT staff freeing up time and resources resulting in increased productivity.“

Diederich Wermser, General Manager, IANT

IANT provides managed conference rooms and timed call forwardings as part of the basic configuration along with upgrading the IANT VoIP Block telephone system to integrate supplemental functions including Automatic Call Distribution, Fax Services, Directory Service Integration, Home Office Integration and Virtual Delivery.

“This significant partnership with IANT provides our openUC solution an introduction to leading European enterprises seeking a best in class IP PBX replacement solution. The addition of IANT will also help strengthen our EZ Elite partner community in Europe allowing us to support global enterprises that have demanding unified communication and social business collaboration requirements.”

David Grazio, VP of Product Marketing, eZuce Inc.

About IANT

IANT GmbH provides flexible and scalable telephone systems based on open source software. We adapt to the individual demands of enterprises and provide valuable VoIP services such as service agreements, customer-specific software developments and consulting. With our competencies in the area of open source VoIP telephone systems we are equipped to provide priority support to enterprises leveraging our extensive knowledge and real world experiences. For more information about IANT please visit our Web site at www.iant.de

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

Jan Schumacher

IANT

+49 5331 900989 450

jan.schumacher@iant.de

eZuce Expands Global Presence with New EZ Expert Partnerships

2011-05-16T17:32:25Z

Newburyport, MA. May 16, 2011— eZuce, the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, announced it’s expanding relationships in Asia with its newest EZ Expert Partner, eSolia, an IT Management firm based in Tokyo, Japan. The eZuce EZ Partner Program addresses the needs of its business partners by providing open communications solutions along with support programs, tools, and resources designed to address the communication and social business needs of mid to large enterprises.

eSolia has been providing high-quality business-focused consulting, project and outsourcing services since 1999, to a variety of blue-chip foreign and Japanese organizations in Japan, the Asia Pacific region and any location abroad. eSolia is a globally-minded organization that focuses on the challenges of multi-cultural, multi-language environments, and has a successful track record in handling complex high-pressure projects.

Rick Cogley, CEO of eSolia states: “We started testing sipXecs as a possible future alternative, and found it to have everything we needed and wanted, and as a nice bonus to be rock solid, so we decided to implement it for our own office and pursue a partnership with eZuce for the Japan territory.”

eZuce’s EZ Expert Partner Program is designed for partners that have a strong focus in the SMB marketplace and are interested in an open source model with compelling economics. EZ Expert Partners such as eSolia have existing customers with requirements for unified communication solutions and have the ability to position open source technology with its scalable, standards-based approach that minimizes risk and delivers IT investment protection.

Martin Steinmann, CEO and Co-Founder of eZuce Inc.: “We welcome eSolia to the EZ Expert partner community and are very excited about eSolia’s ability to bring the benefits of OpenUC to the Japanese Market.”

eZuce is the first provider of open source based social business and unified communications designed to address the challenges and emerging communications requirements of today’s enterprises. eZuce’s openUC^TM enterprise software delivers a fully functional and interoperable enterprise communications solution integrating voice, video, instant messaging, presence, conferencing, collaboration, unified messaging, and mobility capabilities implemented in native SIP to provide an improved user experience.

eZuce’s growing community of certified EZ Expert partners also includes eSofties Solutions Limited, one of Nigeria’s leading providers of robust, scalable and versatile enterprise software solutions for government and private industry. eSofties provides qualitative solutions to states governments, higher education institutions and financial institutions across Nigeria and continues to grow in the competitive information technology market by offering broad-based experience; a stable, dedicated, andknowledgeable staff; and a commitment to finding innovative and cost effective solutions to address customers’ technology and business needs.

Nweike Onwuyali, CEO and Founder of Esofties Solutions affirms: “eZuce’s openUC^TM is a Super-Charged alternative to any UC solution available and in addition brings along over seven years of Open Source community interaction”

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

eZuce Inc. Delivers Microsoft Outlook Integration for openUC Enterprise

2011-04-25T22:15:12Z

Newburyport, MA. April 20, 2011 – eZuce Inc., the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, today announces Microsoft Outlook 2010 integration now available for eZuce openUC^TMVersion 4.4. eZuce openUC^TM enterprise provides an open alternative to the Microsoft platform enabling customers to experience advanced unified communications functionality for a fraction of the cost compared to traditional IP PBX systems.

The eZuce Outlook integration solution unlocks all the unified communications capabilities of Outlook 2010 without requiring the use of a Microsoft server backend. Customers can experience the full unified communications experience for presence, instant messaging, unified messaging and voicemail, video, and conferencing leveraging email solutions from different vendors including Google Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Open-Xchange, or other compatible email platforms.

eZuce openUC^TM software delivers flexibility to enterprises that have standardized on Microsoft as well as almost any other messaging platform as the eZuce openUC solution can integrate within different IT environments leveraging its SIP Service Oriented Architecture(SSOA). With eZuce open communications enterprises can benefit from best of breed technologies and repurpose IT investments as the eZuce platform is vendor agnostic, resulting in significant cost savings in comparison to proprietary systems such as Microsoft’s “walled garden approach”, which limits user options.

eZuce openUC^TM Enterprise V4.4 unlocks several advanced features and capabilities within Microsoft Outlook 2010 including:

Presence Status - loads Avatar images and enables you to set your presence status manually or create customized presence messages, with the ability to display your current phone status as unified presence
Instant presence – displays presence for senders of email or contacts and allows immediate initiation of different communications modes, including email, call, video and chat
Phonebook integration – automated synchronization of the global address list and user phone books with full contact details and avatars
Voicemail Integration- manages voicemail messages from Outlook using a unified inbox and allows to easily listen to your messages directly from Outlook wherever you’re working
Extended Calling Features- shows missed calls including name of the caller, click to call functionality, lists alternate contact information with reverse phone lookup, and marks contacts as favorites for quick lookup
Call Transfer- highlights the name of contacts or anyone in your list for easy connections every time
Scheduling/Calendar- initiates new conference calls and create invites in Outlook with embedded links to the conference line including automatic soft phone launch, and manage your conference calls
Instant Messaging Integration- set your IM status, check status of contacts with the ability to email, chat, or call contacts using a single click
Conferencing- flexibility to manage your personal conference bridge by transferring contacts into your bridge, isolate and disconnect specified contacts, and managing your conferences by interacting with audio, mute or unmute, and isolate audio

The eZuce Outlook integration does not require a softphone but instead offers extended flexibility to pair with the user’s preferred device, including a desk phone, smart or mobile phone, or a softphone.

“eZuce openUC enables enterprises to readily integrate with Microsoft Outlook 2010 so users can easily communicate and collaborate resulting in improved employee productivity while lowering overall operational costs and delivering the best available user experience.” Martin Steinmann, CEO and Co-Founder, eZuce Inc.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

eZuce Announces openUC Enterprise Software Version 4.4

2011-04-20T21:01:17Z

Newburyport, MA. April 21, 2010 — eZuce Inc., the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, has released eZuce openUC^TM Enterprise Software V4.4 which is now available to customers through authorized eZuce partners. eZuce openUC^TM Enterprise V4.4 enhances the user experience by delivering full unified communications and telephony support for email messaging platforms including Microsoft Outlook 2010.

eZuce introduced openUC enterprisein 2010 as the commercial version and entity supporting the sipXecs open source project which initiated with the founding of SIPfoundry in 2004 by eZuce co-founders Martin Steinmann and Jerry Stabile. eZuce openUC is designed for mid to large enterprises with existing IP PBX systems looking to cost-effectively upgrade to next generation unified communications technology, have growing mobility needs, and demanding IT environments requiring high system availability and reliable disaster recovery capabilities.

eZuce openUC EnterpriseV4.4 provides enterprises with the best overall user experience by leveraging eZuce technology innovations and communication enhancements including:

SIP Service Oriented Architecture (SSOA)
Directory Server and LDAP Integration including contacts, corporate address book and security groups
Improvements to the Web Services API (SOAP / REST)
G.729 codec support
T.38 FAX server support for FAX to email
Authorization code support
TLS support for phones including NAT traversal for remote workers
Improved DID assignment
Bria 3.1 client support
Polycom IP 5000 support
Support for Google Chrome browser

“eZuce openUC V4.4 is the next generation open software platform that enterprises can readily adopt and integrate into their existing IT environments providing a better user experience, proven performance, and higher return on investment. We’re pleased to deliver an open alternative to the traditional IP PBX system with more advanced features at a price enterprises can easily afford.”

Jerry Stabile, COO and Co-Founder, eZuce Inc.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

eZuce Inc. Expands Market Presence Through Strategic Investments

2011-04-13T23:22:28Z

Newburyport, Massachusetts. April 14, 2011 — eZuce Inc. is expanding its operations worldwide given recent contributions from key investors totaling $1.9 Million. eZuce is the leading provider of open unified communications to enterprise customers delivering advanced performance with compelling economics resulting in IT investment protection while lowering total cost of ownership. eZuce is represented globally by its growing partner community which delivers eZuce openUC enterprise software and support services to legacy IP PBX customers interested in migrating to a standards-based, scalable, and reliable platform featuring full unified communications capabilities.

eZuce officially launched the EZ Partner Program in October 2010establishing business partnerships with leading System Integrators and Value Added Resellers including Ronco Communications and Electronics Inc., Copper State Communications, Karel Electronics, Innovational IP Solutions, and TechTele. eZuce’s go-to-market strategy, employing an indirect business model, enables its channel partners to offer managed services including cloud hosting models which maximizes their profit margins and services revenue. eZuce EZ partners deliver Social Business integration through communications enabling business applications and processes ensuring customers can communicate and collaborate more effectively.

Today eZuce has empowered enterprises by upgrading to the eZuce openUC^TM platform resulting in dramatic cost savings for the customer along with delivering an enhanced user experience for their customers, business partners, and internal constituents. Several leading higher educational institutions including Colorado State University, Cedarville University, and Colorado School of Minesare enjoying the benefits of conversion to the eZuce openUC platform. Through the SIPfoundry Higher Education Program, of which eZuce is the supporting commercial entity, reduced costs and next generation unified communications are the immediate benefits achieved for universities, colleges and school districts by leveraging eZuce open communications.

“eZuce is well positioned to continue our expansion within the enterprise marketplace given the investments we’ve received from our strategic partners. We will continue to work with our channel community and solution partners to provide the best unified communications experience and make reliable social business and collaboration a reality for all users.”

Martin Steinmann, CEO and Co-Founder, eZuce Inc.

The eZuce team includes members within the North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regions covering all major functional areas and business operations including sales, marketing, finance, HR, technical support, development, QA testing, along with web design and support services. eZuce was recently recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as one of the Need to Know Emerging VoIP and UC vendors.

eZuce is co-hosting a social business symposium series with Ronco Communications and Electronics Inc. and AudioCodesto educate and demonstrate to enterprises the power of an open communications platform. In addition, eZuce is a corporate member of the ACUTA organization servicing the needs of higher educational institutions and recently exhibited at the 2011 ACUTA Spring Conferencealong with eZuce EZ Elite Partner, Ronco Communications and Electronics Inc.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

eZuce Inc. Announces New Member of Executive Management Team

2011-04-11T15:54:08Z

Newburyport, MA. April 11, 2011 – eZuce Inc., the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, today announced the addition of Lih-Shyng Tzeng as Vice President of Engineering and Technical Support. Lih will have responsibility for the eZuce openUC product development and engineering teams along with managing the technical support services organization. In addition, Mr. Tzeng will oversee the Quality Assurance operations as well as directing the ongoing OEM relationship with Karel Electronics.

Prior to joining eZuce Inc., Lih was Vice President of Engineering at Camiant, a leading provider of policy control solutions that empower broadband service providers to dynamically manage their networks, ensuring efficient and high quality delivery of broadband data services, IP based communication services and rich media content. During his role at Camiant Lih managed the development of successful carrier-grade products deployed in many Tier 1 mobile broadband and cable operators worldwide including Verizon, Vodafone, Sprint, Comcast and Cox Communications.

Lih also successfully managed the development efforts of the sipXecs open-source SIP project as VP of Engineering at Bluesocket and the former Pingtel Corporation. He was successful in building from scratch a very capable research and development center in Nanjing, China, employing 60 team members along with managing large, geographically distributed offshore teams at several public companies and startups.

“I’m pleased to join the eZuce team as I believe we have the technological innovations, open source experience, and strategic partnerships that will empower enterprises to truly benefit from our flexible, scalable, and cost effective solutions while realizing the best user experience for their organization.”

Lih-Shyng Tzeng, Vice President of Engineering and Technical Support, eZuce Inc.

eZuce Inc. also announces two additions to its sales and operation teams. John Lepore joins as Eastern Regional Sales Manager collaborating with eZuce EZ Elite partner Ronco Communications and Electronics Inc. John was most recently at Access Northeast, the largest privately held Data Center Managed Services Provider in New England. In addition, Cheryl LaGreca joins as Operations Manager and will be responsible for overseeing the finance, human resources, and operational components of the eZuce EZ Partner Program.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

eZuce Inc. Introduces Risk Free Trial Program

2011-04-05T16:26:04Z

Newburyport, MA. April 5, 2011 – eZuce Inc., the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market enabling social business and collaboration, has implemented a risk free trial program for its eZuce openUC^TM software. The eZuce risk free trial program is available to any new customers or qualified prospects interested in evaluating its open unified communications platform for their internal use.

eZuce openUC^TM enterprise software enables enterprises to upgrade their legacy IP PBX system by introducing technology innovations that improve collaboration and communications between users resulting in an enhanced user experience. eZuce openUC software delivers tangible benefits to enterprises that positively impact capital and operating expenses including:

• Full unified communications functionality featuring voice, video, IM, chat, presence, conferencing, collaboration, social business, mobility, call center, and unified messaging

• Seamless integration within existing IP PBX systems resulting in IT investment protection, reduced total cost of ownership, and yielding a higher return on investment

• Enhanced functionality for business critical applications such as email (Google talk, Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra, Open-Xchange) to effectively manage communications

• Cost effective enterprise communications featuring all inclusive pricing, reduced support costs, and freedom of vendor choice

• Scalable, robust, and flexible architecture to accommodate demanding enterprise requirements with support for thousands of users across distributed environment

The eZuce risk free trial program is delivered exclusively by eZuce EZ Elite partner Ronco Communications and Electronics Inc. Enterprises can leverage the eZuce risk free trial program in three easy steps:

1. Submit a purchase order for eZuce openUC^TM licenses* along with any required hardware components

2. eZuce EZ Elite partner provides installation and support services for the risk free trial program

3. At the conclusion of the 60 days customers have the option to either:

Purchase eZuce openUC software and hardware components including a product credit from the original eZuce evaluation order
Return all products to their eZuce EZ Elite Partner for a full credit = $0 cost to the customer

* Maximum of 20 users allowed for eZuce risk free trial program

“The eZuce risk free trial program was developed to assist enterprises in their migration efforts by providing a cost effective solution that leverages current IT investments while introducing next generation communications technology.”

David Grazio, Vice President of Product Marketing, eZuce Inc.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

SIPfoundry Higher Education Program Expands Its Membership

2011-03-02T20:18:07Z

Newburyport, Massachusetts. March 3, 2011 — The SIPfoundry Higher Education Program has expanded its community with the recent addition of its newest member: Colorado School of Mines. The SIPfoundry Higher Education Program (HEP) is an ongoing initiative designed to bring lower costs and next generation unified communications to universities, colleges and school districts leveraging sipXecs open communications. As a proven replacement for legacy IP-PBX systems and as an open alternative to an all Microsoft infrastructure, the SIPfoundry sipXecs open platform brings a robust all software solution with a sophisticated user experience and compelling economics to the higher education community.

sipXecs^TM has strong appeal in the education marketplace with its extensive solution features and functionality including broad Instant Messaging (IM) client support with federation into public IM systems along with Windows, Mac, and Linux support. sipXecs^TM also easily integrates into fast evolving single sign-on (SSO) systems from a variety of vendors as well as enabling synchronization of contacts and address book between different applications, including mobile devices.

Colorado State University (CSU) and Cedarville University were the first full membersof the SIPfoundry Higher Education Program to transition from costly, limiting, legacy IP-PBXs to next generation open unified communications delivering a rich, connected experience for faculty, staff, students and alumni. As investing members, CSU and Cedarville represent the higher education community to drive the future direction and define the requirements for an open, interoperable communication solution.

The SIPfoundry Higher Education Program provides numerous benefits to investing institutional members including:

Readily available access to the sipXecs open source code
Expert advice on installing the software and integration within their IT environment
Timely software patches, enhancements, and upgrades for the sipXecs software
Direct input and feedback on the sipXecs product roadmap for future development efforts
Membership in the sipXecs Policy Committee (SPC) and sipXecs Technical Committee (STC)

“The SIPfoundry Community is pleased to welcome our newest program member, Colorado School of Mines, as they join our efforts in building a world class communications infrastructure that the education community can benefit from as well as contribute to the direction of our technology.”

Martin Steinmann, CEO and Co-Founder, eZuce Inc.

About Colorado School of Mines

Colorado School of Mines is a public research university devoted to engineering and applied science. It has the highest admissions standards of any public university in Colorado and among the highest of any public university in the U.S. Mines has distinguished itself by developing a curriculum and research program geared towards responsible stewardship of the earth and its resources. In addition to strong education and research programs in traditional fields of science and engineering, Mines is one of a very few institutions in the world having broad expertise in resource exploration, extraction, production and utilization. As such, Mines occupies a unique position among the world's institutions of higher education.

About SIPfoundry

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

eZuce Inc. Named to Everything Channel’s CRN “Need to Know” List for VoIP and UC

2011-02-22T18:46:01Z

Newburyport, MA. February 22, 2011 – eZuce Inc. the leading provider of open unified communications for the enterprise market, today announced that they have been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN “Need to Know” list for the Voice over IP Protocol and Unified Communications markets. A new monthly feature designed to highlight the key players in a growing market segment; eZuce Inc. was featured among only 60 top VARs and vendors. The “Need to Know” list for VoIP and UC can be viewed in the February 21st issue of CRN and as a slideshow on www.CRN.com.

eZuce is the leading provider of open source based unified communications designed to address social business and collaboration challenges and emerging communications requirements of today’s enterprises. eZuce’s openUC^TM enterprise software delivers a fully functional and interoperable enterprise communications solution integrating voice, video, instant messaging, presence, conferencing, collaboration, unified messaging, and mobility capabilities implemented in native SIP to provide an improved user experience.

“The VoIP “Need to Know” list is a comprehensive directory of the major players in the VoIP and UC market, making it easy for busy VARs to get in front of the right vendors and the right people in the IT landscape,” said Kelley Damore, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. “This list will help VARs navigate through the myriad of new VoIP and UC companies and technologies, and ultimately, find the right opportunities to help them grow their business.”

David Grazio, VP of Product Marketing, eZuce Inc.

About Everything Channel

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

Scott Regan

Everything Channel

Scott.Regan@ec.ubm.com

eZuce Delivers SIP Services Oriented Architecture For Agile and Scalable Communications Enablement

2011-02-21T17:50:57Z

Newburyport, Massachusetts. February 22, 2011 — eZuce open communication systems are designed to deliver the best user experience for enterprises by leveraging eZuce’s revolutionary SIP Services Oriented Architecture ^TM (SSOA). SSOA represents the state-of-the-art architecture for a scalable, highly-available, and modern unified communications system. It optimally uses available resources given its load-sharing redundancy, offers the best possible audio and video quality, and integrates all relevant modes of communications resulting in a compelling end user experience.

At its core the eZuce SSOA is designed as a system that is easy to manage, avoiding any hierarchy between components that require element managers and managers of managers. By leveraging eZuce’s cohesive web based administration interface, IT administrators can benefit from centralized management of all system components; combined with powerful Web Services APIs resulting in reliable application and business process integration. eZuce SSOA has become the new standard blue-print for how software based communication and collaboration systems are built and delivered as an IT software application.

openUC is the first SIP Session Manager solution to use a NOSQL database to scale at the transaction layer. With the introduction of our SIP Service Oriented Architecture ^TM (SSOA), openUC uses MongoDB as its in-memory database to replicate transaction data asynchronously between different machines that participate in the openUC cluster. A non-relational approach is the best path to database solutions which scale horizontally to incorporate many machines. Using MongoDB not only gives us fast and efficient replication to many nodes, it also allows for seamless redundancy of SIP call control, disaster recovery, as well as additional services redundancy, including media services such as unified messaging. For the first time any node can take over for any other node in a large and geographically distributed cluster, completely seamless and without dropping any calls. The system's capacity scales linearly with the number of nodes, and nodes can join or leave dynamically.

eZuce SSOA introduces an innovative new approach to communications systems design leveraging a dedicated SIP session manager which injects unprecedented simplicity, flexibility and scale at significantly lower costs compared to legacy PBX communications systems. In addition eZuce SSOA enables federation between systems and organizations with a modeling and plugin infrastructure that accommodates all the system components, including third party devices such as phones and gateways delivering a pure plug n’ play experience.

“We developed eZuce SSOA^TM as an innovative and advanced architectural tool that addresses enterprise requirements for an easy to use, centrally managed unified communications system. We believe that the combination of eZuce SSOA and MongoDB is the answer for open communications delivering true Internet scalability.”

Martin Steinmann, CEO and Co-Founder, eZuce Inc.

eZuce open communication solutions feature SSOA as the underlying architecture infrastructure that manages the overall unified communications functionality for openUC enterprise software including voice, video, instant messaging, presence, conferencing, collaboration, unified messaging, call center, and mobility. Customers can download a copy of the eZuce SSOA white paper by visiting http://www.ezuce.com/download-white-paper and learn more about SSOAand the many benefits it provides to enterprises.

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com

eZuce Develops Strategic Business Partnership with TechTele Communications LLC

2011-02-16T18:19:39Z

Newburyport, MA. February 16, 2011— eZuce continues to expand its partner community with the addition of TechTele Communications LLC, based in Berlin, CT., as they are now officially enrolled in the EZ Partner Program as an EZ Pro partner.

The eZuce EZ Partner Programdelivers customizable tools, resources, and programs that enable its channel partners to go-to-market successfully with the complete portfolio of eZuce open communication solutions, while delivering professional support services directly to their customers.

eZuce is the first provider of open source based unified communications designed to address the challenges and emerging communications requirements of today’s enterprises. eZuce’s openUC^TM enterprise software delivers a fully functional and interoperable enterprise communications solution integrating voice, video, instant messaging, presence, conferencing, collaboration, unified messaging, and mobility capabilities implemented in native SIP to provide an improved user experience.

As an EZ Pro partner, TechTele Communications collaborates with eZuce to deliver open communications to the mid to large enterprise marketplace providing an IP PBX migration strategy that enables customers to move off legacy and expensive platforms, leverage existing IT investments, and transition to an all software solution while lowering overall communication costs per user.

TechTele Communications will engage with EZ Elite Partner Ronco Communications and Electronics Inc.to deliver eZuce open communications to their installed Nortel and Avaya customer base to augment their existing solutions portfolio and expand their market presence within the Northeastern region. Both TechTele Communications and Ronco Communications and Electronics Inc. have extensive Nortel/Avaya experience, which complements the eZuce openUC enterprise software as a viable option for customers operating within these IT environments.

“The TechTele Communications team is pleased to join the eZuce EZ Partner Program. Having the ability to deliver a complete unified communications solution to our customers is a huge win for us and our customers. eZuce’s open communications allows our customers to leverage existing IT investments while enabling their end users to experience a consistent unified user interface and user experience at a fraction of the cost of traditional Unified Communications platforms”

Fred Pell, Operations Manager, TechTele Communications

TechTele Communications’ goal is to provide the best available systems, the highest level of service, and the most rigorous technical support possible to meet the customers’ ever-evolving communications needs and expectations. As a long-time certified Nortel Premium Advantage Partner and an Avaya Silver Business Partner, they provide customers with a sophisticated mix of the most innovative and advanced technologies available, backed by a "local-to-global" service capability.

TechTele Communications is a premier technology solutions provider designing, implementing, and maintaining powerful converged communication networks for enterprise customers nationwide. TechTele Communications’ focus on customer service has enabled their business to grow around the concept that every solution is unique, because their clients are unique. They approach every challenge as an opportunity to provide excellent service, quality products, and a highly customized, personal approach towards customer service. Their custom solutions help to reduce operating costs while providing a reliable single point of contact for customers. Their value added professional services include but are not limited to:

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Data infrastructure
Unified Communications
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Wireless services
Security assurance
Speech applications
Customized solutions

“eZuce is excited to have TechTele Communications join our partner community and begin introducing our open communications software to their customers as this will enable eZuce to become the de facto open alternative for traditional IP PBX systems available from Nortel and Avaya.”

David Grazio, VP of Product Marketing, eZuce Inc.

About TechTele Communications LLC

TechTele is an AVAYA Silver Business Partner and premier technology solutions provider designing, implementing and maintaining powerful converged communication networks for enterprise customers nationwide. Utilizing a single-source approach, TechTele offers a full range of solutions including Cabling, VoIP, Data Networking Solutions, Unified Communications, IVR, Wireless, IP Video Surveillance and much more. For more information about TechTele Communications please visit our Web site at http://www.techtele.com

About eZuce, Inc.

eZuce, Inc. delivers open communications enabling social business and collaboration designed for mid to large enterprises. eZuce serves as the commercial support entity and primary contributor sponsoring SIPfoundry and the sipXecs open source project. It is the first company to provide a SIP-based software only solution to enable Unified Communications-as-a-Service as the platform for next-generation, open UC architecture. For more information about eZuce, please visit our Web site at http://www.ezuce.com

You can also follow eZuce online through our official corporate social networking sites:

Contact Info

David Grazio

eZuce, Inc.

+1.978.502.0126

dgrazio@ezuce.com

Carmen Harris

Connect2 Communications, for eZuce, Inc.

+1.919.435.9115

carmen@connect2comm.com