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CosmoCom and Microsoft Business Solutions Announce Relationship

Create Complete "Contact Center in-a-Box" for OEMs and NSPs  

MELVILLE, NY – May 20, 2003 – CosmoCom announced today that CosmoCall Universe, its Customer Interaction Management (CIM) platform including Automatic Call Distribution (ACD), Interactive Voice Response (IVR), and Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) is now tightly integrated with Microsoft Business Solutions CRM, an application developed by Microsoft® Business Solutions, a leading provider of business applications designed to help small, midmarket, and corporate account segment businesses become more connected to customers, employees, partners and suppliers.

CosmoCom, the leading provider of next generation, IP-based contact center technology, is a strong proponent of the "Contact Center in-a-Box" concept. Also known as CIRM (Customer Interaction and Relationship Management), these systems provide both CIM and CRM with a built-in level of integration previously available only through expensive custom projects.

CosmoCom sees Microsoft CRM as an ideal partner application for its universal access contact center product, CosmoCall Universe™. The integrated technology is available in three forms: (1) a premises platform, mainly for OEMs wishing to offer a CIRM product; (2) a network service provider (NSP) platform integrated with the planned NSP version of Microsoft CRM; and (3) an NSP platform configured to integrate with premise-based instances of Microsoft CRM. The integrated solution was demonstrated recently to a select group of telephone company executives from all over the world at Microsoft Connections: An Executive Summit for Service Providers.

"Since we designed CosmoCall Universe around Microsoft standards, our platform is exceptionally open and fully unified within its own sphere, and our APIs are extremely compatible with those of Microsoft CRM," said Steve Kowarsky, CosmoCom’s executive vice president. "This explains why with Microsoft CRM, we’ve been able to implement the vital integration points between CIM and CRM in a few weeks, compared to the years of effort that many contact centers have needed with other CRM systems."

"We are pleased to be working with CosmoCom, along with our Microsoft NSP colleagues, to address a number of exciting worldwide OEM and NSP opportunities," said Jos de Laat, director business development at Microsoft Business Solutions. "CosmoCom’s strong presence in the NSP market is demonstrated by its status as a Managed Partner of Microsoft’s NSP group. Its NSP presence, its proven viability as an OEM technology, and its extensive experience in CIM and CIRM, will provide our mutual customers with dramatically increased functionality that will maximize the return on their investment."

About CosmoCom
CosmoCom is the leading provider of all-IP, universal access contact center platforms. CosmoCall Universe™ supports multi-channel customer interactions including telephone, web chat, web voice, web video, web collaboration, email and voicemail in one high capacity, high availability, multi-tenant platform. CosmoCall Universe is a complete, unified contact center suite that includes ACD, IVR, CTI, predictive dialing, multimedia recording and a complement of powerful management applications. Service Providers use CosmoCall Universe to offer network-hosted Contact Center On-Demand™ solutions to their end user customers. CosmoCom also provides best-of-breed IP ACD, IP IVR, and other elements to OEMs. CosmoCom technology is available worldwide through CosmoCom’s OEM and Network Service Provider partners, including BT, Cable & Wireless, France Telecom, Korea Telecom, NTT, PLDT, Rockwell FirstPoint Contact and TeliaSonera. Headquartered in Melville, New York, CosmoCom has received an array of industry awards and was recently ranked by Deloitte and Touche as Long Island’s fastest growing company. For more information about CosmoCom, please visit www.cosmocom.com.

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