Web Conferencing Provider Recognized for Green Meter, Unique
Patent-Pending Tool That Measures Carbon Emissions, Fuel Cost Savings of
Meeting Online
Green advantages for conferencing technologies are evident as meeting
remotely saves on travel, but certain vendors are leading the way with
measurement tools, or calculators, that help customers better assess
their contributions to the environment, triggering wider support for
environmentally-friendly initiatives, says a recent report from Frost &
Sullivan. This report names iLinc
(AMEX:ILC), a leading provider of Web
and desktop video conferencing software and online collaboration
solutions, the exclusive recipient of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Green
Excellence Award for its Green Meter.
The iLinc Green MeterTM,
an embedded feature that comes with iLinc web conferencing software, is
a unique, patent-pending tool that automatically measures carbon
emissions, fuel costs and mileage saved per participant, per meeting and
provides metrics for the organization as a whole. All hosted web
conferencing customers have access to the iLinc Green Meter. So far,
users of iLinc have saved more than two billion pounds of carbon
emissions.
The Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence Award is given to the company that
has demonstrated unique product design and development initiatives,
which is aligned with a sustainable and environmentally conscious
objective within its industry sector. This Award signifies iLinc's
identification of a unique and revolutionary solution with significant
environmental benefits, while presenting tremendous market potential
simultaneously. The Green Excellence Award also shows iLinc's
overall business strategy as being sound and poised for success.
As explained in the report, "Frost & Sullivan
applauds iLinc's efforts in leading the market
with a tool to quantify the benefits of meeting online. iLinc's
ground-breaking efforts to help its customers measure and track their
carbon footprints is validated in the company being the recipient of the
2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence of the Year Award.
iLinc provides secure, reliable, easy-to-use web and video conferencing
services," explained in the Frost & Sullivan
Green Excellence report. "It was one of the
first such vendors to release a 'green'
calculator for tracking and measuring usage." "We're finding
that green initiatives are playing an absolutely bigger role in how
customers make decisions," said James
M. Powers Jr., President and CEO for iLinc. "Add
to that growing widespread focus on reducing cost, travel time and
carbon footprint through widely deployed web and desktop video
communications and it's clear why iLinc web
conferencing is being well received by small to large organizations as a
way to gain greater control during a time of rising costs, and
environmental concerns.
"iLinc's Green
Meter is driving sales in vertical markets where measuring fuel savings
is a mandate, like state governments. The State of Arizona, an iLinc
customer, is seeing real benefit to the Green Meter and can show
measurable savings as a result. Across its 14 state agencies using iLinc
web conferencing, the State of Arizona has saved more than 63,000
gallons of fuel being used, $664,000 in employee mileage reimbursement,
and 760,000 pounds of carbon emissions in the first half of 2008." "With iLinc we are reducing the costs
associated with travel and increasing the productivity of state
employees," said Tad Wootton, Director,
Office of Efficiency Review, for the State of Arizona. "But
we also are heavily cutting carbon emissions as state employees come off
the interstate and go onto the internet." About iLinc
iLinc, a recognized leader in Web
conferencing, desktop video conferencing software and collaboration
solutions, aims to revolutionize the way organizations meet and
communicate. Through its software and services, iLinc liberates people
by enabling them to get more done, travel less, achieve work-life
balance while preserving the environment. iLinc offers the only
enterprise-class Web and video conferencing software that allows
customers to choose between a software-as-a-service (SaaS) rental model
or a traditional software purchase model, in combination with hosting by
iLinc or on-premise installation. iLinc is headquartered in Phoenix,
Arizona. For more visit www.ilinc.com/investors.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Consulting Company, partners with clients
to accelerate their growth. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of
experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses
and the investment community from more than 30 offices on six
continents. For more information, visit http://www.awards.frost.com.
iLinc, iLinc Communications, iLinc Suite, MeetingLinc, LearnLinc,
ConferenceLinc, SupportLinc, EventPlus, and their respective logos are
trademarks of iLinc Communications, Inc. All other company names and
products may be trademarks of their respective companies.
For iLinc
Kathy Sacks, 602-619-4444
ksacks@ilinc.com
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