enhansiv Awarded Contract From Canon ITS to Provide eCRM Technology Solution

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- enhansiv today announced an agreement with Canon ITS to provide an electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) solution that manages thousands of Canon's e-mail based interactions. Canon will leverage enhansiv's highly scalable, remote-hosted CRM solutions to bring blended media capabilities, database management expertise and centralized infrastructure to Canon's customer interaction environment. Canon ITS enlisted enhansiv to replace its legacy system that is currently tracking customers' electronic inquiries related to Canon's Bubble Jet printers. enhansiv is designing a CRM environment that enables Canon's customer service representatives to interact seamlessly with their customers. Phase one of the solution was deployed in only four weeks and is delivered via the Internet, which enhansiv manages from its world-class data center. "Today, Canon ITS receives approximately 28,000 e-mails per month related to the Bubble Jet Printer line and we respond to every customer," said Elliot Cohen, assistant director of technology and support, Canon ITS. "enhansiv's e-mail solution will increase our ability to correspond with customers in a timely manner and gives us a stronger technical infrastructure. Also, enhansiv's complete ASP offering was attractive because of its centralized, remote-hosted nature. This solution means we will never have redundant or contrasting customer information. Overall, the enhansiv solution makes us more efficient in interacting with our customers." "We're thrilled to work with Canon ITS because it has such an excellent reputation in the industry," said Milos Djokovic, chief executive officer, enhansiv. "Our ability to deploy this solution in just a few weeks underscores our key benefits, which include fast-time-to-market, low start-up fees and technical excellence. Also, the remote-hosted nature of our solution means that companies do not have to manage their CRM environment, which detracts from their core competencies." enhansiv offers a highly scalable, Web-centric eCRM technology that incorporates a leading-edge contact management component with all customer contact channels, including voice, e-mail, Web chat, Web co-browse, fax, intelligent voice response, and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) utilizing centralized remotely hosted automatic call distribution. In today's market, large enterprises face tremendous challenges implementing customer-centric strategies because of the inconsistencies and complexities of disparate CRM platforms across the organization. enhansiv's technology is designed to address this challenge, providing a cost-effective solution that delivers speed of deployment across multiple channels, and a centralized infrastructure. Engineered for maximum scalability, enhansiv's remote-hosted technology solutions provide enterprises all the latest technologies without the burdens of tremendous capital expenditures, training or maintenance of an in-house team. enhansiv profile enhansiv was founded in 2000 with the vision of revolutionizing how businesses deploy customer relationship management solutions. Companies benefit from enhansiv's remote-hosted technology solutions and centralized eCRM infrastructure. enhansiv is unique in the marketplace because it offers businesses of all sizes a choice in their eCRM, and provides them with a holistic approach to meeting their strategic eCRM needs. enhansiv delivers businesses integrated, channel independent, hosted eCRM solutions across a wide variety of industries. enhansiv markets its products and services under a strategic marketing arrangement with TeleTech Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTEC). TeleTech is also a founding investor in enhansiv. Canon ITS Profile Canon Information Technology Services, Inc., (Canon ITS) is a joint venture company for customer support established by Canon Computer Systems, Inc. and Canon U.S.A., Inc., which is a subsidiary of Canon Inc., (NYSE: CAJ). Servicing the entire U.S. market, Canon ITS supports a broad range of products, including printers and fax machines, digital and video cameras, multifunction devices, and other electronic devices. It maintains support centers in both Virginia and New York. SOURCE enhansiv

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