CTI AND CENTRAL TELECOM, (SIEMENS' RESELLER OF THE YEAR) JOIN FORCES TO MARKET PROTEUS COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT
16 July 2001: CTI Data Solutions Limited has announced the signing of a Marketing and Distribution agreement with Central Telecom, one of the UK's largest and most successful independent suppliers of voice and data products.
Central Telecom will market CTI's range of Proteus Communications Management software as a value-added application with its new system sales to both small offices and large multi-site organisations.
Over the past 15 years Central Telecom has established itself as a market leader in the implementation of bespoke telecommunications systems and has formed long term partnerships with many leading communications manufacturers. The Company was recently awarded the Reseller of the Year Award by market leaders Siemens.
Proteus is well established in both the single office and multi-site corporate environments and is deployed throughout the world to help companies improve their productivity and customer services by managing their communications more carefully. It is compatible will all PABX types and offers true IP connectivity.
Spencer Bradshaw, Central Telecoms Business Development Director commented:
"With some 200,000 end users throughout the UK, Central Telecom is widely acknowledged as one of the leading independent suppliers of integrated communications solutions. The addition of Proteus to our portfolio further enhances our overall solution and will help our customers get the maximum performance and benefit from their communications systems."
"We chose to partner CTI not only because of the market strength of their product, but also because of the company's dedication to providing pre-sales support and meticulous after-care," added Spencer.
Adrian Burt, Managing Director of CTI Data Solutions, said:
"CTI has been recognised as the premier supplier to the corporate sector for many years, with world-wide installations managing hundreds of networked sites. The recent addition of Proteus Office to our range, for both traditional and IP telephony solutions, means that we are now ideally placed to meet the increasingly diverse needs of the telecommunications industry.
"It is a pleasure to work with Central Telecom, who have spearheaded the independent supplier market for several years, and we look forward to helping them further increase their customer base."
CTI's Proteus connects to any telephone system to produce detailed management reports that help companies to improve their profitability and customer service by, for example:
- Guarding against fraud and network hacking
- Eliminating internal telephone abuse
- Validating network costs
- Measuring customer response and handling times
- Apportioning communication and equipment costs across your organisation
- Marking costs up to generate revenue
- Controlling network capacity and efficiency
- Identifying missed and unanswered calls
About CTI Data Solutions Ltd
CTI Data Solutions Ltd is a world-class provider of integrated communications management and billing software. The company has installations in over 10,000 sites worldwide, and a prestigious list of blue-chip partners, including Mitel, Avaya, Siemens and BT. CTI Data Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CTI Group (Holdings) Inc, a publicly traded company listed on the OTC Bulletin Board in the USA (Symbol CTIG).
CTI Group, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, develops, markets, and supports telemanagement and billing solutions for corporate users of telecommunications services. CTI Group recently merged with Centillion Data Systems, Inc. and Celltech Information Systems, Inc. This merger will create an expanded multinational marketing presence; shared advanced technology development programs; the ability to apply proprietary billing analysis software to these programs; and convergent billing capabilities, creating a premier worldwide provider of software and services for managing billing and call record analysis for the telecommunication industry.
Safe Harbor Statement. This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements may differ materially from actual events or results. Readers are referred to documents filed by CTI Group with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Form 10-KSB for its most recent fiscal year ended March 31, 2000 and subsequent forms 10-QSB and 8-K.
