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SALT LAKE CITY, June 15, 2011 -- inContact (NASDAQ: SAAS), a provider of on-demand call center software and call center agent optimization tools, today announced that it has entered into a worldwide distribution agreement with Siemens Enterprise Communications. In addition, an affiliate of Siemens Enterprise Communications has made a strategic investment in the company.

Under the new commercial agreement, Siemens Enterprise Communications will be the exclusive master distributor for the inContact cloud contact center software portfolio in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and will deliver the solutions under the Siemens Enterprise Communications "OpenScape Cloud Contact Center" brand name. Siemens Enterprise Communications will also resell the inContact portfolio in the U.S., Asia Pacific and Latin America. inContact will establish the cloud infrastructure in Europe required to support this new agreement and will enable and train the Siemens Enterprise Communications team to independently sell, implement and support its global cloud contact center customers.

Said Mariann McDonagh, Chief Marketing Officer for inContact, "We are pleased to be selected by Siemens Enterprise Communications to power its global cloud contact center offering, as it underscores inContact’s leadership in the growing cloud contact market. With more than 3,000 sales and support personnel as well as 3,000 channel partners around the world, the Siemens Enterprise Communications team is uniquely positioned to help inContact drive significant growth in the next several years. We look forward to working with Siemens Enterprise Communications over the next several months to train their front and back office personnel for their market launch later this year."

Siemens Enterprise Communications, a joint venture of Siemens AG and the Gores Group, is a  provider of end-to-end enterprise unified communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions and supporting services. With a presence in more than 100 countries, Siemens Enterprise Communications provides comprehensive communication and collaboration solutions for organizations of all sizes. Siemens Enterprise Communications currently holds positions in Europe, Latin America and India.

"After a lengthy due diligence process, we were pleased to select inContact to power our cloud contact center offering," said Chris Hummel, Chief Marketing Officer and President of North American operations for Siemens Enterprise Communications. "We believe that our recently announced OpenScape Cloud Solutions, combined with the inContact cloud contact center platform, will provide a market-leading and powerful unified communications and contact center for our joint customers and partners around the world."

An affiliate of Siemens Enterprise Communications made an investment of nearly $24 million in restricted common stock of inContact at a price of $3.32 per share.1

"This equity investment will provide inContact with the strong balance sheet and financial capability required to continue to grow our cloud business and further strengthen our market-leading position," said Paul Jarman, inContact CEO. "Furthermore, this renewed financial strength will enable us to extend our network and platform capability to effectively support enterprise customers and partners around the world."

Siemens Enterprise Communications CEO Hamid Akhavan, software and telecommunications veteran and the former COO at Deutsche Telekom Group, will join the inContact Board of Directors.

Concludes Jarman, "This highly strategic relationship with Siemens Enterprise Communications marks the beginning of a new era of accelerated global growth and visibility for inContact. We have never been in a better position, both financially and technologically, to capitalize on the massive opportunity before us and we continue to actively develop additional potential partnerships that will expand our presence across the globe."

Posted by Veronica Silva Cusi, news correspondent
Source: http://www.businesswire.com

About inContact:
inContact, Inc. provides on-demand customer contact center platforms to approximately 650 contact centers across the globe. With its roots in telecommunications and network infrastructure, inContact is unique in its offering because it combines a powerful connectivity backbone with a world-class software platform. The inContact platform includes: a powerful Automated Call Distributor (ACD) with skills-based routing, Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), Interactive Voice Response (IVR) with speech recognition, an innovative online hiring solution, an eLearning application, workforce management functionality, and a customer feedback and survey solution.

About Siemens:
Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc. is a global supplier of Voice, UC, and Contact Center technologies. The company's Open Communications approach to providing software, solutions and services for enterprises of all sizes enables business processes to be more productive, faster and more secure - with any device, network or information technology infrastructure.