Kunnect Partners with jobs4america to Create Job Growth
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan 18, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kunnect, a leading provider of cloud-based call center telephony solutions, today announced that it has joined jobs4america, a coalition of organizations working to create 100,000 U.S. contact center jobs in the next two years.
The partnership expands the reach of Kunnect's XVP Hosted Call Center solution to jobs4america's growing roster of call center members. With Kunnect's high-quality and affordable solution, call centers have the flexibility and resources needed to create jobs.
"With so many Americans looking for work, new broadband-enabled technologies are transforming the way contact centers work and enabling the creation of thousands of new jobs across the country," said Jim Kohlenberger, jobs4america executive director. "It's great to see forward-thinking technology companies like Kunnect harnessing new technologies to help put America back to work."
Kunnect's XVP Hosted Call Center solution is hosted in the Amazon cloud. The combination of Kunnect's software and Amazon's cloud technology provide the industry's most scalable and flexible solution. It can be activated in minutes in order to respond to customer needs and scale to meet any load demands. The Kunnect XVP solution is also the most cost-effective in the call center industry, with all-inclusive plans starting at $110/month per license.
Many of today's largest U.S.-based call centers use the XVP Hosted Call Center solution to support home-based, remote agents. These call centers can quickly and cost effectively launch, manage and measure the effectiveness of inbound and outbound call center campaigns. In 2011, call centers used the solution to manage six billion calls.
"Kunnect is proud to join jobs4america and looks forward to driving awareness on the need for domestic job growth as millions of Americans struggle to find work," said Fred Cote, president of Kunnect. "Cloud-based call center platforms like Kunnect's XVP Hosted Call Center solution are critical in enabling job creation and should be the standard for global communications and connectivity."
About Kunnect
Kunnect provides cloud-based hosted telephony solutions. In 2011, customers relied on Kunnect's contact center solutions to manage six billion calls. The company is privately held and based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. For more information, visit http://www.kunnect.com .
About jobs4america
jobs4america is a coalition of forward-looking business leaders committed to creating jobs in America. With millions of Americans looking for work and new broadband enabled technologies transforming the way contact centers work, members of this new coalition are coming together to generate thousands of American contact center jobs. jobs4america members are also helping to identify and encourage other companies, big and small, to join us in this innovative campaign, with an overall goal to create a combined 100,000 U.S. jobs over the next two years. We're proud to be creating new jobs and opportunities for communities and families across America. For more information, visit www.jobs4america.net .
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190 countries around the world. AWS offers over 21 different services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from datacenter locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan and Singapore.
