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Leading Industry Publication Acknowledges Qontext for its Contextual Collaboration Platform.
Mountain View, CA – August 6, 2011 – Qontext Inc., a leading business social collaboration platform and Gartner’s 2011 “Cool Vendor” pick, today announced that it has been selected as a KMWorld’s Trend Setting Product of 2011.

The “Trend-Setting Product” awards began in 2003. This year, more than 800 products were assessed by the judging panel, which consists of editorial colleagues, analysts, system integrators, vendors themselves (sometimes even competitive ones), line-of-business managers, and users.

Qontext social-enables any business application, by quickly and seamlessly adding activity feeds, embedded collaboration tools, follow-record, content pinning and single-sign-on with a seamless user interface. With Qontext, users can collaborate with colleagues, partners, vendors, or customers inside the business applications they already use (e.g., CRM, ERP, MRM, etc.) and pin those conversations to the relevant business processes and objects for easy recall and powerful information management.

“As one of this year’s ‘Trend-Setting Products’, Qontext demonstrates clearly identifiable technology breakthroughs that serve their customers’ collaboration requirements,” said Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor-in-chief.

“We’re honored that KMWorld selected Qontext as trend setting product for 2011,” said Samir Ghosh, VP Business Development & Strategy of Qontext. “We find that most users prefer our integrated approach rather than adding additional application destinations. Qontext integrates with existing applications, including legacy apps so users are not locked into any particular application. Not only does this integration provide convenience for the user, but it provides powerful knowledge management for the organization.”

Qontext includes a comprehensive suite of social collaboration tools such as Threaded Discussions, File and true Document Management with versioning and Microsoft Office® integration, Shared Bookmarks, Blogging, Rich Text Wikis, Photo Sharing and Video Streaming, Polls, Quizzes, and Surveys.

Visit www.qontext.com for more information about Qontext.

About KMWorld

KMWorld is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market and covers the latest in Content, Document and Knowledge Management, informing more than 45,000 subscribers about the components and processes – and subsequent success stories – that together offer solutions for improving business performance. KMWorld is a publishing unit of Information Today, Inc.

About Qontext

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Qontext Inc. is a global provider of social collaboration software for medium to large companies and for software vendors seeking to quickly add state-of-the-art social collaboration features to their applications. Qontext facilitates shared information including discussions, documents, blogs, wikis and more — empowering employees to work together when and where they prefer – inside the business applications they use. Qontext is available as a cloud hosted service or on premises software.  www.qontext.com.

Qontext, the Qontext logo, Qontext BlueGlass are service-marks or trademarks of Qontext Inc.

Contact:

Susan Garfield
pr (at) qontext.com
(866) 660-6099

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Qontext releases new version of its NetSuite integration, adding support for users to follow activity around NetSuite records of any record type.
Mountain View, CA – August 3, 2011 – Qontext Inc., a leading business social collaboration platform and Gartner’s 2011 “Cool Vendor” pick, today announced a new version of its social software for NetSuite.  This new release adds the ability, for the first time in NetSuite, to follow any changes to selected NetSuite records.  Changes or activity around user-selected records automatically show in their Qontext activity feed.  For example, a user can get notified when the probability of a sales opportunity changes or if the status of an order is updated.

“Qontext for NetSuite” already social-enables NetSuite by providing social collaboration capabilities tightly integrated within NetSuite.  With Qontext, NetSuite users can collaborate with colleagues, partners, vendors, or customers using NetSuite or via Qontext’s stand-alone social portal.

“We’re excited about this new release.  NetSuite users have been asking us for this functionality since we announced our NetSuite integration in the SuiteWorld keynote in June,” said Samir Ghosh, VP Business Development & Strategy of Qontext.  “Qontext for NetSuite provides greater functionality than Salesforce Chatter, plus Qontext integrates with NetSuite, Salesforce, and other applications, including legacy apps so users are not locked into any particular application.  Not only does this integration provide convenience for the user, but it provides easier recall of discussions as they’re pinned to relevant business records and processes.  It also eliminates the ‘social feed overflow’ problem that many suggest might be solved using ‘feed filtering.’”

Qontext includes a comprehensive suite of social collaboration tools such as Threaded Discussions, File and true Document Management with versioning and Microsoft Office® integration, Shared Bookmarks, Blogging, Rich Text Wikis, Photo Sharing and Video Streaming, Polls, Quizzes, and Surveys.

Visit www.qontext.com/netsuite for more information about Qontext for NetSuite.

About Qontext

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Qontext Inc. is a global provider of social collaboration software for medium to large companies and for software vendors seeking to quickly add state-of-the-art social features to their applications. Qontext facilitates shared information including discussions, documents, blogs, wikis and more — empowering employees to work together when and where they prefer — maximizing efficiency.  Qontext uses on‑demand, private cloud hosting for secure scalability with predictable, optimized IT costs and dependable, with a global Service Level Agreement. www.qontext.com.

Qontext, the Qontext logo, Qontext BlueGlass are service-marks or trademarks of Qontext Inc.

Contact:

Susan Garfield

pr (at) qontext.com
(866) 660-6099

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Qontext’s SuiteApp Helps NetSuite Customers Improve Business Performance by Enhancing Communications and Knowledge Management

San Francisco, May 11, 2011 – Qontext Inc., a leading business social collaboration platform and Gartner’s 2011 “Cool Vendor” pick, today announced a new social-collaboration NetSuite (NYSE: N) application for the SuiteCloud Computing Platform. Qontext facilitates social sharing, contextual conversations, and collaboration across business applications. Qontext’s integration uses NetSuite’s SuiteCloud development platform and includes a SuiteApp that can help NetSuite customers improve business performance by eliminating the need to switch back and forth between different websites and by pinning social collaborations — discussions, documents, videos, blogs, and wikis — right with the records where users expect them.

The announcement was made today at SuiteWorld 2011, NetSuite’s inaugural conference designed for NetSuite customers, solution providers, independent software providers, developers and system integrators. SuiteWorld 2011 is being held in San Francisco.

NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of on-demand products, development tools, and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. The complete SuiteCloud offering includes NetSuite’s multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure; the NetSuite Business Suite of applications for Accounting/ERP, CRM and Ecommerce; and comprehensive development tools to create cloud-based business applications on top of NetSuite.

“Social collaboration becomes more important to businesses every day,” said Samir Ghosh, VP Business Development & Strategy of Qontext. “Our NetSuite SuiteSocial integration offers great value to users by improving business efficiencies and knowledge management.”

The Qontext solution includes the social collaboration tools Threaded Discussions, File and Document Management with versioning and Microsoft Office® integration, Shared Bookmarks, Blogging, Rich Text Wikis, Photo and Video Sharing, Polls, Quizzes, and Surveys.

Working with NetSuite
The new NetSuite Application lets NetSuite users collaborate as easily with non-NetSuite users as with NetSuite users, inside or outside of their organization, and organize social collaborations by NetSuite record as well as aggregate and search across records. The results include improved efficiencies, better use of knowledge, and improved business performance.

“Businesses want to use social applications but are trying to figure out how to integrate them with existing processes and tools,” said Guido Haarmans, Vice President of Developer Programs and Business Development at NetSuite. “Qontext has built a social SuiteApp that is completely integrated with NetSuite’s data model, workflow and user interface making collaboration a natural part of CRM and ERP.”

Visit www.suiteapp.com for more information about NetSuite applications.

Visit www.qontext.com/netsuite for more information about Qontext for NetSuite.

About Qontext
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Qontext Inc. is a global provider of social collaboration software for medium to large companies and for software vendors seeking to quickly add state-of-the-art social features to their applications. Qontext facilitates shared information including discussions, documents, blogs, wikis and more — empowering employees to work together when and where they prefer — maximizing efficiency. Qontext uses on demand, private cloud hosting for secure scalability with predictable, optimized IT costs and dependable, with a global Service Level Agreement. www.qontext.com.

About NetSuite
NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. Based on NetSuite, the world’s most widely used cloud computing business management suite, SuiteCloud enables customers to run their core business operations in the cloud, and software developers to target new markets quickly with newly-created mission-critical applications built on top of mature and proven business processes. The complete SuiteCloud offering includes NetSuite’s multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure; the NetSuite Business Suite of applications (Accounting/ERP, CRM and Ecommerce); the NS-BOS Development Platform; the SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN), a comprehensive developer program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs); and SuiteApp.com, a single-source online marketplace where customers can find applications to meet specific business process or industry-specific needs. For more information on SuiteCloud, please visit http://www.netsuite.com/developers.

Qontext, the Qontext logo, Qontext BlueGlass are service-marks or trademarks of Qontext Inc.

NetSuite, the NetSuite logo, SuiteBundler, SuiteCloud, Suitelets and SuiteScript are service-marks or trademarks of NetSuite Inc.

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Qontext designated for context-aware computing

Mountain View, CA April 28, 2011 – Qontext, a leading provider of Enterprise Social Software solutions, today announced it has been included in the list of six “Cool Vendors in Context-Aware Computing” by Gartner, Inc.

A key finding in the report, available from Gartner, states “Organizations need to understand the principles of context-aware computing to properly filter the increasing amount of sensor, search, analytics, location, presence and social information they can use to enhance applications and user experiences.”

While the benefits of using internal social software is gaining widespread acceptance among enterprises, most employees and departments would like to see immediate and sustained benefits. Tangible benefits are realized when social collaboration is integrated within the applications used every day, by preventing loss of productivity due to context switching and aiding knowledge capture and reuse. Qontext does this by providing immediate access to contextually relevant communications and documents right inside and across business applications.

“Social contextual collaboration delivers true ROI and sustained adoption to an enterprise by augmenting existing business processes,” said Jay Pullur, CEO of Qontext Inc. “We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner as confirmation of our mission to enable customers to unlock the power of social collaboration.”

About the Cool Vendor Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Qontext
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Qontext Inc. is a global provider of social collaboration software for medium to large companies and for software vendors seeking to quickly add state-of-the-art social features to their applications. Qontext facilitates shared information including discussions, documents, blogs, wikis and more — empowering employees to work together when and where they prefer — maximizing efficiency. Qontext uses on demand, private cloud hosting for secure scalability with predictable, optimized IT costs and dependable, with a global Service Level Agreement.
www.qontext.com.

Media Contact
Samir Ghosh
VP, Business Development & Strategy
pr (at) qontext.com

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Hyderabad, India – April 28, 2011: Pramati Technologies was recently awarded the prestigious “Top IT Product Company in the State” award (for 2010) by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. Jay Pullur, Founder and CEO, Pramati Technologies received the award from the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Kiran Kumar Reddy on 31st March.

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Mountain View, CA – April 4, 2011: Qontext, the leader in business social contextual collaboration, is powering the SugarCon 2011 Online Community.  Anyone, including SugarCon attendees or those who cannot travel to San Francisco this year can register for free at http://sugarcon.qontext.com/ (mobile accessible).  Qontext is also sponsoring, exhibiting, and Samir Ghosh, VP Business Development & Strategy, is speaking at SugarCon.

In addition, Qontext is offering all SugarCRM customers 1 YEAR FREE service of Qontext integrated with SugarCRM for 25 users by registering in April and providing their Sugar URL.

With Qontext, SugarCRM users can collaborate inside SugarCRM records with colleagues, partners, customers or prospects outside of SugarCRM or your organization making it truly Social CRM.  Qontext integrates instantly with any application, so collaborative conversations can be pinned to multiple business objects across applications.  For example, an internal customer escalation issue could be pinned to a Case in SugarCRM and to an Order in an order entry system, giving meaningful context for all users to the ongoing collaboration and for future discovery.

“We’re excited about the natural fit between SugarCRM and Qontext where Qontext can enable and capture internal cross-functional conversations right within SugarCRM,” said Samir Ghosh, Qontext VP.  “It can even be used to help close business and service customers.  Rather than just chattering about sales opportunities, SugarCRM + Qontext adds real context for better cross-functional team selling and information recall.”

“The addition of Qontext underlines our commitment to offer a broad Social CRM user experience anytime, anywhere,” said SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin, “It will allow users to be more productive and to connect more closely with their customers.”  Qontext was named the SugarExchange Product of the Month last October by SugarCRM.

CRM Made Social: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhiIQAdNVRM
Never Sell Alone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBhK6iu1ck

About Qontext:

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Qontext Inc. provides the only social collaboration platform that instantly social-enables any custom or off-the-shelf business application including CRM, ERP, HR, Financials, etc.  Qontext is available on-demand for small companies to large enterprises.   Qontext facilitates shared information including discussions, document management, blogs, wikis, videos, polls and more — empowering employees to work together when and where they prefer — optimizing productivity and knowledge management.  Qontext was developed by Pramati Technologies, the company that has delivered world-class products for over a decade, including the highly acclaimed Pramati Java Middleware and SocialTwist.  Qontext uses on-demand, private cloud hosting for secure scalability with predictable, optimized IT costs and dependable, global Service Level Agreement. www.qontext.com.

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Mumbai, March 30, 2011.Herald Logic and Qontext have announced a partnership to integrate Herald Logic’s industry leading channel management software with Qontext Social Contextual Collaboration Platform. This will enable customers of Herald Logic Channel Management to deepen their channel engagement through enhanced collaboration and communication. The integration will enhance core business processes of distribution management including on-boarding of new channels and participants, sales performance reviews, product and sales training, product launches and sales promotions, and compensation dispute resolution.

“Our CMS is an integrated platform for distribution management for enterprises with large and multi-channel (direct and partners) distributed sales teams. With this integration we intend to provide our customers the ability to link context specific unstructured collaboration with the structured collaboration provided by our system. The combined offering will add further value to our customers by enabling them to build a closely knit and fully engaged channel community” says Ram Ramdas, CEO, Herald Logic. Distribution and Sales are inherently social processes with financial business outcomes – “Social Business” has the potential to redefine how companies engage with their channels and sales force to address customer acquisition and top line growth, especially in highly competitive environments, adds Ramdas.

“Herald Logic CMS provides a comprehensive feature set for on-boarding and managing very large-scale, hierarchical channels. The integration with Qontext, enhances CMS events and processes with ability to bring related conversations, documents and other unstructured data together” says Jay Pullur, CEO, Qontext. “Effective engagement of the channel in a competitive marketplace needs portal capabilities that are inspired by today’s social networks and Herald Logic CMS with Qontext can now fulfill the social engagement and effective collaboration demands of the channel business.”

IndiaFirst Life Insurance, existing customer of Herald Logic Channel Management System, has recently adopted the Qontext Social Collaboration platform as a basis of strategic initiatives to deepen engagement various communities.  “We were looking for a platform to enable collaboration with and between various communities like Employees, Distribution Partners, Strategic Customer Groups. In Qontext, we found an extensible platform with multiple collaboration possibilities. We didn’t find the facility of application data level integration with other product we evaluated. This is a huge value add to our initiatives” said Vinayak Khadye, Chief Technology Officer, IndiaFirst Life.

Qontext Social Collaboration Platform is designed to enable enterprise software products and applications with social tools and collaboration capabilities. Unique to Qontext, is its ability to integrate collaboration objects with business objects of the product, there by enabling Contextual Collaboration (hence the name Qontext) within the business application.

About Herald Logic:
Herald Logic is a leader in providing solutions to manage complex channels for retail oriented large enterprises in various sectors like BFSI, Telecom, CPG etc. It’s CMS platform provides comprehensive set of modules for all stages of channel operations (Acquire-Monitor-Reward cycle) and can meet the challenges of multi-channel, rapidly changing partner world. For over 8 years, Herald Logic has delivered successful implementations, with a 10x Return on Investment (ROI) to many leading brands. Visit www.heraldlogic.comfor more information.

Herald Logic Contact
Ashish Shah (Head-Marketing)
ashish.shah@heraldlogic.com
91-22-2841 1711 / 12

About Qontext:
Qontext Inc. is a global provider of enterprise social collaboration platform for companies. Qontext solutions meet the social community need of organizations, including, internal collaboration, inter-company collaboration, employee engagement and customer engagement. Qontext is the only private social collaboration platform that easily and seamlessly integrates with existing business applications such as CRM, ERP and others. Visit www.Qontext.com for more information.

Qontext Contact:
Rajeev Balakrishnan
rajeev.balakrishnan@qontext.com
91-40-44603300

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 8, 2011 – Qontext, the leading business social collaboration platform today announced it has joined the Intel® Expressway partnership program. With mainstream adoption of cloud applications and social collaboration within enterprises, the next challenge to overcome is to enable seamless identity management and social interaction across multiple applications. Qontext provides cross-application social collaboration functionality and Intel® Expressway Cloud Access 360 (Intel ECA 360) provides access control for the cloud through federated single-sign-on (SSO), user provisioning, step up strong authentication and client aware authorization.

Consistent with Gartner’s top three strategic technology predictions for 2011, this partnership will help deliver a seamless combination of cloud, social and mobile capabilities for enterprises by ensuring that both the social collaboration and identity management are consistent across the applications within the organization.

IntelECA 360 software is the first solution suite designed to control the entire lifecycle of access security for enterprises and their partners connecting to cloud applications. Qontext is a unique social business collaboration platform because it integrates seamlessly and deeply with existing applications. The partnership will enable customers to easily add consistent, unified social collaboration and identity management across their applications.

“Qontext and Intel ECA 360 are a natural fit,” said Samir Ghosh, Qontext vice president of business development. “Together, the two products provide a consistent social, collaboration and security experience, paired with functionality across the enterprise’s applications. For example, with Intel ECA 360 and Qontext, an enterprise user could collaborate with a cloud ERP system that links to an on-premises content management system, all using Active Directory behind the firewall for SSO and appropriate access privileges in both systems.”

“We’re working with Qontext to show what can be accomplished beyond SSO,” said Girish Juneja, director, Intel Application Security & Identity Products. “Users of Qontext and Intel ECA 360 can use social collaboration within various applications while ensuring consistent, enterprise-class security and access control across those applications.”

About Qontext:
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Qontext Inc. is a global provider of on-demand social networking software for medium to large companies and for ISVs seeking to quickly add state-of-the-art social features to their web-based applications. Qontext is the only private social collaboration platform that easily integrates with existing business applications such as CRM. Qontext facilitates shared information including discussions, documents, blogs, and more — empowering employees to work together when and where they prefer — creating maximum efficiency. Qontext uses on-demand, private cloud hosting for secure scalability with predictable, optimized IT costs and dependable, global Service Level Agreement. www.qontext.com.

Contact:
Samir Ghosh
samir.ghosh@qontext.com
650-963-4744

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Mountain View, CA – December 8, 2010 Qontext today announced the release of its next generation of Social Contextual Collaboration, which is easier to use, more powerful and more agile than ever before.

Qontext is the only Social solution to provide true asynchronous Contextual Collaboration for enterprises where users can socially collaborate within any application, down to specific business objects (e.g., an account or opportunity within CRM, or a purchase order in an order entry system). Qontext even connects social conversations across multiple applications, all with no programming or customization.

Qontext offers a unique set of differentiators that sets it apart, including easy integration with all apps, visibility controls and the ability to collaborate both internally and externally.

“The first step was to create a business collaboration platform that offers context, not just chatter, by social-enabling any application you want to use. We do not limit our users to specific applications.” said Qontext VP of Business Development, Samir Ghosh. “The next step was to make it even more efficient and facile for users by providing a user interface that is familiar to non-users of social media as well as social media whizzes.”

Qontext has partnered with such industry notables as Salesforce, SugarCRM and LeadFormix. It was developed by Pramati Technologies, which has delivered world-class products for over a decade, including the acclaimed Pramati Java Middleware and SocialTwist. Qontext is available as an on-demand SaaS or on-premises offering with a monthly subscription.
About Qontext:
Qontext Inc. is a global provider of on-demand social networking software for companies and ISVs seeking to quickly add state-of-the-art social features to their web-based applications. Qontext is the only private social collaboration platform that easily integrates with existing business applications such as CRM. Qontext uses on-demand, private cloud hosting for secure scalability with predictable, optimized IT costs. www.qontext.com.

Contact:
Robbi Peele
robbi@leepcommunications.com
(415) 596-7929

Peggy Jara
peggy@leepcommunications.com
(510) 333-1160

Samir Ghosh
samir.ghosh@qontext.com
(650) 963-4744

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Qontext and SugarCRM: A Sweet Deal

Mountain View, CA – November 18, 2010 Qontext, a business social networking platform to make companies more agile and efficient has been SugarExchange certified by SugarCRM, the commercial open source CRM leader. The new integration with Qontext, social-enables SugarCRM so users can follow and collaborate with associates, partners and customers via a single platform.

“We’re excited about the natural fit between SugarCRM and Qontext where Qontext can enable and capture internal cross-functional conversations right within SugarCRM,” said Samir Ghosh, Qontext Vice President of Business Development. “It can even be used to help close business and service customers. Rather than just chattering about sales opportunities, SugarCRM + Qontext adds real context for better two-way cross-functional team selling and information recall.”

Unlike emails, which get buried, lost and forgotten, Qontext allows people to easily find documents and discussions months or even years later, right on an opportunity or customer account page for example. With Qontext, these social conversations can bridge across SugarCRM to link with other applications. Qontext also lets people work collaboratively on documents and important projects. Employees can stay on top of what’s going on in the company with real time feeds and they can opt to get customized alerts when important events happen, such as a new opportunity posting, product shipment or delay.

“The addition of Qontext underlines our commitment to offer a great CRM user experience anytime, anywhere,” said SugarCRM Senior Director, Martin Schneider, “It will allow users to be more productive and to connect more closely with their customers.”

Qontext was named the SugarExchange product of the month for October. It easily integrates with any app. Qontext was AppExchange certified by Salesforce.com earlier this year. Qontext was developed by Pramati Technologies, the company that has delivered world-class products for over a decade, including the highly acclaimed Pramati Java Middleware and SocialTwist. Qontext is available as a SaaS offering with a monthly subscription.

To read an interview with Samir Ghosh about how social media and business interact and sometimes collide, go to: http://www.crmoutsiders.com/2010/11/11/breaking-down-the-social-silos-qontext/

About Qontext:

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Qontext Inc. is a global provider of on-demand social networking software for medium to large companies and for ISVs seeking to quickly add state-of-the-art social features to their web-based applications. Qontext is the only private social collaboration platform that easily integrates with existing business applications such as CRM, ERP, HR, financials, even custom applications down to detailed business object level. Qontext facilitates shared information including discussions, documents, blogs, wikis, videos, polls and more — empowering employees to work together when and where they prefer — creating maximum efficiency. Qontext uses on-demand, private cloud hosting for secure scalability with predictable, optimized IT costs and dependable, global Service Level Agreement. www.qontext.com.

Contact:
Robbi Peele
robbi@leepcommunications.com
415-596-7929
Peggy Jara
peggy@leepcommunications.com
510-333-1160

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