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Mundwerk AG: new member of the EXCELSIS Group
The Stuttgart based EXCELSIS Group invests in its speech technology
division with a majority takeover of the Berlin based Mundwerk AG
Stuttgart/Berlin, 15.2.2005. More than 98% of Mundwerk AG’s
shareholders have sold their shares to EXCELSIS Business Technology AG in
Stuttgart. Hereby, EXCELSIS has succeeded in completing its third strategic
acquisition in the area of speech technology. In July 2004, EXCELSIS purchased
100% of the shares of the speech technology specialist, Insonic AG in Zurich,
and in December 2004 100% of Vocalify in Bern.
"Following the purchase of Mundwerk AG, we now have access to a speech
dialogue platform with which we can also provide medium sized enterprises with a
cost effective speech dialogue system. This outsourcing model for speech
services is in response to market requirements which we can now meet", this
according to Christian Sauter, CEO of EXCELSIS.
About Mundwerk AG
Mundwerk is one of the best known service providers in the area of speech
recognition in Germany. Its core business lies in the development and operation
of a speech dialogue platform and speech applications. Furthermore, Mundwerk AG
offers a rental or hosting model as opposed to the purchase of a speech dialogue
system. Hereby, companies using the system do not have to make any investment in
the hardware and software. Instead, a certain number of phone lines can be
rented on the speech dialogue platform operated by Mundwerk, depending on
customer requirements. Mundwerk also provides standard solutions, including: a
system for the acquisition of meter readings in the energy sector, information
systems in the insurance sector as well as customer service in publishing and
the public service sector. Furthermore, Mundwerk operates a professional sound
studio and supplies users and developers of speech dialogue systems with high
quality audio productions. Mundwerk works for example for T-Online, Viterra
Energy Services, U-Serv, Versicherungskammer Bayern, dit, Colgate and
moneybookers.com. The company was founded in 2000 and is located in Berlin.
About EXCELSIS
EXCELSIS is one of the leading solution providers for internet transaction
platforms and speech portals. Such solutions are deployed for example, in banks
in the brokerage area, in insurance in the area of customer service, in mobile
phone companies in the sales area and in high-tech companies in the area of high
security communication systems. With the "Insonic" and "Plasma" software
development frameworks, EXCELSIS serves its customers by developing and running
innovative solutions to reduce costs and extend services. Computer applications
can be developed much more effectively with the framework and the software
created requires considerably less maintenance than conventionally developed
solutions. In this, the company adheres to open standards like J2EE and VoiceXML
and develops solutions for the leading platforms of its partners, BEA, IBM,
Nuance, Avaya, Aspect, as well as for open source platforms, to name but a
few.
Solutions, developed by EXCELSIS are deployed in more than 100 institutions
worldwide. Customers of EXCELSIS include SAP, HVB, LBBW, Debitel, GE Capital
Bank, Telecash, UBS, Orange, EnBW, cablecom and United Overseas Insurance in
Singapore. EXCELSIS was founded in 1998. Over 100 software developers and
consultants are currently working on customer projects.
EXCELSIS has offices in Stuttgart, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney, Bern and
Zurich. The turnover in 2003 was approx. 8.7 million euro with an EBIT of almost
3 million euro. The company which is privately owned has been profitable since
its foundation and is based in Stuttgart.
Contact
Mundwerk AG
Max Moldenhauer – CEO
Immanuelkirchstraße
3-4
10405 Berlin - Germany
max.moldenhauer@mundwerk.de
EXCELSIS Business Technology AG
Christian Sauter –
CEO
Wilhelmsplatz 8
70182 Stuttgart – Germany
EXCELSIS Business Technology AG
Daniela Burger – Head of
Marketing
Wilhelmsplatz 8
70182 Stuttgart – Germany
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