Echopass Corporation to Sponsor 2012 Gartner Symposium ITxpo(C)

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 9, 2012) - Echopass Corporation, the 2011 and 2012 market share leader in cloud-based contact centers today announced its sponsorship of the 2012 Gartner Symposium ITxpo. Gartner is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, and has held its annual Symposium ITxpo for the last twenty two years. 2012 marks the third consecutive year that Echopass has sponsored Gartner Symposium ITxpo. Echopass will be exhibiting at booth 822.

This year's Symposium ITxpo event will be held October 21 - 25, 2012 at the Walt Disney World Dolphin and Swan Resorts in Orlando, Florida. Featured Mastermind keynote speakers include John Chambers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cisco and Colin Powell, retired United States General and former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Comprehensive IT Agenda in Sync with Contact Center Industry
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the world's most important gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives. The event offers 450+ analyst sessions, workshops, roundtables and mastermind keynotes across five full days. With 10 role-based tracks and 11 industry tracks, the agenda targets specific title responsibilities and ways to adapt new ideas and strategy to specific industries, along with insight on what's next in IT.

The conference sessions provide key industry and technology insights, peer executive networking, IT solutions, and connection to the Gartner analysts for over 7,000 CIOs and other high level IT business executives that will be attending.

This year's agenda will focus on specific disruptive technologies like cloud, social and mobile that are revolutionizing business including the contact center industry. The most successful CIOs and senior IT leaders will embrace the future by turning their attention to growth, cost reduction and competitive differentiation, while understanding the relationship of disruptive technology and corporate strategy.

Third Year Echopass has Sponsored Symposium ITxpo
"We are very pleased to to sponsor Gartner Symposium ITxpo for the third consecutive year," said Rob Farris, Chief Marketing Officer of Echopass. "Much of our client base in the large enterprise are also Gartner clients and turn to Gartner for broad business guidance and insight. In addition, this year's Symposium ITxpo event focus on the cloud, mobility and social are also among the most relevant of discussion topics to our clients and prospects. We look forward to the lively and informative discussions in Orlando with our clients and the Gartner analysts."

About Echopass Corporation
Echopass is the #1 Software as a Service (SaaS) provider of cloud-based contact center solutions to large Enterprises. Since 2000, Echopass customized solutions have served Enterprises with up to 20,000 agents across multiple sites and complex application and infrastructure environments, while satisfying the most stringent industry compliance and security requirements. Echopass solutions are fully integrated, flexible and scalable, and require no capital investment or ongoing maintenance. Privately-held Echopass, backed by venture capital firms Canaan Partners and New Enterprise Associates, is a recipient of numerous industry awards for innovation and customer service, including the Red Herring Top 100 Companies Award and multiple Best Practices awards from Frost & Sullivan. The company is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA. For additional information, please visit www.echopass.com or call 1-888-622-5345.

About Gartner
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies, to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, to technology investors, Gartner is the valuable partner to clients in 12,000 distinct organizations. Through the resources of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events, Gartner works with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 5,000 associates, including 1,280 research analysts and consultants, and clients in 85 countries. For more information, www.gartner.com.

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