Netviewer Group: Rapid Growth in 2005

Karlsruhe (ots) -

- More than 2,500 new customers
- 50 new employees hired in 2005: Netviewer now counts some 110
employees worldwide
- Foreign sales increased to more than 40 percent
- Outlook for 2006: Sales expected to double, staff increased by
60 employees

Netviewer GmbH and its foreign subsidiaries are able to look back
on a very successful fiscal 2005. The increase in our customer base
was most encouraging: the number of Netviewer customers more than
doubled from 1,500 to more than 4,000 customers worldwide. The
company also boosted its staff by hiring more than 50 new employees.
In Germany and abroad, the Netviewer Group now employs some 110
workers, with more than 90 at the head offices in Karlsruhe. The
outlook for 2006 is no less positive: Netviewer expects its revenues
to double and plans to hire another 60 new employees.

The increase in global business contributed significantly to the
rapid growth of the company. The Netviewer Group now earns some 40
percent of its revenues abroad. At the beginning of the year, the
subsidiaries established in France and Switzerland proved very
successful. These two subsidiaries drew more revenues than expected
and had hired eight new employees each by the end of 2005. Netviewer
plans to open other subsidiaries in 2006.

The reason for this rapid growth is the general trend towards
using web-collaboration software in companies. This software gives
internet users a live view of each other's screens to discuss and
work on any documents or applications together. The first users of
such software worked primarily in support for computers and servers.
In addition to e-mail and telephony, such web-collaboration solutions
have now gained a foothold as a new communications form in all
business operations. Online meetings in particular are becoming
increasingly popular. Such well-known market-research companies as
Frost&Sullivan or Gartner are currently forecasting enormous growth
numbers for this branch of the market.

Last summer, Netviewer received the Innovation Award from the eco
Association for the web-collaboration solution it presented at CeBIT
2005. In the competition for Entrepreneur of the Year 2005, CEO Dr.
Schweinbenz claimed 2nd place in the "Start-ups" category. Last
autumn, Netviewer was added to Gartner's magic quadrant for "Web
Conferencing" to make the company one of the world's leading
suppliers in this field.

About Netviewer

Netviewer GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany) supplies the software of the
same name for web collaboration, desktop sharing and web conferencing
(www.netviewer.de). Netviewer software gives internet users a live
view of a partner's screen so that text, spread sheets, graphics and
other documents can be jointly discussed and edited. Live
communication over the internet cuts travel time and increases
productivity. More than 4000 multi-corporate enterprises and SMEs
from over 30 countries make use this software including Agfa, Bayer,
BMW, Deutsche Post, Ernst & Young, Siemens and Swisscom Mobile.

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Pressekontakt:
Netviewer GmbH
Irmgard Pirkl
Erzbergerstr. 117
D-76133 Karlsruhe Germany
Tel.: +49 721 354499-714
E-mail: presse@netviewer.de
www.netviewer.de