Holly Connects Relocates Global Headquarters, Expands Management Team

Holly Connects today announced relocation of its global headquarters to Boston, Massachusetts, in conjunction with the appointments of Steven Orleow as Chief Financial Officer and Rob Kassel as Vice President of Marketing and Product. In addition, Lance Berks, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Holly Connects, has relocated to the new Boston office. Together these changes will allow Holly to more effectively serve its expanding roster of customers in North America and Europe. [click heading for more]

Holly Connects Partners with telisma to Expand Advanced Speech Recognition Solutions for Europe and India

Holly Connects and telisma today announced they have signed a partnership agreement, which will see the Holly Voice Platform support teliSpeech, telisma’s speech recognition software and provide Holly Connects with the opportunity to extend its advanced speech offering, particularly in Europe and India. [click heading for more]

Starfish Ventures to Accelerate Holly Connects’ Growth Strategy

Holly Connects today announced it has completed a major investment by leading venture capital firm, Starfish Ventures, a deal which will fast track the company’s strategic plans to further pursue growth through international expansion.

The investment by Starfish Ventures, a specialist in technology companies, sees the buyout of Holly’s original investors as well as providing additional growth capital to the Company. [click heading for more]

Holly Connects Positioned in Visionary Quadrant for the Report of IVR Systems and Enterprise Voice Portals 2008

Holly Connects today announced it has been positioned by market research firm Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of its report, “Magic Quadrant for IVR Systems and Enterprise Voice Portals 2008” published February 18, 2008 and authored by Gartner analysts Steve Cramoysan and Rich Costello.

The Gartner report identifies Holly’s core market as “large and/or global organizations with a requirement to service diverse telephony applications for multiple business units” and mentioned the strength of the Holly Voice Platform as a “carrier-grade, scalable, distributed, software-only platform with strict adherence to industry standards”.[click heading for more]