ATLANTA, March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- PGi (NYSE: PGI), the world's largest pure-play provider of collaboration software and services, today announced that its Modality Systems subsidiary was named an elite launch partner for Microsoft® Skype for Business. Elite launch partners have the highest level of experience, training and commitment to the Skype for Business platform and are able to deliver on a global scale.

"The Modality team is thrilled to receive this honor, and we're excited to work alongside Microsoft to deliver the value of Skype for Business to enterprises around the world," said John Lamb, PGi general manager and Modality Systems co-founder. "Since our founding in 2007, Modality's sole focus has been on helping enterprises successfully navigate the entire UC journey, from developing a custom UC strategy to boosting end-user adoption and providing end-to-end support. Our goal is to help customers maximize the value of their Microsoft UC investments by enabling them to create more productive ways of working, improve business processes, reduce costs and accelerate business transformation."

Skype for Business brings together the familiar experience of Skype with the security, compliance and control of Lync®. Skype for Business will transform the way people communicate by extending communications beyond the walls of businesses to reach customers and partners, anytime, anywhere. Elite launch partners are prepared to assist enterprises:


    --  Address any or all aspects of planning, deployment, operations and
        adoption lifecycle.
    --  Optimize hybrid cloud deployments with Microsoft Office 365 and
        Server-based environments.
    --  Develop an end-to-end solution with other devices, applications and
        infrastructure.

"As a Skype for Business launch partner, Modality has demonstrated the highest level of experience, training and commitment to the Skype for Business platform and is able to deliver on a global scale," said Giovanni Mezgec, Microsoft GM of Skype for Business.

Modality Systems is the world's largest dedicated Microsoft Skype for Business services and software firm, with over 50 Lync certified professionals, including six Lync Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and three certified Lync Masters; their collective expertise helped the practice earn the prestigious status of finalist for Communications Partner of the Year in the 2014 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards. Modality has developed a suite of proprietary software applications and add-ons designed to extend the value of Lync and Skype for Business environments, enhancing business processes across an organization and facilitating increased productivity for users.

To learn more about Modality and Skype for Business, please visit us at modalitysystems.com or drop by booth #2020 at Enterprise Connect this week.

Microsoft, Skype for Business and Lync are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

About Premiere Global Services, Inc. ? PGi
 PGi is the world's largest pure-play provider of collaboration software and services. PGi's unified collaboration platform empowers business users and teams to connect, share ideas and manage projects with the simplicity and everywhere-access of the latest cloud technologies. PGi has a global presence in 25 countries, and its award-winning solutions provide a collaborative advantage to nearly 50,000 enterprise customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100(TM). In the last five years, PGi has helped over a billion people worldwide connect, collaborate and get work done--in teams, large groups and one-on-one. For more information, visit PGi at pgi.com.

Statements made in this press release, other than those concerning historical information, should be considered forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. A variety of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in PGi's forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following factors: competitive pressures, including pricing pressures; technological changes and the development of alternatives to our services; market acceptance of PGi's SaaS products, including iMeet(® )and GlobalMeet(®); our ability to attract new customers and to retain and further penetrate our existing customers; our ability to establish and maintain strategic reseller and distribution relationships; risks associated with challenging global economic conditions; price increases from our telecommunications service providers; service interruptions and network downtime, including undetected errors or defects in our software; technological obsolescence and our ability to upgrade our equipment or increase our network capacity; concerns regarding the security and privacy of our customers' confidential information; future write-downs of goodwill or other intangible assets; greater than anticipated tax and regulatory liabilities; restructuring and cost reduction initiatives and the market reaction thereto; our level of indebtedness; risks associated with acquisitions and divestitures; indemnification claims from the sale of our PGiSend business; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights, including possible adverse results of litigation or infringement claims; regulatory or legislative changes, including further government regulations applicable to traditional telecommunications service providers and data privacy; risks associated with international operations and market expansion, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; and other factors described from time to time in our press releases, reports and other filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or a person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. We do not undertake any obligation to update or to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release or the date of the statement, if a different date, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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