Vocus - On Demand Software for Public Relations

www.vocus.com In an age of real-time communication, with an increasing number of media outlets and a rapidly growing volume of news and other public information, traditional approaches to PR are becoming outmoded. Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all sizes manage local and global relationships and communications with journalists, analysts, public officials and other key audiences. Our integrated software modules address the critical functions of corporate communications and public relations and include contact management, news management, collateral management, project management, interactive email campaigns, online newsrooms, analytics, compliance reporting and issues and legislation management. Our solutions help organizations manage large amounts of information, deliver consistent and well-executed communications, collaborate among large or geographically dispersed teams and analyze and report on the effectiveness of their corporate communications and public relations.

As part of our solution, we provide an extensive database of over 800,000 records, including journalists, analysts, public officials, media outlets and publicity opportunities. Our information database is integrated with our suite of on-demand modules that together address the communications life-cycle from identifying key contacts, to distributing information, to closing the loop with digitized feedback and management analytics.

We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt our software. We were an early pioneer in hosted, multi-tenant, on-demand software, launching our first version in 1999. Our software is offered as an annual or multi-year subscription, and as of March 31, 2005 we had more than 1,100 customers representing organizations of all sizes across a wide variety of industries. Our software is currently available in four languages and is in use by customers around the world. Since 1999, we have achieved 23 consecutive quarters of revenue growth, and have received awards for company growth and product excellence.