| (Business
Wire)-- Motive, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOTV),
a leading provider of management software, today announced that it continues
to strengthen its European presence through relationships with leading
broadband providers Multikabel, Swisscom and Telecom Italia.
All of these companies are working with Motive to build self-management
capabilities into their broadband offerings. Motive now counts as customers
16 of Europe's leading DSL and cable broadband operators, which together
serve more than 45 percent of all Western European broadband subscribers.
Telecom Italia, the largest broadband provider in Italy with more than 85
percent of the subscriber base, and Dutch cable operator Multikabel have
selected Motive to build intelligent automation into their broadband
services, ensuring they are easier to set up, use and maintain.
The agreement with Telecom Italia was the result of Motive's success over
the past two years in working with Telecom Italia's ISP, Tin.it. In addition
to these new agreements, Swisscom, the largest broadband provider in
Switzerland and an existing Motive customer, has reached an important
deployment milestone by making new Motive-enabled service offerings
available to all its subscribers and customer service personnel.
"As European providers shift focus from merely delivering high-speed access
to offering bundles of sophisticated voice, video and data services, Motive
is seeing greater demand for self-management software that intelligently
automates the installation and maintenance of these complex services and the
various devices they depend on," said Bruno Teuber, Motive's vice president
and general manager for EMEA.
"Our 'built-in management' approach is playing a significant role in
helping providers more quickly deliver next-generation services, gain higher
customer penetration and satisfaction, and keep operational costs to a
minimum. This, coupled with Motive's continued investment in our European
operation over the past five years, has allowed us to prosper in this
region, serving as a strategic partner to many of the industry's largest and
most innovative providers."
Motive's software builds management capabilities directly into broadband
services, automating a range of complex processes such as configuration,
activation, and problem resolution to simplify the use of services for
subscribers and to improve operational efficiency for providers.
Motive maintains offices in London, Paris, Munich, Zurich, and Stuttgart,
and will open a sixth European office in the first half of 2005.
About Motive, Inc.
Motive, Inc. has pioneered a unique approach to designing management
services into Internet-era networks, systems and applications. Motive's
software makes complex products and services self-managing, reducing
overhead costs and optimizing customers' return on investment. Companies
worldwide have relied on Motive's software to provide a range of problem
remediation and configuration management tasks for more than 40 million
endpoints. Founded in 1997, Motive is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and
has offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, visit
www.motive.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties relating to the benefits and expected usage of our
products by the named customers.
Actual events or results may differ materially from those described in
this press release due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including,
among other things: our ability and our customers' ability to achieve broad
adoption and acceptance of our products, the ability of our software to
produce results for the customers' subscribers, the compatibility of our
software with hardware and software platforms that are used by our customers
and their subscribers now or in the future, and our ability to open another
European office in 2005.
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