Minneapolis, MN — Nov. 21, 2011 — The Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) has named Calabrio the winner of the 2011 Tekne Award in the Software – Small and Growing Company category.  The Tekne Awards honor companies and individuals who play a significant role in developing new technologies that positively impact the lives and futures of people living around the world.

Calabrio, located in Plymouth, Minn., has an ambitious goal – to provide the contact center customer service industry with a better option for workforce optimization software by eliminating the implementation and ownership challenges facing enterprises of all sizes. The latest Calabrio ONE® suite features a new Web 2.0-based user experience designed to simplify daily use and configurability for dynamic contact centers. Calabrio ONE draws on the proven techniques of the social web to deliver a suite of applications that helps contact centers staff, evaluate and measure performance effectively by providing personalized views for each type of user.

The company has sustained growth in excess of 20 percent over the past three years due to its technological innovation, aggressive sales and marketing efforts, and relationships with industry leaders Cisco and Avaya.

“We are honored to receive this award for creating intuitive applications that make it easier for contact center professionals to provide better service to their customers,” said Tom Goodmanson, president and CEO at Calabrio.  “This award is a testament to the hard work of the Calabrio team to advance workforce optimization to offer our customers the advantages of a modern toolset that takes advantage of the speed, flexibility and mobility of the web.”

Playing a significant role in bringing new technology to life, the 2011Tekne Award recipients represent large global companies, as well as small entrepreneurial ventures, that have helped reinforce Minnesota’s place as one of the most competitive and technologically advanced regions in the world. Judges selected one recipient out of the three finalists in each of the 14 Tekne Award categories, recognizing the best and brightest in development, education, commercialization and management of technology.

A list of 2011 Tekne Award recipients and finalists is available online at www.tekneawards.org/

About Calabrio, Inc.

Calabrio, Inc. develops and markets Calabrio ONE®, a comprehensive suite of contact center workforce optimization software that’s easy to implement, use and maintain. Calabrio ONE includes call recording, quality assurance, workforce management, speech analytics and performance-based dashboards and reporting. Calabrio ONE is flexible – providing product bundles and add-ons that make it easy for customers to begin with the right set of applications and features for their business today, then build on their success with new applications and features as their business matures and their needs evolve. Calabrio ONE is built on a modern Web 2.0-based architecture that allows the contact center to integrate new applications easily, as well as personalize and optimize the desktop toolset for each user – agents, supervisors, managers, knowledge workers, and executives. Calabrio is a member of the Cisco Developer Network (CDN), and a gold member of the Avaya DevConnect program. Find news and information at https://www.calabrio.com/.

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Calabrio, Calabrio ONE and the Calabrio logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Calabrio, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

About Minnesota High Tech Association

MHTA fuels Minnesota’s prosperity through innovation and technology.  Now entering its fourth decade of service, MHTA has a vision to make Minnesota one of the country’s top five technology states by 2020. MHTA is the only membership organization that represents the state’s entire technology-based economy. Members include organizations of every size − involved in virtually every aspect of technology creation, production, application and education in Minnesota. MHTA works in partnership with TechAmerica, which represents Minnesota’s technology organizations nationally. Find out more online at https://www.mhta.org/ or follow MHTA on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MHTA.