BEIJING, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Beijing Infobird Software today announced that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100 Companies. Winning and finalist companies from the previous three years were eligible for this outstanding award. Out of 1,800 successful and highly eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to drill-down the best companies first to 200 finalists, then to the top 100 winners of this global award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration. The announcement of the winners was made at the Red Herring 100 Global, taking place in San Diego from January 14-16, 2009. Present among the finalists were elite executives and venture capital leaders from around the world.

''We were so pleased to announce Beijing Infobird Software as a Red Herring Top 100 Global Company,'' commented Red Herring publisher Alex Vieux. ''Infobird has proven to be a company excelling in their industry and its ripples have turned into waves. It was difficult for us to narrow down, but we are pleased to have included Beijing Infobird Software in our list of promising companies. We look forward to the changes it will make to its industry in the future.''

''As one of five high-tech companies from mainland China selected as a Red Herring Global 100 Winner, we felt quite honored,'' commented Yimin Wu, CEO of Beijing Infobird. ''Because we are the only domestic contact center firm selected as a Red Herring Global 100 winner breaking the record of the industry in winning the Red herring Award, it's a very meaningful signal. It represents a most advanced business model in the software industry that addresses piracy, the old sore issue in China's software industry. The SaaS model has great potential; most likely, the enterprise leader of China's new economy would grow from those software firms adopting SaaS model."

In 2009, as the impact of global economic crisis continues to broaden and deepen, the real economy will be further exacerbated. However, to sectors such as e-commerce businesses, this crisis also means opportunity; as an important tool for e-commerce enterprises to have customer interaction, call centers will enter their golden era. Moreover, at the aspect of social change, Chinese society has also been transforming from manufacturing centric to service centric; not only the central government is committed to building a service-oriented government, institutions and enterprises at all levels also put great emphasis on services, which has become a buzz word in China now. As one of the most powerful tools to improve service level, the application of call centers will also be greatly expanded. Building on years of accumulated technology and industry experience, Infobird launched the SaaS model call center as a pioneer in the field, greatly lowering the threshold for adoption of call centers, which is a blessing for China's tens of millions of small and medium-sized enterprises which are eager to improve their customer interaction level.

About Red Herring

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About Winning Company:

Beijing Infobird Software Co.; Ltd is a professional vendor of call center system and services, whose main business is to build call centers for enterprises or provide them hosted call center solutions. Infobird has worked with hundreds of customers including Alibaba, eLong, The9, Digital China, Zhaopin and People's Insurance Company of China. In February 2008, targeting millions of SMEs in China, Infobird launched Qitongbao, SaaS model contact center solution, turning contact center from an IT luxury into commodity which each enterprise could afford, greatly lowering the barrier for SMEs to adopt contact centers to improve their customer interaction. More information about Beijing Infobird is available on the Internet at http://www.infobird.com .

    Beijing Infobird Contact:

    Edward Y. Chen
     Beijing Infobird Software Co.; Ltd
     Tel:     +86-10-6252-4762
     Fax:     +86-10-6252-9647
     Email:   cheny@infobird.com
     Address: 3rd floor e-Wing Center
              No. 113 Zhinchun Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100086
     Web:     http://www.infobird.com

    Red Herring Contact:
     Anam Alpenia
     Red Herring, Inc.
     Tel:   +1-650-428-2900
     Email: aalpenia@redherring.com

     Yvonne Caprini
     Logistics Manager
     Red Herring, Inc.
     Tel:   +1-650-428-2900 x410
     Email: ycaprini@redherring.com

SOURCE Beijing Infobird Software Co.; Ltd