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Symbiotix Delivers Cost Effective Marketing, Education and Training Services for Pharmaceutical Companies With ON24

ON24 Webcast Center Enables Rapid Delivery of Critical Training Programs for Leading Pharmaceutical Organizations

ON24, the leading global provider of webcasting and multimedia communication solutions, today announced that customers of Symbiotix, Inc, a leading marketing firm whose clients include nearly 70% of the industry's top-ten pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies, have achieved significant cost savings and process efficiencies with ON24 Webcast Center.

ON24 Webcast Center provides an integrated suite of publishing tools for producing high-quality, cost-effective and highly customized web events. Symbiotix is a reseller of ON24 webcast solutions and produces promotional, educational and training web events for the healthcare industry.

ON24 Enables Rapid Delivery of Timely Training Programs

Since June 2005, Symbiotix has conducted a series of live and archived events using ON24, enabling its customers to rapidly deliver critical training information regarding newly FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs, therapies, and treatments to its speaker's bureau of medical thought leaders and educators across the country. These webcasts are instrumental in cost effectively increasing the knowledge and skill of the thought leaders' educators, ensuring that each spokesperson delivers consistent and reliable information. By leveraging ON24 webcasts, Symbiotix helps its customers reduce the travel and training costs associated with live meetings.

"The partnership of Symbiotix and ON24 brings together two pioneers in the delivery of real-time information over the internet," said ON24 CEO, Sharat Sharan. "ON24's combination of first class service and expertise is helping Symbiotix to drive increased productivity within organizations without sacrificing presentation quality. Symbiotix's use of ON24 solutions underscores our vision of the vital role that webcasting plays in the Life Sciences sector. ON24 events have proven to be a cost-effective, streamlined way to continually update healthcare professionals. We are delighted to be involved with a business partner like Symbiotix."

Ease of Use, Presentation Quality and Professional Services Are Key Selection Factors

After experiencing dissatisfaction with its existing web event provider, Symbiotix conducted an extensive evaluation of webcasting solutions and selected ON24 for the following capabilities:

--  ease of use
--  extensive feature set
--  quality and reliability of presentation, audio, video and graphics
--  outstanding customer support and services organization
    

"We evaluated several providers and ON24 offered the presentation quality, turnkey production capabilities, and robust functionality required to address Symbiotix's requirements," said John Ponsoll, Vice President, Business Development for Symbiotix. "ON24's cutting edge communications technologies have become an instrumental part of our services and have enabled us to produce high quality training events in an efficient and cost-effective way."

About Symbiotix

Symbiotix is a premier marketing and communications firm, dedicated to providing credible strategies for dissemination of scientific information to healthcare professionals. Its offices are in New Jersey and Kentucky.

Symbiotix has been at the forefront of its field since its inception in October 1998. In that time they have gained a reputation for scientifically rigorous, fair balanced approaches to both marketing and education strategies. The quality of their work has enabled the establishment of many productive relationships with national thought leaders and pharmaceutical clients in a variety of disease states and therapeutic categories. Companies interested in learning more about the range of services Symbiotix provides should contact John Ponsoll via email at jponsoll@symbiotixonline.com or via telephone at 973-993-0990.

About ON24, Inc.

ON24 is a leading provider of webcast and multimedia communication solutions. ON24 offers one-stop solutions for internal and external multimedia communications for customers in the enterprise, technology, life sciences, government and financial services industries. More than 500 leading companies including Cardinal Health, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse First Boston, Hewlett Packard, Merrill Lynch, NCAA, Philips, and Sun Microsystems use ON24 for activities such as conferences and events, product launches, sales training, continuing medical education, executive announcements, equity research and financial road shows. Based in San Francisco, the privately held company was founded in 1998.

ON24 webcasting products include:

--  ON24 Webcast Center, industry leading product for self-publishing live
    and on-demand webcasts
--  ON24 Simple Audio, for self-service, on-demand audio webcasts
--  ON24 Demo Webcasts, for software or web-based product demonstrations
--  ON24 Webcast Simple, delivering core and robust webcasting features at
    a low price
    

Companies interested in learning more about ON24's complete line of webcasting solutions can call 415.369.8000 or send inquiries to solutions@on24.com.

"A World of Webcasting Solutions. One Webcasting Provider"(TM) -- is a trademark of ON24.

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