Interactive Intelligence Adds Senior Staff to Enhance Cloud Communications Infrastructure, Service and Support

Online, December 12, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ), a global provider of software and services designed to improve the customer experience, has added three vice president positions to further enhance the company's cloud communications infrastructure, service and support.

Ray Cappola, Jose Martinez, and Steven Vaughan all fill newly created vice president positions, and bring a combined 48-plus years of experience to the Interactive Intelligence Communications as a Service offering.

"Given that our cloud solutions have represented the fastest growing segment of our business for the past several years - with cloud-based orders up 75 percent last quarter alone - we decided to add several key positions to ensure we can continue offering our customers the best cloud deployment experience possible," said Mike Szilagyi, Interactive Intelligence vice president of CaaS.

Ray Cappola serves as Interactive Intelligence vice president of CaaS support, which includes global management of CaaS technical support and the company's network operations centers. Cappola brings with him 12 years of technology support experience, which includes his previous role at Oracle where he led the global storage support delivery team.

Jose Martinez serves as Interactive Intelligence vice president of CaaS infrastructure, which includes management of Interactive Intelligence's 12 global data centers, as well as the company's CaaS-related network and storage operations and engineering. Martinez, who has 16 years of industry experience, was previously employed by IBM where he successfully managed global infrastructure projects for the company's Fortune 500 customers.

Steven Vaughan is a contact center industry veteran and serves as Interactive Intelligence vice president of CaaS delivery, which includes management of the CaaS architecture, implementation, and service delivery teams. Prior to Interactive Intelligence, Vaughan served in senior product management, professional services, and IT systems roles at companies such as Cisco, Genesys and LiveVox. Vaughan has more than 20 years of industry experience.

The Interactive Intelligence CaaS group has grown 115 percent over the last year. The company continues to invest heavily in its CaaS infrastructure, with plans to increase cloud staff by an additional 50 percent in 2014.

For more information about the Interactive Intelligence cloud solutions, visit http://www.inin.com/solutions/Pages/Cloud-based-Solutions.aspx.

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About Interactive Intelligence
Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ) is a global provider of contact center, unified communications, and business process automation software and services designed to improve the customer experience. The company's solutions, which can be deployed via the cloud or on-premises, are ideal for industries such as financial services, insurance, outsourcers, collections and utilities. Interactive Intelligence was founded in 1994 and has more than 5,000 customers worldwide. The company is among Software Magazine's 2013 Top 500 Global Software and Service Providers, and is the recipient of TMC's Cloud Computing Magazine's 2013 Cloud Computing Excellence Award. It has received Frost & Sullivan's Company of the Year Award, Contact Center Systems, North America, for the last three consecutive years. Interactive Intelligence employs more than 1,500 people and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company has offices throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Interactive Intelligence can be reached at +1 317.872.3000 or [email protected]. Visit the company on the Web at www.inin.com; on Twitter at www.inin.com/twitter; on Facebook at www.inin.com/facebook; or on LinkedIn at www.inin.com/linkedin.

This release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are described in the company's SEC filings.

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