WebEx (TM) Communications Incorporated, founded in 1996 and based in Santa Clara, California, is a Cisco Systems Incorporated company that offers customers standalone and hosted communications and collaboration tools and services. The firm's platform, accessed with standard browsers, provides businesses and individuals with on-demand web conferencing, application sharing, and other tools. The MeetMeNow subscription service supports the real-time delivery of presentations over the Internet. WebEx Meeting Center (TM) is a web-based videoconferencing system that streamlines workgroup collaboration. WebEx Communications also is known for its Power PPT presentation graphics design WebEx DocExpress digital document delivery, and WebEx Desktop meeting management tools. WebEx Communications' platform handles data, video, and voice content. It provides users with enterprise instant messaging (IM) and data security features. All hosted meetings are encrypted. Applications are delivered over the private WebEx MediaTone (TM) Network, which can be accessed worldwide. The network supports multiple computing platforms and languages. WebEx Communications' software and services allow organizations to optimize sales, marketing, training, product development, and customer support processes. Online services are employed by 3.5 million people per month. WebEx Communications serves over 12,000 customers worldwide. The company's systems are used by organizations across the financial services, health care, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and government sectors. WebEx Communications was founded as ActiveTouch Incorporated. The firm has acquired Intranets.com Incorporated. WebEx Communications is listed on NASDAQ under the WEBX symbol.