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Support Stock Index & News
Wednesday, August 19, 1998

Today's SSDEX Figures

Index

Close

Change

Percent

SSDEX
Dow
Nasdaq
S&P500

67.97 8693.28 1842.69 1098.06

-1.25
-21.37
-12.43
-3.14

-1.84% -0.25%
-0.67%
-0.29%

Support Stock Index (SSDEX) is the support industry's health barometer. It is a measure of the stock performance for companies that sell products and services to the support / customer interaction industry. On 12/31/96, SSDEX's value was set at 100, making it easy to see how the industry is performing as a group. Quarterly in-depth reports are available for $99/year.

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Today's Gainers and Losers

   Company   

   Close    

 Change 

 Percent 

Versatility
ICT Group
IMA
Firstwave
Astea
Inference
Precision
Vantive
Peregrine
Clarify
SPS Pay
Pegasystems
APAC Tel.
Sykes
Aspect
Siebel
Remedy
Datawatch
Applix
Melita
Teletech
Aegis Comm
West Tel
SITEL

1 5/8
3
8 1/2
4 3/16
2 5/16
2 13/16
6
11 3/16
36 7/8
12 9/16
31 3/8
24 3/8
4 31/32
19 1/8
30 13/16
28 3/8
13 1/8
1 7/16
2 5/8
10
11 3/16
2 15/32
12 7/8
4 1/4

9/40
3/8
5/8
1/8
1/16
1/16
1/8
3/16
1/2
1/16
0
- 1/8
- 1/32
- 5/32
- 5/16
- 5/16
- 3/16
- 1/32
- 1/16
- 5/16
- 3/4
- 7/32
-1 5/16
- 1/2

16.07%
14.29%
7.94%
3.08%
2.78%
2.27%
2.13%
1.70%
1.37%
0.50%
0.00%
-0.51%
-0.63%
-0.81%
-1.00%
-1.09%
-1.41%
-2.13%
-2.33%
-3.03%
-6.28%
-8.14%
-9.25%
-10.53%



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  Partner and Customer News    

Apropos Technology and Peregrine Systems Announce CTI Integration Partnership

Apropos Technology, Inc., a developer of call center management (TCCMTM) software, today announced a partnership with Peregrine Systems, Inc. Peregrine Systems ServiceCenter(R) Enterprise Service Desk application and Apropos' Version 4 turnkey call center management solution will now team up to provide a superior CTI-enabled service desk. The terms of the agreement call for both companies cross-recommending each other's solutions into appropriate accounts. As well, Peregrine Systems has acquired an Apropos call center management system for installation and display at their corporate visit center. Finally, Apropos has acquired Peregrine Systems software for application integration testing and development. Full Story - http://www.realmarket.com/news/apropos081998.html

Sprint Calls on Vertical Solutions' PowerHelp for PBX Support, Dials Up 75% Increase in Productivity

Sprint's Business Market Organization, which supports 31,000 clients and over 1,000 technicians for Sprint's PBX Systems, key systems, routers, servers, Internet products and video conferencing equipment has implemented PowerHelp(TM) help desk software from Vertical Solutions, Inc. (VSI). Sprint has recognized a minimum 75% increase in productivity measured by Sprint's ability to almost double the number of calls engineers were able to take prior to implementing PowerHelp.

  Financial News    

ICT GROUP INC. Appoints Chief Financial Officer

ICT Group Inc. said Vincent Paccapaniccia (formerly of Villeroy and Boch Ltd), vice president of finance, succeeds Carl Smith as chief financial officer.

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