Nominee Profile: Siemens and Connect Public Relations

The Companies:
Siemens' award-winning HiPath enterprise convergence portfolio offers
customers practical convergence today. The HiPath family of products
represents one of the most comprehensive IP convergence portfolios on
the market. It includes industry-leading IP- and circuit-switched
communications platforms, IP telephones, multimedia PC clients, IP-based
applications for mobility, messaging, and the contact center, and
professional services. HiPath solutions are reliable and feature-rich,
ensuring customers a smooth, self-paced migration to IP and substantial
investment protection. With over one million enterprise customers,
Siemens is the number-one ranked enterprise solutions provider in the
world according to leading analyst firms. For more information about
HiPath products, solutions and services, visit
www.siemensenterprise.com

Connect Public Relations is a hi-tech public relations agency with
offices in San Francisco, CA and Provo, UT.  For more than 12 years,
Connect PR has specialized in media relations for the connectivity and
Internet infrastructure industries.  It represents some of the top
networking and software vendors and e-businesses in the world, such as
Siemens, Symantec, F5 Networks, OCCAM Networks and Efficient Networks.
www.connectpr.com

On Why They Have Entered The American Business Awards:
"Our client, Siemens Enterprise Networks, has great people and great
products that qualify for the honor of an American Business Award," said
Holly Hagerman of Connect Public Relations.

"The American Business Awards is a great way to congratulate the people
of Siemens Enterprise Networks and increase the visibility of their superior
products. It's such a simple thing to congratulate people for their efforts and
achievements, and it can reap such powerful results.

"If Siemens wins a Stevie, the visibility its people and its products would
receive will be invaluable in helping to get out the Siemens message."