Genesys (company)

Genesys, (also known as Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.), is a company that sells customer experience and call center technology to mid-sized and large businesses. It sells both cloud-based and on-premises software. Genesys is headquartered in Daly City, California and has offices in Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The company was founded in 1990 and was most recently acquired by Permira Funds and Technology Crossing Ventures in February 2012.Paul Segre has led the company since 2007. In February 2015, the company announced its 2014 revenue of $850 million.

History

Genesys was founded by Gregory Shenkman and Alec Miloslavsky in October 1990. The company's original seed funding came in the form of $150,000 in loans from the founders' families. The company completed its initial public offering (IPO) in June 1997 and was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol GCTI. Genesys acquired Forte Software, Inc. (later renamed Adante), a developer of e-mail management software, in December of that year. The company also acquired Next Age Technologies, a workforce management software developer, in June 1999.Alcatel-Lucent (then Alcatel) acquired Genesys for $1.5 billion in late 1999.

Company

A company is an association or collection of individuals, whether natural persons, legal persons, or a mixture of both. Company members share a common purpose and unite in order to focus their various talents and organize their collectively available skills or resources to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms such as:

A company or association of persons can be created at law as legal person so that the company in itself can accept Limited liability for civil responsibility and taxation incurred as members perform (or fail) to discharge their duty within the publicly declared "birth certificate" or published policy.

Because companies are legal persons, they also may associate and register themselves as companies – often known as a corporate group. When the company closes it may need a "death certificate" to avoid further legal obligations.

Company (Heroes)

The Company refers to a fictional covert international organization in the NBC drama Heroes. Its primary purpose is to identify, monitor and study those individuals with genetically-derived special abilities. The Company played a central role in the plot of Volume Two, during the second season of the series. It is a very notable organization in the series and is connected to several of the characters.

Founders

In season two, Kaito Nakamura revealed that there were twelve founders of the Company, and a photo of the twelve is later seen (listed below under "Group photo"); it did not include Adam Monroe, an immortal human with the ability of rapid cellular regeneration, who is described as the one who "brought them all together." The Company began sometime between January 1977 and February 14, 1977. Monroe was locked away for thirty years on November 2, 1977, concluding that he only spent about 10 to 11 months with the Company. In the first season of the show, Daniel Linderman heads the Company until his demise. He is substituted in the second season by Bob Bishop, who is implied to be the Company's financial source. However, when Sylar kills him in the beginning of Season 3, Angela Petrelli takes over. Several of the founders have children who are posthumans and who are main characters within the series.

Company (disambiguation)

A company is a group of more than one persons to carry out an enterprise and so a form of business organization.

Company may also refer to:

In titles and proper names:

Genesys (video game)

Genesys is an educational video game, released in 2000 for Windows-based PCs and Apple Macintoshes. It was developed by Cybele Productions and Wanadoo Edition.

The player is guided by Jeanne Moreau through Claude Richardet's game. The game allows the player to discover the key stages of the evolution of various human societies around the world.

External links