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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
02 Aug 2006

Xceed Professional Services Enters Agreement to Become COPC Inc. Implementation Partner

Williamsville, NY – Customer Operations Performance Center Inc. (COPC Inc.) announces that Xceed Professional Services, the premier customer contact consulting practice in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region, has signed an Implementation Partner Agreement allowing Xceed to administer certification to the COPC® Family of Standards, as well as other COPC® services in the region. Countries included in the agreement are: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.

The newly formed partnership is significant in that it extends the global footprint of COPC Inc., providing seamless delivery of contact center best practices through implementation of the COPC® Family of Standards. It also represents the effectiveness of the Standard in accelerating the maturity and capabilities of the contact center industry.

"As a specialized customer contact consultancy, which aims to bring global standards of customer communications to the region, Xceed Professional Services is pleased to be a part of assisting contact centers in the Middle Eastern region in the implementation of the COPC® Performance Management System," said Mr. Ahmed Refky, Managing Director of Xceed Professional Services. "This is a premier high performance system that provides critical process management, benchmarking, and visibility of key performance results. It is clearly strategic to driving global consistency in the contact center industry."

In order to be recognized as COPC® Certified Auditors of the COPC® Performance Management System, selected senior Xceed Professional Services staff have undergone extensive training, meeting rigorous qualifications including participation in several joint audits with COPC Inc. auditors.

Xceed Professional Services' Egyptian based sister company, Xceed Contact Center, with a capacity of 1200 web-enabled, multi-channel workstations, became certified to the COPC-2000® CSP Standard in December 2005, following "an exceptionally good implementation coupled with superior operating results", according to Dr. Richard North, Managing Director of Customer Operations Performance Center International Inc.

The COPC-2000® CSP Standard, with its first public release in 1996, is the first and only certification process designed specifically for contact centers. As a world-class benchmark of productivity, efficiency and cost-effectiveness for customer contact operations, it ensures Contact Center Excellence worldwide.

About Xceed Professional Services

Xceed Professional Services, a sister company of Xceed Contact Center, is an experienced customer contact consulting practice that can deliver real expertise in the fundamental areas of customer contact operations. Xceed Professional Services is the sole Customer Operations Performance Center Inc. (COPC Inc.) implementation partner in the MENA region. Through its best practices approach, Xceed Professional Services offers customer consulting services and formulates solutions for customer relationship enhancement. For additional information, visit www.xceedps.com

About COPC Inc.

COPC Inc. is the world’s leading authority on operations management and performance improvement for buyers and providers of customer contact center and business process outsourcing (BPO) services. The COPC® Performance Management System includes site certification programs, operational management training, Six Sigma in Contact Centers, performance improvement consulting and vendor sourcing and management services.

Since 1996, COPC Inc. has helped organizations in 35 countries drive results averaging two to five times Return on Investment (ROI) with a payback of less than one year. These results are achieved by leveraging the COPC® Family of Standards, the industry’s oldest, most rigorous and only high performance set of global best practices and performance metrics that simultaneously increases customer satisfaction and profitability.

Global clients include Accenture, Apple, BT Group, Bertelsmann Arvato, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cable & Wireless, Citigroup, Convergys, General Motors, Genpact, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, NTT, Sony, Telefónica, Telstra, and Wipro.

For additional information, please email to info@copc.com.