CIC and planetRE Partner to Provide Industry Best Practice eSignature Solution to...

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Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:01am EDT

CIC and planetRE Partner to Provide Industry Best Practice eSignature Solution
to the Real Estate Industry
Combined Offering Deployed at Top Real Estate Firms





REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Communication Intelligence Corporation ("CIC") (OTC Bulletin Board: CICI),
a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for business process
automation in the financial industry* and the recognized leader** in biometric
signature verification and planetRE, a leading provider of transaction
management platform to national real estate brokers announced today that they
have entered into an agreement to provide CIC's electronic signature solutions
to planetRE's customers and to jointly promote each other's product offerings.

Under the strategic agreement, CIC is providing its industry proven electronic
signature technology for planetRE's Compliance(TM), an enterprise level SaaS
platform for high-end Transaction & Document Management, Broker compliance,
and risk management with a host of Broker centric features not found on any
other platform on the market for real estate brokers nationwide. One of the
distinguishing functions of this platform is centralized auditing and file
review, also commonly known as "broker signoff".  

"Traditionally, each broker or designated broker/manager would sit with mounds
of paperwork in the office and sign each physical document by hand, which was
too time consuming and cumbersome," stated Subrao Shenoy, planetRE's CEO. "Our
partnership with CIC has enabled the real estate industry to take a huge step
forward; with electronic signatures being used in broker signoffs.  planetRE's
Compliance alerts brokers on transactions coming to close and review.  Brokers
can securely login from any location in the world and using any major browser
access upcoming transaction files and documents online, input comments on
files and signoff using integrated electronic signature with CIC's Sign-it
technology."  

The combined offering provides the fastest way to convert large amounts of
paper documents to online folders. Unlike other solutions that only provide
document storage or bits and pieces of transaction management, planetRE allows
complex document access rules, high speed conversion of paper to electronic
documents, electronic signatures, auditing, and file review logic with
detailed compliance logs. It serves as a center of communication for clients,
agents, office, staff, co-op agents, and vendors over an entire transaction
lifecycle. 

"CIC is pleased to see the progress being made within the Real Estate Industry
to adopt and take advantage of electronic approval technologies and are
therefore delighted to be partnering with planetRE," stated CIC's Chairman &
CEO, Guido DiGregorio.  "This partnership and collaboration fully utilizes all
of the benefits that our electronic signature technology provides through
secure, paperless transactions including the significant support of
environmentally sustainable business practices."

Windermere Real Estate, Arizona, one of the largest brokerage operations in
the West with several offices and hundreds of real estate professionals is
utilizing this centralized paperless system.

"After an extensive evaluation of the various electronic signature vendors and
their technologies we chose planetRE with CIC's proven and secure electronic
signature solution," stated Tim Smallwood, Director at Windermere Real Estate.
 "It is an ideal solution for our company because it enabled us to reduce
costs in this brutal economy with a centralized paperless system that every
agent in the company uses. We save significant time; our Broker signoffs are
much easier, faster and more transparent with planetRE combined with CIC's
Sign-it technology and lastly, the system provides detailed on-line auditing
and addresses all the local Department of Real Estate requirements." 

"Realty Executives of Nevada waited to adopt a transaction management platform
until we could find technology for the Broker to sign the files electronically
rather than printing out a page, signing it and faxing it back into the
system.  CIC's electronic signature technology allows us to perform that task
online which made it feasible for us to transition to a paperless system.  We
had considered planetRE to be the most functional program for our needs but
lacked this one component.  We now have that, and the system is working
smoothly for Broker file review and transaction management," stated Jeff
Moore, award winner broker/owner for leadership & excellence for Realty
Executives International. "The more progressive Realtors are demanding a
paperless transaction management system to function with their business
practices and client needs.  We feel by having the Broker sign electronically,
as well, that we offer a superior solution to the Executives/agents that work
for our company and those looking to enhance their offerings to their
clients."

Realty Executives of Nevada is ranking consecutively in the top 100 Real
Estate Companies nationally with numerous Executives/agents in Southern
Nevada. 

"With clients scattered all over the world it was important to us to embrace
this technology," stated Forest Barbee, Chief Compliance Officer and Broker of
Record for Prudential Americana Group Realtors. "We chose planetRE and CIC
because of their product leadership and differentiation as well as strong,
successful track record.  Real estate transaction processes are extremely
complicated with myriads of compliance that requires enormous amounts of
paperwork." 

Prudential Americana Group Realtors, the 8th largest in the company's national
network of 677 franchises launched a new Green campaign in which the company
deployed a paperless transaction system utilizing planetRE and CIC's
electronic signature technology.

About CIC
Communication Intelligence Corporation ("CIC") is a leading supplier of
electronic signature solutions for business process automation in the
Financial Industry and the recognized leader in biometric signature
verification. CIC's products enable companies to achieve truly paperless work
flow in their eBusiness processes by enabling them with "The Power to Sign
Online(R)" with multiple signature technologies across virtually all
applications in SaaS and fully deployed delivery models.

Industry leaders such as AGLA, Allstate, American Family, Bank of America,
Charles Schwab, Prudential, Snap-on Credit, Travelers, Wells Fargo and WFG
(World Financial Group) chose CIC's products to meet their needs. CIC has
deployments with over 400 channel partners and enterprises worldwide
representing hundreds of thousands of users, with over 500 million electronic
signatures captured, eliminating the need for over a billion pieces of paper.
CIC sells directly to enterprises and through system integrators, channel
partners and OEMs. CIC is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California and has
a joint venture, CICC, in Nanjing, China. For more information, please visit
our website at http://www.cic.com

*In December 2008, CIC was named to Forrester Research's "Hot Banking Tech
Companies To Watch in 2009" Report.

**In October 2007, CIC was awarded the 2007 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for
Market Leadership in the dynamic signature verification market.

About planetRE
TrSoft (d.b.a. planetRE) is a privately held, leading edge SaaS vendor,
providing online multi tenant Enterprise software to the real estate industry.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA; its primary mission is to provide cutting
edge products to the global real estate industry in areas of consumer search,
CRM, Transaction and Financial Management. planetRE is licensed by large
national real estate companies. More information about planetRE can be found
on the Internet at www.planetre.com.

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technological, engineering, quality control or other circumstances which could
delay the sale or shipment of products containing the Company's technology;
(2) economic, business, market and competitive conditions in the software
industry and technological innovations which could affect the Company's
business; (3) the Company's inability to protect its trade secrets or other
proprietary rights, operate without infringing upon the proprietary rights of
others or prevent others from infringing on the proprietary rights of the
Company; and (4) general economic and business conditions and the availability
of sufficient financing. 

CIC, the Power to Sign Online and Sign-it are registered trademarks.  All
other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
respective holders.


    Contact Information

    CIC
    Investor Relations & Media Inquiries:
    Chantal Eshghipour
    650-802-7740
    investorrelations@cic.com

    planetRE
    Media Inquiry:
    Daren Hamilton
    1-206-391-0255
    daren@planetre.com






SOURCE  CIC Communication Intelligence Corporation

Investor Relations & Media Inquiries, CIC, Chantal Eshghipour,
+1-650-802-7740, investorrelations@cic.com; Media Inquiry, planetRE, Daren
Hamilton, +1-206-391-0255, daren@planetre.com
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