eGain Solution for Customer Service Receives KM World Magazine`s `Trend-Setting Product of the Year` Award for Second Year in a Row

Released on = September 6, 2006, 10:38 am

Press Release Author = eGain Communications

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Industry\'s first-ever hosted customer interaction management
solution enables enterprises to quickly and easily deploy multichannel customer
service systems

Press Release Body = Mountain View, Calif. (September 6, 2006): eGain Communications
Corp. (OTC BB: EGAN.OB), provider of the industry\'s top-rated* customer service and
contact center software for in-house or on-demand deployment, announced today that
KMWorld (www.kmworld.com) has named eGain OnDemand as a recipient of the KMWorld
\"Trend-Setting Products of the Year\" award for 2006.

Now in its fourth year, KMWorld\'s Trend-Setting Products awards program honors
companies whose products hold promise for the knowledge management marketplace,
emphasizing knowledge management as an approach to delivering solutions to an
organization, its workers and its customers. KMWorld editors selected its list of
Trend-Setting Products after evaluating input from experts including colleagues,
analysts and users-from C-level executives to entry-level knowledge workers.

\"Assembling the list of Trend-Setting Products of 2006 is a year-long collaborative
effort with editorial colleagues and analysts and, especially, users,\" says Hugh
McKellar, KMWorld editor in chief. \"A pioneering solution, eGain OnDemand is a
proven customer service solution that has enjoyed success in the mid-market as well
as the most demanding enterprises.\"

\"eGain OnDemand helps businesses rapidly set up customer interaction hubs for
effective, efficient, and consistent multichannel customer service and improved
contact center performance,\" said Ashu Roy, CEO of eGain. \"We are delighted to be,
once again, recognized by KMWorld as a market leader for adding strategic business
value to our customers.\"

The \"Trend-Setting Products of the Year\" winners for 2006 will be published in the
September issue of KMWorldŽ magazine.

About eGain OnDemand
eGain OnDemand is the industry's first-ever hosted customer service software. Proven
in mission-critical, large-scale deployments for more than eight years, the solution
enables companies to get single or multichannel customer service operations up and
running quickly, without requiring extensive IT resources. Some businesses have
chosen eGain OnDemand to prove business value before investing in the company\'s
on-premise solution. With eGain, the transition from on-demand to in-house
deployment and vice versa is uniquely seamless, virtually eliminating risk in the
solution acquisition process. For additional information on eGain OnDemand, visit:
http://www.egain.com/products/on_demand.asp

About KMWorld
The leading information provider serving the knowledge management systems market,
KMWorld covers the latest in Content, Document and Knowledge Management and informs
more than 51,000 subscribers about the components and processes - and subsequent
success stories - that together offer solutions for improving business performance.

About eGain
eGain (OTC: EGAN.OB) is a leading provider of customer service and contact center
software for in-house or on-demand deployment. Trusted by prominent enterprises and
growing midsize companies worldwide, eGain has been helping organizations achieve
and sustain customer service excellence for more than a decade. 24 of the 50 largest
global companies rely on eGain to transform their traditional call centers, help
desks, and web customer service operations into multichannel customer interaction
hubs. These hubs enable dramatically improved customer experience, unified
multichannel customer service, end-to-end service process efficiencies, and enhanced
contact center performance.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, eGain has an operating presence in 18
countries and serves over 800 enterprise customers worldwide. To find out more about
eGain, visit www.eGain.com or call the company\'s offices: 800-821-4358 (United
States), 1753-464646 (UK and rest of Europe).

Source: 2005 Patricia Seybold Group\'s bull\'s eye reports on cross-channel,
cross-lifecycle customer service - overall capabilities, knowledge management,
architecture and analytics; 2005 Forrester Wave report on eService

eGain, the eGain logo, and all other eGain product names and slogans are trademarks
or registered trademarks of eGain Communications Corp. in the United States and/or
other countries. All other company names and products mentioned in this release may
be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies.

eGain media contact:

Maeve Naughton
Tel: 650-230-7449
Email: pr@egain.com

Web Site = http://www.egain.com

Contact Details = Jamie Abayan
jabayan@egain.com
650-230-7532
345 E. Middlefield Rd
Mountain View, CA 94043

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