Interactive Intelligence Added to Russell 2000(R) Index

Interactive Intelligence Inc. (NASDAQ:ININ), a global developer of business communications software, was added last month to the Russell 2000® Index, a listing of U.S. stocks from industry-leading small-cap companies. The Russell 2000® Index includes U.S. stocks based on market capitalization and other value attributes, and represents a subset of the companies that make up the entire broad-market Russell 3000® Index. Membership in the Russell Index is good for one year, and results in automatic inclusion in the appropriate growth and value style indexes. "Being listed on the Russell 2000® Index further validates our financial growth, while offering us increased exposure to investors who rely on it for mutual and exchange-traded fund decisions,” said Interactive Intelligence CFO, Stephen R. Head. Last year Interactive Intelligence generated $83.2 million in revenue, a 32 percent increase over 2005 revenues. It was the top-performing 2006 Indiana stock, and the second best-performing 2006 stock on the Nasdaq, as reported by USA Today. Interactive Intelligence first released its unified communications software suite in 1997 to eliminate the cost and complexity introduced by individual point products. The IP-based software helps enterprises and contact centers manage interactions through applications such as interactive voice response, automatic call distribution and unified messaging. Annual reconstitution of Russell indexes involves evaluation of the 4,000 largest U.S. stocks as of the end of May, to create the Russell 3000® Index and Russell Microcap® Index. The largest 1,000 companies in the ranking comprise the large-cap Russell 1000® Index and the next 2,000 companies become the widely used small-cap Russell 2000® Index. These investment tools originated from Russell's multi-manager investment business in the early 1980s when the company saw the need for a more objective, market-driven set of benchmarks in order to evaluate outside investment managers. As of May 2007, Russell's indexes had $4 trillion in assets benchmarked to them, and accounted for 52 percent of assets benchmarked by institutional investors. About Russell Russell Investment Group aims to improve financial security for people by providing strategic advice, world-class implementation, state-of-the-art performance benchmarks and a range of institutional-quality investment products. With more than $200 billion in assets under management, Russell serves individual, institutional and advisor clients in more than 40 countries. Russell provides access to some of the world's best money managers. It helps investors put this access to work in corporate defined benefit and defined contribution plans, and in the life savings of individual investors. Founded in 1936, Russell is a subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and headquartered in Tacoma, Wash. Russell has principal offices in Amsterdam, Auckland, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. For more information, visit: http://www.russell.com. About Interactive Intelligence Interactive Intelligence Inc. (NASDAQ:ININ) is a global provider of business communications software and services for contact center automation and enterprise IP telephony. The company was founded in 1994 and has more than 2,500 customers worldwide. Recent awards include the 2006 Network World 200, CRM Magazine’s 2006 Rising Star Excellence Award, Network Computing Magazine’s 2006 Well-Connected Award, and Software Magazine’s 2006 Top 500 Global Software and Services Companies. Interactive Intelligence employs approximately 525 people and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company has five global corporate offices, with additional sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Interactive Intelligence can be reached at +1 317.872.3000 or info@inin.com; on the Net: http://www.inin.com. This release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: rapid technological changes in the industry; the company's ability to maintain profitability; to manage successfully its growth and increasingly complex third-party relationships; to maintain successful relationships with its current and any new partners; to maintain and improve its current products; to develop new products; to protect its proprietary rights adequately; and other factors described in the company's SEC filings, including the company's latest annual report on Form 10-K. Interactive Intelligence Inc. is the owner of the marks INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENCE, its associated LOGO and numerous other marks. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.