Abacus NL nominated as exclusive Distribution Partner for the Benelux

Monday 9th December 2002

Abacus NL, the largest distributor of Business software in the Netherlands, has been chosen as the exclusive distributor of Orbis Software for the Benelux countries.

Abacus distributes various software products to its client base of over 600 Dutch resellers. The success of Abacus is not only the product range but also the knowledge and expertise of these products. This in combination with the value added services for the reseller channel and the marketing power makes Abacus the ultimate partner for Orbis Software.

Loe Hameleers CEO of Abacus, said "The Orbis Software partnership represents a key component within our strategic product offering. We can now provide our channel with a powerful range of Automation and Alerting products that in turn will enable our end users to automate and advance their business processes. New business for ERP software is becoming smaller and Orbis Software opens an opportunity for our resellers to produce new business from their current end user installed base. Since the introduction of Orbis in the Dutch reseller channel in May this year we can already conclude that it was a great success. All major resellers in the Netherlands signed up for our partner program and we hope to welcome our 50th partner for the end of this year."

Orbis TaskCentre® Alerting and Automation server provides a scalable enterprise product suite of unparalleled power and extensibility for organisations of any size. By building one-off Tasks that contain Actions, Orbis will supply a host of advanced automation and workflow processes.

"Abacus NL is ideally suited to be a distribution partner for us and support our technology throughout the Benelux", said Philip Smith, MD of Orbis Software. "They are the leading distributor and have become a primary distributor for many other major software vendors such as Exact Software and Unit 4 Agresso.

Orbis Software

Orbis Software is a leading author of enterprise business alerting and automation software, helping organisations drive efficiency and business processes. Founded in 1997, Orbis Software Ltd provides a scalable suite of applications to suit any size of organisation. There are more than 2000 organisations around the world already using Orbis products, including such names as Nasdaq, Telstar, BP, BDO Stoy Hayward, GE Capital Equipment, The Rank Group, Salomon Brothers, Zenith, BUPA, Jaguar, Lloyds TSB, and Rolls Royce to name just a few.

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As the largest distributor of ERP software such as Exact Software and Unit 4 Agresso we were always dealing with the question how to make this software part of the business process instead of a registration tool of financial and logistic transactions. Orbis solves this question and is the missing link between these software products and their users. The most passive and non-learning employee in each company is their database. You always ask the database for the same information, day in, day out and it still does not learn. With Orbis you can solve this problem and the database finally starts talking to you.