Tobit Software Limited and Orbis Software Alliance Partnership

Wednesday 12th March 2003

Orbis Software the market leader in automation and alerting and Tobit Software the leading provider of messaging solutions, have today announced a strategic alliance partnership to provide a totally integrated automation and messaging solution.

The solution will enable customers to easily build powerful automated business processes based upon their current databases and accounting systems and then use Tobit's messaging products to deliver the information via Fax, SMS or E-Mail.

There are many examples of such automated processes from a simple daily email notification reference low stock items, to a more complex and entirely automated credit control process, which will produce escalated debt chasing letters and either fax or email them to the associated customers with outstanding and overdue debts.

Philip Smith, MD of Orbis Software said "Quite simply Orbis uses the universal standards of ODBC to connect with practically any information system and data source. It's very easy to build the rules for your processes, and now through integration with Tobit, customers can use a single messaging server to deliver both email and fax messages. The need to integrate was driven by the large number of resellers that recommend both Tobit and Orbis products."

Mark Hollingsworth, UK MD of Tobit Software said "Tobit products are already widely used by resellers and ISV's to message-enable business applications including accounting and CRM. Our software can act as a scaleable, back-end messaging platform and its open architecture makes it easy to integrate with. The partnership with Orbis further extends the opportunities for resellers to add-value through messaging and simplifies their implementation process."

Orbis Software

Orbis Software is a leader 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.

Tobit Software

Founded in 1986, Tobit Software AG is one of the world's leading developers of unified messaging software. The company employs a team of over 100 people at its head quarters in Germany and it's products are available in 38 countries. Tobit Software Limited was founded in 1997 and has rapidly established itself as the leading supplier of unified messaging and fax software in the UK, working through a nationwide network of more then 400 authorised resellers.