Basware recognizes excellent partner achievements in 2007

Basware, leading provider of financial process automation software, today announced its partners of the year 2007. The award, received at Basware’s annual partner conference in Barcelona, recognized excellent achievements in three different categories. Swiss Arcplace AG was recognized as Best Newcomer in 2007, German Foxray for recording Biggest Growth in Sales and Dutch I Creative was awarded for Best Overall Performance.

“These award-winning partners have shown very professional attitude towards building the Basware business by building the sales competency, delivery capability and aggressive marketing to chosen segments with a very clear focus.  The purchase to pay sector is growing and the demand for our solutions is increasing. We look forward to achieving even better results this year with our key partners,” says Jaakko Elovaara, Vice President, Global Channel Sales.

Basware’s partner network currently spans more than 70 resellers globally. Partner agreement with Swiss Arcplace AG was signed in March 2007. “We are very pleased to have received the award as Best Newcomer 2007. We have enjoyed working with Basware very much and are grateful for the highly professional support and are looking forward to a successful year 2008 with many interesting projects,” Robbert Spierings, Managing Director of Arcplace AG.

Basware continues to extend its partner network especially in North America and Europe. In 2007, the partner network provided 15 percent of product sales. German Foxray has been partnering with Basware since 2005. “We have been able to acquire a number of international projects with well known customers and we are looking forward to the next projects with Basware. The invoice automation solution, that is a significant part of the value chain, and our Xbound integration platform bring significant savings especially to Financial Shared Service Centers. Together with Basware we are able to offer a complete end-to-end solution that differentiates us from the competition,” says Torsten Malchow, Chief Sales Officer, Foxray AG.

I Creative was awarded for the second consecutive year. “The successes we’ve achieved over the last few years have been the result of hard work and a tremendous cooperation with our customers,” says Erik van Doorn, Managing Director of I Creative. “Customer satisfaction and service orientation are fundamental in I Creative’s operations which also reflected repeatedly in the results of customer satisfaction surveys. The combination of Basware as the leader in Invoice Automation solutions and I Creative as implementation specialists, has maintained the lead position over competition as in previous years,” adds van Doorn.

To learn more about Basware partner program please visit www.basware.com/partners.

For more information, please contact:
Vice President Jaakko Elovaara, Basware Corp., tel: +1 203 517 5446