Crawford Technologies Announces VAR Agreement with QC Soft srl

PRLog (Press Release) - Jan 20, 2009 -
London and Toronto  - Crawford Technologies Inc., the award-winning provider of print-stream transformation and document re-engineering software, announced today that QC Soft srl in Italy is now a Value-Added Reseller for CrawfordTech’s full suite of enterprise software solutions.

QC Soft srl, headquartered in Milan, Italy, specializes in high-volume transactional output solutions and technologies with a deep understanding of AFP, Xerox Metacode, PDF and XML. Founded in 2002, it includes Enel, Banca Intesa SanPaolo, Equitalia and Acea Electrabel among its customers. QC Soft will focus on supplying CrawfordTech’s range of award-winning products to new and existing clients across Italy.

“QC Soft is an important addition to our partner network”, said Stewart Rogers, General Manager for European Operations at Crawford Technologies. “The interest being shown in CrawfordTech’s full range of document re-engineering and print-stream transformation products in the region is now backed up by a dedicated and experienced company. QC Soft’s commitment to Crawford marks another step in the planned expansion of our European operations.”

The announcement of this new VAR further underlines Crawford’s commitment to the region.

“Crawford is an important acquisition for our portfolio of solutions”, said Luca Grasso, General Manager at QC Soft srl. “It allows us to maintain a high level of available solutions and with Crawford we will be able to match the needs of our marketplace. Crawford’s range of solutions also helps us to complete our systems integration proposition in the Italian market.”

“The addition of a second major VAR within six months further underlines our commitment to providing our range of solutions to the European marketplace.”, adds Stuart Warner, VP Marketing & Sales at Crawford Technologies. “QC Soft’s pedigree and client list makes it a key addition to the Crawford family, and we look forward to announcing our first results together in the near future.”.

About QC Soft srl.
Founded in 2002, QC Soft srl is a specialist consultant in output creation, management and transformation. Headquartered in Milan, Italy, with offices in Naples, QC Soft provide consultancy, systems integration and project management services to clients in the banking, utilities, government, print service bureau and financial services industries. QC Soft partners with companies such as Crawford Technologies, Metavante, ASG, Pitney Bowes and Xerox.

Visit www.qcsoft.it for further information.

About Crawford Technologies Inc.
Since 1995, Crawford Technologies’ award-winning solutions have helped over 500 companies around the world reduce costs associated with communications processes by delivering mission-critical transactional communications to their customers in the format they need, when they need it. With CrawfordTech’s range of unique software products and services, our clients simplify, automate and extend document delivery cost effectively - irrespective of current, legacy or future standards in infrastructure or document output.
These clients, including four of the top five US banks, four of the top five US insurance companies and four of the world’s top five car manufacturers, are realizing high-value results as:

- Costs associated with document processes are minimized through automation.
- New opportunities for savings across critical communications are realized.
- They react quickly to changes in regulations, policies, business requirements and technical infrastructure.

CrawfordTech’s quality software, expert support and print business knowledge help clients to meet operational, service, marketing, legal and standards requirements and automate the delivery of billions of communications to their customers annually. Simply put, companies look to Crawford Technologies for our platform-independent approach, leading system performance and superior output fidelity. Please visit www.crawfordtech.com to find out more about our customers, people, partners, products and solutions.

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In the EU:

Crawford Technologies, Inc.
European Operations
5 Wormwood Street
London EC2M 1RQ
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 3239 4723
srogers@crawfordtech.com

In North and South America, Australia and Asia:

Crawford Technologies, Inc.
Media Relations
(416) 410-1467
media@crawfordtech.com