OTTAWA, Ontario and Chicago, IL – (May 13, 2009) – The Long Reach Corporation and Intelestream, Inc. today announced that Intelestream has been appointed the sole US National Level Partner for info@hand. The partnership will allow Intelestream to engage more closely with new info@hand clients, execute strategic implementations, and become an additional resource for current US-based info@hand customers.
"We are extremely excited to take our partnership to the next level. Especially during these economic times, we have seen a spike in customers transitioning from high cost, proprietary applications to the info@hand business software suite. The result has been a significant reduction in costs and customers are not losing a step when it comes to functionality,"
The Long Reach Corporation's President and CEO Michael Whitehead, remarked, "Intelestream has been an integral part of our US growth strategy and it is a natural fit to have them become an exclusive National Level partner. Their experience with our solution and deep domain expertise has already resulted in countless successful projects."
Intelestream continues to invest in significant info@hand development and consulting resources in order to increase capacity to execute the professional services required for each project. Also, Intelestream has begun rapid development on info@hand "approved products" and will continue to build add-on products and integration enhancements to the platform. Intelestream's Chief Operating Officer Richard Baldwin, who has twenty years of experience working with CRM systems, stated the following, "info@hand has been and will continue to be a central source of our consulting and professional services business. Their Customer Relationship and Business Management Solution continues to outpace other products in the marketplace and we are strategically aligning ourselves with the best CRM vendor in the world."
About Intelestream, Inc.
Intelestream Inc. is a Chicago based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm that offers solutions related to business processes and CRM technology. Intelestream specializes in the deployment of custom tailored CRM solutions for individual organizations, the development of industry specific software verticals, and value added enhancements to the open source CRM software applications. With Intelestream's diverse team of experts in both business and technology, the company is made up by many of the brightest minds in the CRM industry. For further information about Intelestream, please visit the company's website: http://www.intelestream.net, or call (800) 244-3775.
About The Long Reach
The Long Reach Corp. specializes in software solutions that equip small- and medium-sized organizations with integrated online business information while improving their cost model and streamlining their internal business processes. The company’s flagship product, info@hand, is a web-based system that blends best-of-breed CRM with extended business management features for Accounting, ERP and eCommerce. info@hand provides “Instant Business Information, Anywhere” at every desk within an organization, or remotely via PC, Mac or handheld devices. The privately held company was founded in 1997 and is based in Ottawa, Canada.
