Leading software reseller signs agreement to market HipLinkXS to vast B2B customer base
SAN JOSE, California, December 10, 2001- Semotus Solutions, the Wireless Architects™ (AMEX: DLK), a leading provider of mobile enterprise applications, today announced a partnership agreement with Softchoice, the leading B2B reseller of personal computer software in Canada with a rapidly expanding North American presence, including 29 U.S. branches.
“HipLinkXS is a strong addition to our extensive software title base; many of our customers need a messaging solution that easily integrates with their existing applications, such as NetIQ, Remedy, Peregrine, and a variety of eCommerce packages. We are pleased to provide HipLinkXS as a valuable solution for our customers,” said Dave MacDonald, VP Sales and COO, Softchoice.
HipLinkXS will be advertised on the Softchoice website, where 50% of sales for the reseller are generated. Additionally, the product will be featured in the Softchoice quarterly and annually published catalogs. Softchoice’s key marketing strategy is a focus on unparalleled customer service; a customer can be sure of speaking on the phone with a “live” representative anytime during the business week, with extended evening hours, without waiting on hold first. Targeting the small to medium business market, Softchoice has a customer base of over 10,000 buying accounts.
“The reseller agreement with Softchoice immediately positions HipLinkXS in another targeted market – the small to medium B2B niche,” states Valerie Goodwin, Semotus Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. “Softchoice offers customers expert advice and service, and is an invaluable addition to the HipLinkXS distribution channel. We expect this agreement to immediately generate revenue for Semotus, foreseeable as early as the first quarter.”
HipLinkXS is a powerful, state-of-the-art messaging solution. HipLinkXS enables delivery of critical messages to and from the field with the customer’s choice of carriers and devices, and is designed to fully integrate with any enterprise application. HipLinkXS provides the seamless and rapid link between applications, clients, customers, partners and employees. Users can send messages and request a response back from the receiver, with the ability to automatically trigger server processes based on the response from the field.
HipLinkXS provides a significant value proposition for corporations to generally improve customer service while reducing costs and increasing premise/mobile workforce efficiency and productivity. For a free trial download of HipLinkXS, visit www.hiplinkwireless.com
About Softchoice
Founded in 1989, Softchoice is a North American business-to-business direct marketer of software products. The company sells to a range of customers from small organizations with as few as 25 personal computers (PC’s) to multinational corporations by providing a fast, personalized, and cost effective way to research, buy and manage software resources. Softchoice sells PC software by way of volume licenses and shrink-wrapped, full-packaged products. Softchoice was formed to alleviate the productivity struggle associated with lack of centralized information on software. The company addressed this customer need by developing an extensive database of information which includes approximately 200,000 discrete products, representing 25,000 software applications from approximately 4,000 publishers. Softchoice assists customers by consulting, managing and tracking the complexities of software compliancy and licensing programs. Softchoice currently has 36 branches in operation with 31 branches located in the U.S. and five branches in Canada. For more information please visit www.softchoice.com
About Semotus Solutions - The Wireless Architects(TM)
Semotus Solutions (AMEX: DLK) is a leading provider of mobile enterprise application software that connects mobile employees to critical business systems, information, and processes. Semotus Solutions help mobile employees make better and faster decisions, increase customer satisfaction, and improve efficiencies in their business processes for shorter sales and service cycles.
With a growing enterprise customer base of more than 600 corporations like AOL Time Warner, Alcatel, Lucent Technologies, JP Morgan-Chase, Coca-Cola, Dow Jones, extended over vertical markets of workforce automation, finance, healthcare, and m-commerce, Semotus is the proven choice for mobile application software that can be wirelessly integrated with existing systems to maximize productivity and reliability.
Semotus Solutions mobile enterprise application software provides mobility, convenience, efficiency and profitability. Semotus Solutions is headquartered in San Jose, California, with research facilities and sales offices throughout North America. For more information on our mobile application software, please visit www.semotus.com.
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