Business Services Provider Strengthens Portfolio with Powerful Data Capture Solution

Helsinki, Finland and Munich, Germany (24 July, 2012) - Itella Information and ABBYY Europe today announced that Itella has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the ABBYY Europe Solution Partner Programme. The certification strengthens the relationship between Itella, a leading financial processes and business process outsourcing provider in Europe, and ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies.

Itella has achieved Gold Certified Partner status by demonstrating expertise with ABBYY Data Capture technologies and a proven ability to meet customers' needs. ABBYY Europe Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including partner portal access, product training and support, all of which gives them a competitive advantage in the market.

“Companies of all sizes are actively trying to optimise specific business processes and improve the quality of data handling,” says Christian Scherf, Director of Product Strategy at Itella. “Itella supplies highly automated and best-in-class processes for incoming documents using ABBYY´s enterprise capture platform, FlexiCapture. This service, which is offered on-demand, enables Itella's customers to improve the efficiency of business operations without having to incur a significant upfront investment cost.”

ABBYY FlexiCapture enables Itella to offer intelligent digitising and inbound document processing solutions related to almost any type of business process. Using ABBYY technology the company is able to improve its offering in its Digitizing Services division and further grow its customer base. By enhancing its competitive capacity Itella is able to process annually over 100 million paper, fax or e-mail documents in over 20 countries.

“We place tremendous value on our relationships with partners who help us deliver solutions and applications to customers. Itella has demonstrated a long track record in providing expert and high-quality customer service using ABBYY FlexiCapture technology,” states Bodo Wagener, Vice President of European Sales for ABBYY Europe. “Customers need to rely on trusted advisers to help guide them through the available business technology options. Itella Information is such an adviser and we are therefore pleased to award them Gold Certified status in our European Solution Partner Programme.”

The services are available in all countries where Itella or its partners operate. For more information please go to: www.itella.com/information

To learn more about becoming an ABBYY Europe Certified Solution Partner in your country, please go to:  http://www.abbyy.com/partners/trainings/