Kerridge Commercial Systems and Bottomline announce strategic partnership

Kerridge Commercial Systems provides rapid BACSTEL-IP Migration Path for its customers in the Distribution industry.

(March 2005) Kerridge Commercial Systems, leading software supplier of total solutions to the distribution industry, has announced a partnership with Bottomline Technologies, a leading global technology provider of financial Business Process Management (fBPM) software and managed services to ease the migration path for its customers.

Through its partnership with Bottomline Technologies, Kerridge Commercial Systems' customers will be able to take advantage of Bottomline's market-leading BACSTEL-IP subscription service to expedite migration and create long-term payment process efficiencies. Organisations across the UK have less than ten months to deploy BACSTEL-IP compliant systems before the 31 December 2005 migration deadline.

"As a way to help our customers meet the approaching BACSTEL-IP deadline, we believe that a partnership with Bottomline Technologies offers them the best possible solution," said Ian Bendelow, Business Development Director, Kerridge Commercial Systems. "The combination of Bottomline's convenient BACTEL-IP service with the financial products and services from Kerridge Commercial Systems that they already use, predictably delivers the most efficient path to compliance."

"In partnering with Bottomline, Kerridge Commercial Systems is able to ensure that its customers reap the financial benefits of a fast and timely migration to BACSTEL-IP in the short-term, while also enabling them to take advantage of the enormous long-term efficiencies and cost-savings of the Bottomline payments platform," said Tim Miller, Vice President of Channel Alliances EMEA for Bottomline Technologies