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Cardiff Software Announces Graduate Associates as Channel Partner for LiquidOffice™

Brentford, UK - 2002-10-16 - Cardiff Software Ltd., a leading global provider of business process-automation solutions, today announced Graduate Associates as a Channel Partner for LiquidOffice?, Cardiff's market-leading eForm management solution.

Headquartered in London, Graduate Associates is an established and respected solutions provider delivering business automation solutions to large corporate enterprises and organisations across a diverse range of market sectors. The addition of LiquidOffice to Graduate Associate's portfolio of business solutions and its strong presence in the finance and banking sector will serve to further establish Cardiff as the leading provider of eForm management solution to this industry.

Cardiff is committed to providing outstanding training and marketing support to hand-picked, high quality partners such as Graduate Associates. These features of the Cardiff partner program, coupled with the powerful functionality and versatility of Cardiff's solutions, proved vital in securing Graduate Associates as a Cardiff reseller partner.

Paul Hatcher, managing director of Graduate Associates comments, "In a time when businesses are looking for ways to streamline processes and reduce costs, Cardiff LiquidOffice provides us with the ulitmate solution for addressing that demand. By enabling our customers to automatically manage the routing, tracking and approval processes of electronic forms, LiquidOffice virtually eliminates the costs associated with manual form processing."

Tim Dubes, Cardiff's vice president of Sales & Marketing EMEA comments, "Graduate Associates has carved out a niche in the financial and banking industry that will be well served by LiquidOffice's eForm management capabilities. As a LiquidOffice Channel Partner, Graduate Associates enhances our global network of value added resellers."

About Cardiff Software Ltd.
Cardiff Software is a leading global provider of business process automation solutions. Cardiff helps organisations gain tremendous advantages by automating their core business processes. Cardiff has a global distribution network spanning every continent and more than 20.000 customers worldwide.

For more information on Cardiff, see http://www.europe.cardiff.com.


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