Mi-Co and eMiddleware Bring Digital Writing Solutions to Global Market

Linking the high tech corridors of RTP, NC, USA and London, U.K. for digital writing solutions

(PRWEB) November 24, 2003 --Mi-Co and eMiddleware announced today a strategic partnership combining the data capture and digital writing technology of the Mi-Forms Software System from Mi-Co with the world class technical services and software solution expertise of eMiddleware. This alliance will bring state of the art data capture and digital writing applications and solutions to the global market place in such key vertical areas as banking and finance, healthcare and municipal services -- as well as allowing Mi-Co to extend support and service to the UK and continental Europe.

"Mi-Co is extremely pleased that our first alliance in Europe is with an organization with a proven track record like eMiddleware", stated Barrett Joyner, senior vice president for sales and marketing at Mi-Co. The knowledge and experience of eMiddleware personnel in the area of technical solutions, data capture and digital writing--with special emphasis on the Logitech io Pen and the Tablet PC--is an excellent addition to the Mi-Co alliance program. eMiddleware has focused on solving real problems for large technology customers in the global marketplace and brings that expertise to this alliance."

eMiddleware evaluated many options for digital forms and determined that the Mi-Forms System from Mi-Co was the only complete enterprise solution for mobile data capture currently on the market. The application platform from Mi-Co is perfectly equipped to save an organization both time and money in capturing and using information. eMiddleware has several clients currently evaluating the technology and has become a premier solution provider in the digital forms, data capture and data management space.

Dean Brown, vice president of sales at eMiddleware, said "eMiddleware has recognised Mi-Cos proven track record in enterprise and highly scalable mobile data capture and management solutions and is using Mi-Co's platform to deploy advanced mobile data capture services. We believe the Mi-Co solution and approach significantly reduces the cost of deploying and managing wireless data capture implementations with an almost immediate return-on-investment."

About Mi-Co
Mi-Co, the mobile data capture company, provides digital writing software to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the entire process of capturing and using data. Mi-Co's end-to-end enterprise Mi-Forms Software System enables flexible forms design and the capture, handwriting verification and communication of forms based and free-form pen-on-paper data for enterprise users. Mi-Forms supports enterprise data capture using the Tablet PC, the Logitech io Digital Pen, Pocket PC and signature capture devices. Mi-Co's vertical markets for the Mi-Forms Software include healthcare and pharmaceuticals, financial services, public safety, and governmental services, and Mi-Co has a growing number of customers in these segments. Mi-Co is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. For more information on Mi-Co, visit Mi-Co.

About eMiddleware
eMiddleware was formed in 1998 to provide multi-channel data management via advanced middleware technology. eMiddleware has evolved to be the experts in combining the best elements of e- and m-commerce technology to work with long-established systems in new solutions which fast-track data to its destination. Traders, marketeers, analysts, sales teams, customers... no matter where or how they choose to operate, no matter what the delivery channel, with the help of eMiddleware solutions they can make an informed, effective contribution to the organization. eMiddleware now provides comprehensive solutions and technical services to their clients in three divisions -- Wireless, Data Hosting and Spreadsheet Management. eMiddleware will focus its wireless division on products in the digital writing space, both for the Logitech io Pen and Microsoft based Tablet PC, solving digital writing problems for business and public sector environments. For more information go to eMiddleware.
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