Striata partners with BTM Capital Partners

Johannesburg, 11 Aug 2010

Striata, a leading global provider of e-mail bill presentment and payment, has announced its partnership with BTM Capital Partners, specialist in business transformation management - its main focus being on financial and operational performance. The UK channel partner agreement was signed on 12 July 2010.

“This unique partnership will enable UK companies to reduce cost-to-serve and cost-to-income ratios by improving their self-service strategies, reducing operational costs, speeding up payments and enhancing customer experience and loyalty. They will also experience a rapid financial return on investment (ROI) of between six to nine months," said Mike Wright, CEO, Striata.

BTM Capital Partners transforms financial and operational performance through enhancement of processes and supply chains closely aligned to the delivery of all forms of customer communication.

This is well aligned to Striata's Email Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) service offering that has been proven to deliver an enhanced customer experience, rapid reduction in operational costs and quicker payments to businesses globally. This partnership will bring significant benefits to the SME sector, which is currently under immense pressure.

Paul Foster, Managing Partner of BTM Capital Partners, said: "We are delighted to have formed an alliance with Striata, which we see as an extremely valuable partner. It is the leading edge provider of secure electronic documents, bill presentment and payment solutions, and has great global coverage and credibility. Together, we have formed an extremely powerful value proposition.”

Striata

Striata's Secure eDocument Delivery and Email Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) are solution sets that deliver a rapid reduction in operational costs, quicker payments and an enhanced customer experience.

Striata revolutionises the way bills, statements, policies, collection notices, letters, pay-stubs and other high volume system-generated documents are delivered and paid. Registration requirements are eliminated by e-mailing feature rich, interactive, encrypted documents directly to the inbox and enabling innovative 1-click electronic payment from within the document itself. Direct e-mail delivery of bills and statements dramatically increases customer adoption of electronic documents, paper turn off and ePayments. This enables Striata's clients to achieve rapid ROI; complement their existing self-service and e-communication strategies; significantly reduce paper output and to meet their carbon footprint/environmental impact targets.

As a leading international provider of electronic messaging since 1999 with more than 200 blue chip customers, Striata has operations in New York, London, Sydney, Johannesburg, Hong Kong and partners in North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

BTM Capital Partners

BTM Capital Partners is a UK-based business that specialises in the transformation of financial and operational performance through enhancement of processes and supply chains closely aligned to key customer touch points. Our primary focus is on business functions proven to regularly engage with customers, these include sales, marketing, service operations and finance. We operate as an independent provider, free of third party investment and are well placed to provide total impartiality given no allegiance to supply chain, with the exception of our strategic relationship with global leader Striata. Our value proposition is proven to deliver cost reduction, increased profitability and enhanced customer experience. For more information, visit http://www.btmcapitalpartners.com.

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