Snowbound Software Partners with UBTC to Deliver Powerful Imaging Technology in Japan

Partnership provides expanded Asian market for Snowbound’s high-speed imaging, viewing and collaboration technology and technical support, with UBTC’s proven industry expertise

Watertown, MA (July 17, 2007) – Snowbound Software, a leading provider of powerful, flexible, and reliable imaging technology, today announced that it has formed a partnership with Universal Business Technologies Corporation (UBTC) to further expand its presence in Japan. Headquartered in Tokyo, UBTC specializes in providing businesses with software and services addressing imaging and archiving, database marketing, and visualization requirements. The partnership will enable UBTC to deliver Snowbound’s high-speed imaging technology, including its RasterMaster™ Imaging SDK and Web-based FlexSnap® Viewing and Collaboration application to its clients. In addition, UBTC will also provide local technical support.

"Snowbound’s technology delivers critical functionality for the content management, imaging, and archiving solutions available in the marketplace," stated Kazuo Kato, chief executive officer, UBTC. “We are pleased to partner with Snowbound to offer our clients complementary imaging solutions that deliver the speed and reliability Snowbound is known for within the industry. Our customers expect top-performing applications to enhance their productivity and remain competitive in their respective marketplaces. Combining our solutions and expertise with technology offered by partners such as Snowbound enables us to continue to meet these expectations.”

Snowbound Software’s Director of Business Development, William Martin commented "UBTC's expertise in content management and visualization applications is a great fit with Snowbound’s core offerings. Partnering with UBTC will extend Snowbound Software’s global reach and further meet the needs of our customers in Japan."

Snowbound’s powerful FlexSnap Web-based viewer and collaboration application delivers high-speed viewing combined with flexible document and image handling capabilities, enabling users to process documents more efficiently. RasterMaster is Snowbound’s flagship imaging SDK and Library that provides automated document imaging functions that decrease application development time. Its user-friendly API enables developers with limited or no imaging knowledge to incorporate robust imaging capabilities, expert functionality and features such as conversion, annotation, and image manipulation into their applications.

For more than a decade, Snowbound has been developing highly-efficient imaging solutions for document management and records management developers, managers, and integrators worldwide. Snowbound’s global customer base includes thousands of developers and millions of installations spanning a variety of industries, including banking and financial, insurance, government, healthcare, and manufacturing.

About Universal Business Technologies Corporation (UBTC)

Universal Business Technologies Corporation provides unique business solutions for organizations in Japan the fields of document imaging, ECM/BPM, Database marketing and visualization. UBTC is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. For more information please visit www.ubtc.jp.

About Snowbound Software

Snowbound Software develops technology that makes viewing, converting, and manipulating documents and images easy. Snowbound's expert imaging toolkits, powerful web viewers, and rapid batch conversion applications accurately support numerous file formats and are designed to increase productivity and profitability across many vertical markets. For more information please visit www.snowbound.com.

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