SAN MATEO, California - February 22, 2005 -- VIP Tone, Inc., a global education enterprise software and services company, today announced a strategic partnership with Softlink, an Australian-based library software company, to become an OEM partner for Softlink's web-based library automation solution Oliver. VIP Tone will integrate the library automation product in its School MATRIX Platform to target the K-12 education market.
The School MATRIX Library module, one of the various components in VIP Tone's School MATRIX K-12 Education Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System, will be marketed to US schools and school districts nationwide as a turnkey Application Service Provider (ASP) solution, centrally hosted by VIP Tone and Softlink. Currently, the solution is hosted in a Tier 1 data center, designed by Equinix, managed and operated by IBM Global Services, and operating on an IBM platform.
"We look forward to working with Softlink America on this strategic partnership," said VIP Tone founder and CEO Robert Iskander. "The combination of Softlink's leading library solution with VIP Tone's School MATRIX platform provides a comprehensive solution for K-12 schools and districts. The School MATRIX School Portal today offers a turnkey web-based solution for teachers and students to access a complete set of enterprise applications -- ranging from a Student Information System to a Student Learning System - and it now features a complete School Library System. VIP Tone's School MATRIX Data ZoneT enables all the applications to share a common student, staff and school database leveraging VIP Tone's data integration architecture and technology."
"We are excited about this relationship with VIP Tone in the United States." said Robert Corrao, Softlink America's President. "We can now expand our client base in the US K-12 schools with VIP Tone and its strategic partners, including the Consortium for Educational Enterprise Data System (CEEDS) in the State of California."
About VIP Tone, Inc.
VIP Tone provides School MATRIX, a unique data integration and knowledge management platform, to the global K-12 education market. This platform integrates various networks for communications, computing and information, into a single, remotely managed, broadband-based secure network. VIP Tone's solution delivers a complete web-based ERP System for K-12 education. VIP Tone's major client base consists of five of the six Australian State departments of education. VIP Tone is a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., with an Australian subsidiary, VIP Tone Australia PTY, Ltd., based in Adelaide, South Australia. For more information, visit the VIP Tone web site at www.viptone.com. For more information on the Consortium of Educational Enterprise Data Systems (CEEDS) please visit www.ceeds.org.
About Softlink America
Softlink is one of the world's most well-respected library automation companies. Since the company's inception in Brisbane Australia in 1983, over 10,000 libraries in more than 100 countries have installed one of Softlink's suite of library automation products. Softlink America, Inc. has been active in the United States for more than 12 years. For more information about Softlink America and the Softlink Award, please visit the company on the web at www.softlinkamerica.com.