TIE forms strategic partnerships with leading technology manufacturers, resellers, and system integrators to deliver advanced technology in the areas of enterprise XML/EDI, master data management, multi-channel publishing, and supply chain collaboration. The TIE Global Partner Program includes relationships such as certified TIE integrator programs, partner-alliance reseller programs, co-marketing and referral programs to imbeded technology relationships.

• Expand your company's ability to meet global eBusiness demands fast
• Benefit from industry experts who specialize in connecting businesses electronically
• Profit by extending functionality far beyond current solution limitations

Epicor

Epicor, named one of FORTUNE magazine's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in 2006, is a global leader dedicated to providing integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and professional service automation (PSA) software solutions to midmarket companies and divisions of the Global 1000. Founded in 1984, Epicor serves over 20,000 customers in more than 140 countries, providing solutions in over 30 languages. Employing innovative service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services technology, Epicor delivers end-to-end, industry-specific solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services that enable companies to drive increased efficiency, improve performance and build competitive advantage. Epicor solutions provide the scalability and flexibility to meet today's business challenges, while empowering enterprises for even greater success tomorrow. Epicor offers a comprehensive range of services with its solutions, providing a single point of accountability to promote rapid return on investment and low total cost of ownership. www.epicor.com

Microsoft

Microsoft is motivated and inspired every day by how their customers use Microsoft software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. Microsoft runs its business in much the same way, and believes its three core business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve their customers: Platform Products and Services Division (including the Client Group, the Server and Tools Group, and the Online Services Group), Business Division (including the Information Worker Group, the Microsoft Business Solutions Group, and the Unified Communications Group), and Entertainment and Devices Division (including the Home & Entertainment Group and the Mobile & Embedded Devices Group). Microsoft is committed long term to the mission of helping their customers realize their full potential. www.microsoft.com.

TIE is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

SAP

SAP Americas is a subsidiary of SAP AG, the world's largest business software company and the third-largest software supplier overall. SAP Americas' corporate headquarters is located in Newtown Square, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. Our officers and executives lead a team of professionals dedicated to delivering high-level customer support and services.

Founded in 1972 as Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing, SAP has a rich history of innovation and growth that has made us the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries ñ in every major market. The company, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, employs more than 39,300 people in more than 50 countries, and serves more than 41,200 customers worldwide. www.sap.com

Oracle

The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle is the only vendor to offer solutions for every tier of your business -- database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration. With Oracle, you get information that helps you measure results, improve business processes, and communicate a single truth to your constituents. www.oracle.com

EDS

EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry 45 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world. www.eds.com

HP

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.

No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs. www.hp.com

Sun

Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage, and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.

By investing in research and development Sun creates products and services that address the complex issues that customers face today, including increasing demands for network access, bandwidth and storage being driven by explosive growth in network participation and sharing. We innovate at all levels of the system and we partner with market leaders to provide value and choice for our customers.

Sun's network computing infrastructure solutions are used in a wide range of industries including technical/scientific, business, engineering, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, retail, government, life sciences, media and entertainment, transportation, energy/utilities and healthcare. www.sun.com

Redhat

Founded in 1993, Red Hat is the premier Linux and open source provider. Rated as CIO Insight Magazine's Most Valued Vendor for the second consecutive year, Red Hat maintains the highest value and reliability rankings among its customers, and is the most recognized Linux brand in the world. We serve global enterprises through technology and services made possible by the open source model. Solutions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platforms, sold through a subscription model, and a broad range of services: consulting, 24x7 support, Red Hat Network. Red Hat's global training program operates in more than 60 locations worldwide and features RHCE, the global standard Linux certification. www.redhat.com

Cleo

Cleo Communications provides reliable, secure data transfer software and services that enable users to easily establish and manage communications sessions, and easily integrate these solutions into their mission-critical applications. Solutions include Internet communications, 3270 /5250 mainframe and midrange connectivity, data synchronization, and legacy 3780 connections.

Cleo's products have been proven in over 100,000 worldwide installations. Customers in the manufacturing, retail, IVR, healthcare, and financial services industries, among others, rely on our products and services to help them achieve complete automated data transfer solutions.

For most applications, we adapt our core capabilities to deliver tailored communications solutions providing exceptional value to users. We have established OEM partnerships with leading vertical-market application solution providers, and we also work directly with many end-user organizations to meet their specific data transfer needs.

Our business partners and end-user customers prefer Cleo for our ability to provide the highest-quality communications products backed by superior service and support. www.cleo.com