Business Services Provider Strengthens Portfolio with Powerful Data Capture Solution

Helsinki, Finland and Munich, Germany (24 July, 2012) - Itella Information and ABBYY Europe today announced that Itella has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the ABBYY Europe Solution Partner Programme. The certification strengthens the relationship between Itella, a leading financial processes and business process outsourcing provider in Europe, and ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies.

Itella has achieved Gold Certified Partner status by demonstrating expertise with ABBYY Data Capture technologies and a proven ability to meet customers' needs. ABBYY Europe Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including partner portal access, product training and support, all of which gives them a competitive advantage in the market.

"Companies of all sizes are actively trying to optimise specific business processes and improve the quality of data handling," says Christian Scherf, Director of Product Strategy at Itella. "Itella supplies highly automated and best-in-class processes for incoming documents using ABBYY´s enterprise capture platform, FlexiCapture. This service, which is offered on-demand, enables Itella's customers to improve the efficiency of business operations without having to incur a significant upfront investment cost."

ABBYY FlexiCapture enables Itella to offer intelligent digitising and inbound document processing solutions related to almost any type of business process. Using ABBYY technology the company is able to improve its offering in its Digitizing Services division and further grow its customer base. By enhancing its competitive capacity Itella is able to process annually over 100 million paper, fax or e-mail documents in over 20 countries.

"We place tremendous value on our relationships with partners who help us deliver solutions and applications to customers. Itella has demonstrated a long track record in providing expert and high-quality customer service using ABBYY FlexiCapture technology," states Bodo Wagener, Vice President of European Sales for ABBYY Europe. "Customers need to rely on trusted advisers to help guide them through the available business technology options. Itella Information is such an adviser and we are therefore pleased to award them Gold Certified status in our European Solution Partner Programme."

The services are available in all countries where Itella or its partners operate. For more information please go to: www.itella.com/information

To learn more about becoming an ABBYY Europe Certified Solution Partner in your country, please go to: http://www.abbyy.com/partners/trainings/

About Itella Information
Itella Information provides financial process services and cash flow automation solutions that improve its customers' profitability and agility. Our services cover all aspects of financial management: from purchase order to payment and from sales order to management of incoming cash flow, plus a full range of accounting and payroll services. With the benefits of scale, automated processes and best practices, we ensure that our customers' financial processes are managed in an efficient, professional and flexible manner.

Itella Information operates in 11 European countries and employs more than 2,000 professional staff. In 2011, it had a turnover of EUR 273.7 million. The Itella Information division is part of the Itella Group. For more information, go to www.itella.com.

About ABBYY UK Ltd.
ABBYY UK is a member of the ABBYY Group and supports sales and marketing activities in Western Europe. ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. ABBYY offers Professional Services to help customers implementing business solutions based on ABBYY's products. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the UK, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.

ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, ADRT, Lingvo, FlexiCapture, Recognition Server, and PDF Transformer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized.

For more information, please contact:

ABBYY
Colin Miller
Elsenheimerstrasse 49
D - 80687 Munich
Tel.: 089/511 159-0
Fax: 089/511 159-59
E-Mail: press_eu@abbyy.com
Web: www.ABBYY.com

PR for ABBYY
AxiCom UK
Amy Elston
+44 (0) 208 392 4081
amy.elston@axicom.com

Itella Information
Christian Scherf, Director of Product Strategy, Itella Information
Tel.:+49 162 4212188
Christian.scherf@itella.com
www.itella.com/information