B4 Consulting®, helping companies grow with SAP® software, services and support, and ELO Digital Office, a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced a strategic reseller agreement. B4 Consulting will be the exclusive reseller of the ELO portfolio of ECM solutions to SAP customers throughout North America. The ELO solutions, easily integrated with SAP and other third-party applications, offer comprehensive electronic document management, digital archiving, and workflow management.

"ELO solutions will enrich our SAP offerings and enable our customers to take full control of all their content spanning back office data, knowledge management, and email life-cycle management," said Klaus Schottenhamel, president & CEO of B4 Consulting. "Moreover, ELO will help to advance our mobility solution portfolio and the effectiveness of our SAP solutions across a range of industries and company sizes -- boosting employee productivity, encouraging collaboration and making information easier to share."

"As we grow our partner network in North America, we are delighted to be working with B4 Consulting and consider our partnership a milestone in the integration of ELO ECM into SAP environments," noted Karl Heinz Mosbach, CEO of ELO Digital Office. "As a leading SAP partner and the go-to partner for SAP solutions in real estate, construction, engineering, field services and professional services, B4 Consulting has the industry expertise and geographic presence to help expand our market share in North America."

Making Information Easy to Share - Regardless of Company Size
The ELO portfolio for ECM consists of: ELOoffice, an entry?level solution for small companies and independent contractors; ELOprofessional, a modular client-server solution for mid?sized companies; and ELOenterprise, a platform?neutral, highly-scalable and multi-client solution for large companies. Fully compatible with each other, all systems deliver core ECM functionality including:

  • Document Management with version control, security and library services for business documents.
  • Image Processing to capture, transform and manage images of paper documents.
  • Workflow/Business Process Management routes content, assigns work tasks and states, and creates audit trails.
  • Records Management enables long-term retention of content through automation of policies, ensuring legal, regulatory and industry compliance.
  • Web Content Management controls the content and influences the interactions of a Web experience through the use of specific management tools based on a core repository.
  • Social Content allows for document sharing, collaboration, knowledge management and project team support of which blogs, wikis and support for other online interactions.
  • Email and Digital Asset Management for document composition, e-forms, search, content and analytics, information archiving, and packaged application integration.

About B4 Consulting, Inc.
An SAP gold channel partner that has achieved Partner Center of Expertise certification from SAP, B4 Consulting integrates business processes and technologies globally for customers who want to grow their businesses using SAP solutions. B4 Consulting, Inc. and B4 Consulting (Canada) are authorized to resell and implement the mid-market portfolio of SAP solutions and help large enterprises accelerate the time-to-value of SAP Business Suite solutions. Advancing SAP Best Practices with a team of solution architects, B4 Consulting has the largest practice in North America that supports SAP solutions for engineering, construction, real estate, heavy equipment management, field services, and service-related industries. www.b4-consulting.com Follow Us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/b4consulting

About ELO Digital Office GmbH
ELO Digital Office is a manufacturer of powerful software for electronic document management, digital archiving, and workflow management. ELO Digital Office separated from the Louis Leitz Group as an independent unit in 1998. The company is managed by Karl Heinz Mosbach, CEO, and Matthias Thiele, CTO. ELO employs about 450 employees worldwide and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. ELO has branch offices in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. Over 600,000 workstations are currently supported worldwide with a close?meshed network of system partners. In addition, ELO maintains technology partnerships with software and hardware manufacturers. Additional info: www.elo.com.

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B4 Consulting, Inc.
Jacquelyn Thrasivoulos, +1 508 380 6408
Media Relations
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ELO Digital Office
Tobias Bumm, +49 711 806089-16
Press Officer
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