170 Systems Inc., a provider of document management and business process management software for Global 1000 enterprises, has signed partnership agreements with BOSS Corp. and Nascent Systems.

170 Systems Inc., a provider of document management and business process management software for Global 1000 enterprises, has signed partnership agreements with BOSS Corp. and Nascent Systems, two providers of high-value Oracle services. The pacts are part of its plan to focus on leveraging partners to facilitate product deployments and accelerate growth in 2004.

BOSS Corp. and Nascent Systems are both systems integrators, helping organizations deploy and optimize Oracle applications and technologies. With the addition of these two partners, joint customers will be able to deploy best practices for document management solutions, meet their business requirements and evolving needs and leverage existing investments in ERP systems.

Under terms of the partnership agreements, BOSS and Nascent will support 170 Systems on consulting and product implementation projects. To complement their efforts, 170 Systems will provide both with training, marketing and technical support.

Cambridge, Mass-based 170 Systems is "a leading provider of software products and services designed to dramatically reduce enterprise costs by streamlining the business processes of large ERP systems, such as Oracle E-Business Suite," the company said in an announcement.

It adds that its 170 MarkView product "is designed to leverage and extend the functionality of existing enterprise applications, for business processes including accounts payable, expense management and records management, by integrating the management of the unstructured data including electronic (EDI, XML, email, etc.) or traditional documents (paper, fax, etc.) into ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications." It has customers in more than 40 countries.

In a separate announcement, 170 Systems announced that 170 MarkView now supports the Linux operating system. 170 Systems' Linux support will allow customers running the Linux operating system to take full advantage of the integration, lower costs and streamlined business processes that its says will result from implementation. Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 is available with 170 MarkView at both the database server and application server tiers.

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