Oracle Corp., headquartered in Redwood Shores (California, USA), is the world’s second-largest software provider with about 70,000 staff in 145 countries. Oracle’s business is information – how to manage it, use it, share it and protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle Corp. has been providing the software and services that help companies get up-to-date and accurate business information. By combining with strategic companies, Oracle strengthens its product offerings – in the fields of database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications and collaboration. With Oracle Corp., companies get information that helps them measure results and improve business processes.

Since it was founded in 1992, Klopotek has exclusively been using Oracle’s database technology to create the databases for all standardized software products. Oracle’s relational database technology, to which new features are regularly being added, has proven to be very efficient and reliable for Klopotek’s software development purposes. It effectively supports Klopotek in the further development of our standardized software products as well as in reacting flexibly to changing customer demands. The partnership, which has been established between Oracle Corp. and Klopotek, is currently being extended to cover software development in the areas of middleware and business intelligence.

arvato systems is a subsidiary of arvato AG, the globally active media service provider for Bertelsmann AG. arvato plans, develops, operates and maintains complex IT systems - all over the world.

arvato systems can point to more than 15 years of experience in designing and optimizing IT systems in the publishing industry. As an additional step, in early 2002 arvato entered into a partnership with Klopotek. Together both partners have already carried out several successful projects for different publishing houses in Germany and Great Britain, Benelux, Sweden and the US. arvato’s services range from introducing and customizing Klopotek solutions to integrating Klopotek software into the SAP landscape and providing user support, management and the full line of ASP services.

To integrate Klopotek Software with SAP financial accounting software, arvato systems develops and maintains SAP Standard Interfaces for Klopotek.

In October 2004 Atypon and Klopotek have formed a collaboration that will empower publishers with a focus on internet based content business, by offering a seamless integration between online distribution of products and backoffice processing.

Since 1996, Atypon has focused on providing software and services to the information industry. Atypon has two electronic publishing services, Atypon Link (the former Extenza service) and Atypon Premium which together with other custom services provide on line content hosting solutions and services to over 60 publishers. These clients include major websites such as Blackwell-Synergy, Annual Reviews, and CrossRef as well as mid-sized commercial and not-for profit publishers. Atypon Link provides a fully managed low-cost e-publishing solution to a growing group of international publishers including Walter de Gruyter, the American Marketing Association, and Thomas Telford. Other Atypon services include PDFplus, which dynamically adds links to PDFs, and LINKplus, a full service linking solution for publishers.

The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with offices in New York and Oxford. For more information on Atypon, please visit http://www.atypon.com

HGV Publishing Services provides book publishers with IT, customer, financial and production services. Exclusive arrangements with premium suppliers make it a full service provider. HGV develops flexible, modular solutions, extending from IT consultancy to complete fulfillment.

HGV is a dependable partner for implementing highly complex IT projects. HGV Publishing Services combines publishing expertise with outstanding IT capabilities and an efficient infrastructure that bundles services in an exemplary way, enabling it to not only handle the entire Holtzbrinck book publishers' IT infrastructure, but also to act as fulfillment provider to publishers in general.

Klopotek and HGV have worked together as longtime partners in selling and running Klopotek software products. HGV has independently operated Klopotek’s software since 1998 and provides support for publishers who use the Klopotek Standard Software for Publishers.

Munich-based Interleave GmbH and Klopotek AG have formed a development partnership, enabling Interleave to continue distribution and further development of its “MobileOrderSystem", which has now been adapted to run the Klopotek standard software for publishers.

Interleave's MobileOrderSystem is a mobile information and order entry system designed to run on laptops. The system capitalizes on the framework of the Klopotek Book Sales and Distribution system. All functionality has been re-developed to be used specifically by book sales representatives and can be easily learned and applied.

With the technical information and support provided by Klopotek, Interleave is able to ensure customers that its MobileOrderSystem will always run with the newest version of the Klopotek Standard Software for Publishers.

Fuzzy! Informatik AG in Ludwigsburg, a specialist in data analysis and ambiguous search, offers solutions for international address management. The integration of FUZZY! into the Klopotek Publishing Solution's address management, duplicate and postal check sections has resulted in international address management becoming a standard in the Klopotek CCM solution. FUZZY! is used within the Klopotek Publishing Solution in Germany, Benelux, Great Britain and the USA.

Business Objects is a global business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 30,000 customers - including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 - and a network of more than 3,000 partners and resellers. Our customers - from small businesses to top international corporations - benefit from the industry's leading BI software, now fully integrated in the Klopotek software by. Klopotek is a Business Objects OEM Gold Partner.

Our new "Klopotek Business Objects Universes" make comprehensive data selections from the extensive Klopotek databases available to Business Objects' analysis and ad-hoc-query tools. Strategic management information about your business becomes availabe through the unique combination of the industry's leading BI standard and the Klopotek Universes.