ECRIO SELECTS INTRALINK TO DRIVE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN JAPAN PDF Print E-mail
6th January, 2006 - Ecrio, the leading provider of Real Time Communications software for mobile phones, has selected Asia Pacific market access specialists Intralink to provide ongoing business development services in Japan.

The move follows Ecrio’s successful completion of Intralink’s Surrogate Sales Program™ which saw the US company secure a major licensing deal for its Embedded Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) solution with a leading Japanese mobile operator. Ecrio has now established its own Japanese operation but has selected Intralink to provide ongoing business development activities to secure more deals for its solution.

Michel Gannage, Vice President of Business Development at Ecrio said: “We are delighted to establish this relationship with Intralink. With Intralink’s Surrogate™ programme, we are confident Ecrio will be able to expand its presence and capabilities in the Japanese market.”

Intralink CEO James Lawson added: “Ecrio is a leading vendor of Real Time Communication Software for 3G mobile phones and we are proud to have been selected to help them expand their business in Japan. We are committed to provide Ecrio with our SurrogateTM programme, whereby we will supply them with both business development and sales services in the highly competitive Japanese market.”

About Intralink:

Established in 1990, Intralink has a proven record of achieving accelerated market access and revenue traction for venture-backed technology companies – in electronics, IT, software and semiconductors – across the automotive, drug discovery, consumer electronics, construction materials and telecoms sectors.

With offices in the UK, Tokyo and Shanghai, Intralink works for US and European companies seeking success in the strategically important Chinese and Japanese markets.

About Ecrio:

Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Ecrio is the leading vendor of real time communication software for mobile phones. Ecrio provides interoperable and standard compliant software to Mobile Phone Manufacturers and Mobile Operators. Ecrio offers solutions for Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC). Ecrio's customers include Mobile Industry leaders such as NTT DoCoMo, Lucent, NEC and Panasonic. www.ecrio.com