Passageways commits to Canadian Expansion for
Credit Union Employee and Director Portals
West Lafayette, IN. May 8th, 2008 – Passageways, a West Lafayette, Ind.-based portal solutions provider for financial institutions, announces today that it is making the Passageways Portal solution platform available in Canada. Passageways is the leading portal solutions provider for credit unions and the financial industry in Unites States. With over 150 credit union installations, including the Caribbean, this marks the company's further expansion outside the Unites States.
Recently appointed Senior Account Executive, Eric Murphy will be leading the business development in the Canadian credit union industry. Eric bring over 20 years of enterprise sales experience having worked at various organizations including, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and a recent software start-up.
Passageways portal solution is based on Microsoft’s .NET platform and comes with collaboration, communication and knowledge management tools developed with a credit union business user in mind. It is a complete, easy to use portal solution for credit unions and other financial services institutions. Passageways provides world class training, support, professional services and consulting services which makes it a very effective and well adopted solution.
According to Paroon Chadha, Co-Founder/ VP at Passageways, “We have been asked by many credit unions from Canada about our solution and we have finally made a strong commitment to this vibrant market space.” Paroon adds, “This has been long overdue, we waited for the right person to spearhead our business development efforts in Canada and feel confident that Eric will get us the start we need in this market.”
Eric adds, “I have noticed that customers seek the industry specificity and scalability of our solution, and our proven experience in the portal space. Passageways solution offers a cost-effective way for financial organizations to manage complex collaboration challenges. Successful organizations recognize the power of placing relevant and timely information in front of their employees, to improve customer service and we’ll seek such partners in Canada.”
The Passageways web portal solution encompasses all aspects of collaboration and communications, from the flagship portal framework product, to innovative best practice applications. Applications like the simple and secure “Board Portal,” the time saving “Help Desk” module, and Learning & Knowledge Management applications offer even more collaborative functionality to your organization. Passageways offers its solutions in a hosted SAAS model, or in an in-house model.
Passageways is an award winning platform, and has received numerous awards including the 2007 & 2006 Credit Union Journal Best Practice award, recognizing the value added by Passageways in improving credit Union operations, and the 2006 BAI Retail Delivery Conference and Expo’s “Best of Show” recognizing Passageways extraordinary commitment to delivering technology that will further the growth of products and services in the credit union marketplace. Passageways was also given the 2005 CUNA Technology’s best practices award.
To learn more about what Passageways has to offer the Canadian market, or to schedule a demo please contact:
Eric Murphy
Senior Account Executive
Passageways
emurphy@passageways.com
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